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Understanding Film Tax Write-Offs & Some Solutions
Also: OpenAI's Sora & Process, Finishing Work, and English Teacher
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Act 2 is About Context, Not Conflict
Also: Good vs Bad Preservation, NFT Compression Vandalism, and Thinner Books
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Media Saturation & Having Media Speak For Us
Also: Why Dune Feels Massive, NY Restaurant Reservations, and Honouring Your Work
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NFTs Can't Die
The Past and Future in the Present. Also: Fake Steakhouses, The WGA Deal, and more Ambient Music
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Evaluating Prediction Markets
Also: Exercise Paradox, Olympics, and Orchestral Beck
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Nouns, Delivery At Dawn, and Collectible Media
Also: Mystery in World Building, When Is Your Audience, and Some Cool New Art
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From Social LLM Agents with Wallets to Self-Owning Forest Deodands
Also: Houthaven, Inelastic Cities, and a Neutral House of Sortition
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The Process of Making Something Heavy
Also: Space Admin, Red-Chip Art, and Deepmind Disney Droids
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What is Programmable IP Licensing Good For?
Also: Hotel Backrooms, Doom Diffusion, and Lounge House
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From AI Ghibli to Rebuilding our Tribes
Also: Stoop Coffee, Antimemetics, and Music Industry Infrastructure
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The Artification of Culture
A response to Ted Chiang on AI. Also: Hanging Out and Simulacra, Music Data, and Hermanos Guttierez
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Owning the Memes of Production
What Memecoins Can Teach Us of Access to Ownership. Also: GPU Organs, Rings of Power S2, and Builder’s Remedy
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