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Remember IRL, the social media startup that faked everything?

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I'm gonna unlock this memory for you. About two years ago, IRL went bust. It was a social media startup which, at some point, raised hundreds of millions of dollars. By 2021, it had reached a valuation of $1.17 billion, which means it was a unicor...

Tech issues. Tech issues everywhere PART II

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Among other things, I have a website that runs on WordPress. It's monetised, which means I make about 2 cents a month. (Kidding, maybe). But that's beside the point, because the point is that WordPress, for whatever reason, has stopped showing ads...

Tech issues. Tech issues everywhere PART I

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

My MacBook is getting on a bit. It's an Air M1 model that I bought about two and a half years ago and overused for two and a half years. Think 70+ tabs regularly kept open across two browsers (Safari and Brave) with media playing in the background,...

What GoPro's (imminent and likely) failure can teach us

28 Jun 2025 1 minute read 10 comments LeftFooted

I don't remember when I first used a camera phone, probably around the mid 2000s. I was still using digital cameras back then but I stopped shortly thereafter because I started to think they were just pointless. By 2010, I was only using digital ca...

GoodBye NOAA-18, You Will Be Missed

28 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

For weather hunters and amateur meteorologists, the American NOAA satellite fleets have been workhorses, providing imaging data to meteorology programs of all types the world over. However, over time, these imaging satellites have grown to become com...

My troubles with 9Front (a Plan 9 fork, with updates)

27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Ay, folks! I'm back from my dry spell of not having anything about which to write. It's time for the wonders of obscure and esoteric operating systems! Today's instalment is 9front, a fork (and update) of Plan 9 from Bell Labs (the people whom brough...

AI x Real Estate: Why the PAI3 and Bixos Partnership Signals a Major Shift in Web3 Ownership

27 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nina Defi

I’ve been watching the evolution of Web3, blockchain, and AI for a while now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: The projects that win are the ones solving real-world problems with decentralized solutions. That’s why the new partnershi...

Humanity Protocol And 2,200,000 Reasons To Yap

26 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments PVM

Humanity Protocol is setting aside 0.2% of its $H token supply, roughly $2.2 million based on the latest valuation, for the most select group of contributors! The most active voices in the ecosystem and  Kaito stakers will share the rewards!  This al...

The Winning Portfolio of Hard Times: Is Structure or Story Important?

26 Jun 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The first half of 2025 was not an ordinary period for investors; it was a complete stress test. Trump's tariffs that he announced one day and then withdrew the next, the Fed's uncertain messages about direction, and the geopolitical risks that escala...

How to Lead the Decentralized AI Movement in Your Language (and Earn While Doing It)

25 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nina Defi

There’s a quiet revolution happening in tech, and it’s not just about smarter AI or faster blockchains. It’s about ownership. The more I learn about the AI space, the clearer it becomes: the future of AI must be transparent, decentralized, and people...