[SIC] Sundays #4: Recollection Machine

Volume 1, Number 4

Above the Great Salt Lake s/o @jimmangan

This Sunday night scramble is weirdly edifying. Links in no particular order. Enjoy and have a great week, all.

Ben

======[SIC Sundays #4: Recollection Machine======

• Sleep tight!!! The Supreme Court is primed to make it legal for border agents to enter someone’s home if you’re 100 miles from any border, including oceans. This is psychotic. TikTok(?!) via The Trend Report

• Remote learning apps shared children’s data at a ‘dizzying scale’. / WaPo via Weak signals and other trends

• Down the rabbit hole into Defense tenders. /Defence Tenders Exposed via Weak signals and other trends

• While Facebook's bad ad problem refuses to go away with another hate speech scandal / The Drum

• Corollary: the Human Voice Can Communicate 24 Emotions / Greater Good via Weak Signals and other trends

• Influence v control: the morals of behavioral marketing/ The Drum

• "The way something appears or makes you feel no longer matters so much, and images have been so hollowed out by escalating repetition, so debased, that an utterly tasteless image can become extremely valuable in ways that can hardly be comprehended." The Downward Spiral: Taste, Figures, Images / Spike Art Mag via Public Announcement

• Elsewhere, has the pitch deck run out of runway? / Courier

• Also, apparently being “fashionably late” is not a thing anymore b/c Covid / NYT via Hyperallergic

• But counterintuitively, Nike Run Club is ending in China / Jing Daily

• Separately, Spotify Is Conducting Paid Interviews About Its NFT Test Program / Digital Music News via The Cadence

• What now for the art world and NFTs after the crypto crash? / The Art Newspaper

• Look for a job?! The Art Newspaper is looking for an associate editor in NYC / The Art Newspaper

• Hollywood won’t bat an eye at the prospect of a recession, but viewers might / Future Party

• Meanwhile, A.I. gurus are leaving Big Tech to work on buzzy new start-ups / CNBC

• But, but: You Won't Use That Cool Feature / NYT

• Hence: Why crypto companies are focused on billboards for brand awareness, legitimacy / Digiday

• Emma Chamberlain on Brand Deals, Making Ads That Work and Her Inability to Act Adweek

• Related: can Billie Eilish convince fans to shop better? Her new tour includes the Overheated climate event, with clothes swaps, activist talks and big names including Dame Vivienne Westwood and Tori Tsui.

• Nicole McLaughlin’s designs are no joke / NYT

• Corollary: how to make a music video for KH (Four Tet) in ten days using extinct coding software. Utilising taxingly primitive equipment, GOAT creative type Trevor Jackson ran through two laptops and a strange combo of programs to pull these visuals together / It’s Nice That

• Also corollary: How Rap’s Wild New Underground Reinvented Itself. SoundCloud rap didn’t die. It reinvented itself. Here’s how a new generation revived rap’s wild new underground scene. / Complex via Music Redef.

• Related to that: Open Mike Eagle on Capturing Hip-Hop's Oral History . His podcast 'What Had Happened Was' is an enchanting and illuminating appreciation of hip-hop. / Pop Matters via Music Redef.

• Speaking of being there: The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing. Playing games on the new Xbox app made for TVs feels like a big deal. There's no console and no hidden HDMI streaming device / The Verge

• RTFKT Teases New Web3 Fragrance Collaboration With Byredo The project hopes to “apply NFT magic” to the luxury fragrance space / Hypebeast

• Hypebeast is teaming up with Popshop Live to find a “personality” to host a new shoppable livestream series / Hypebeast via After School

• Related: a “How To” Guide to Tiktok’s new bitmoji-esque avatars. In Short: To get started, open the effects section in the TikTok app and search for the Avatar effect / Adweek via Marcus Bosch

• TikTok: announced a tool to let people set reminders for themselves to take a break from the app / CNET

• But maybe the killer app of the metaverse will be more like TikTok than Fortnite / Protocol

• Also, is beefalo the meat of the future? NPR via 1440

• Related?! How to get canceled while fundraising for animals / Medium

• Liquid Death’s blind taste test might make you vomit / The Drum

• Similarly: a Caviar Bump…Then a Pickle Bump…Then a Hot Cheetos Bump / Mel

• The inverse of the caviar bump in Heinz’ Dip & Crunch, “a product that offers consumers the ability to dip their burgers into a sauce and then chips.” / Business Wire via Lorem Ipsum

• To that end: MoMA does a deep dive on bodegas / IG via Ruby Dispatch

• Corollary, as it relates to product-market fit: James Joyce as Entrepreneur / FT

• To that end: want VC money for your startup? Make your employees come to work. Some VCs are investing only in startups that require in-person work / Protocol

• Matthew Ball tweeted: “Bought something from The Gap recently, using my receipts email address. Look at this absolute non-sense short termism and, essentially, hatred for the customer.” He’s not wrong / Twitter via The Lindy Newsletter

• Also nonsense and audience-loathing: Facecebook gives gun sellers 10 strikes before ban “Your gun news of the week. Shots and chasers.” / WaPo via The Trend Report

• The Twitter and meme doll of the week was this account [@weirddalle ], which aggregates and shares very strange and appealing AI art. “Gender reveal 9/11” and “capitol attack minions” are personal faves of The Trend Report from whence this news arrived. / Twitter

• Also dubious in the extreme: Shein has launched a $50 million fund to tackle waste that many see as greenwashing / BoF

• Related: The coyote’s anguish / Seth Godin

• Corollary: From the land of the #cancelled: Charlie Rose mounts his comeback. Will anyone watch? / Airmail

• Unrelated: Geico has been ordered to pay $5.2 million to a Missouri woman who said she contracted HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, after having sex in a car that was insured by the company. / via Morning Brew

• Business talk about "diversity" can be counterproductive /Pyscnet via Marginal Revolution

======[SIC Sundays #4: Recollection Machine======