Open call for Cypherpunk Camp - who’s coming? To open, secure & free internets!
Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahd.bsky.social
Constant learner, infinite game player, investor, community builder, Londoner (for now)🍃🌲 commonmagic.xyz
Book of the summer If you have any interest in how ideas spread (or don’t) online, taboos, cozy web & the deterioration of social networks, check it out @metalabel.bsky.social @nayafia.bsky.social nayafia.substack.com/p/introducin...
Excellent practical talk on content moderation in decentralised systems @kuehlewindt.com @radicle.xyz at @protocol.berlin
Humans can do hard things (esp if their rep as a nation state is at stake) Lightroom immersive doc on walking on the moon in 1969 🚀
deluged by people telling me they’ve stopped using coaches/therapists & instead use Claude (feel so old fashioned for just telling a friend) and people telling me they’re retraining as coaches quite funny ♾️
My very favourite xkcd in @powen.net talk making the case for more investment in digital public infrastructure 🔥
Tarot; yet another way humans try to make sense of themselves + the future Nice little show @warburginstitute.bsky.social on history + cards through the ages
you can just build things (towns) inspired by the popup city movement + building environments for thought - great @patrickoshag.bsky.social pod with @devonzuegel.com open.spotify.com/episode/4Xci...
Devon Zuegel: How To Create A New Town - [Invest Like the Best, EP.413]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Episode
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Developers Developers Developers I'll be speaking about tldraw.computer at this new London event lu.ma/fydqvtm0 Hosted by @sarahd.bsky.social + @auchenberg.bsky.social + @scalingdevtools.bsky.social come say hi
Developers Developers Developers @ London · Luma
Developers Developers Developers is a new event for startup founders, builders, and investors focused on creating tools and products for developers. If you’re…
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Londoners - interested in how value accrues to the data layer & what AI means for culture & copyright? / speaking at this fun event on Friday with @afterlife.bsky.social + others. Come join! t.co/ZOSQUSmD2E
Winter break reads Building virtual worlds, sci-fi, startup excess + women’s takes on the city. Sounds about right
Back in the 70s, an artist buried a gold hare & published a kids book full of clues to where he hid it. A longread from imho the golden era of the genre (‘10s) on this gorgeous personal site www.planetslade.com/masquerade.h...
Here’s a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a high-quality transfer of Ricky Jay’s 1996 HBO card magic special, “to date the greatest card magic special ever produced, directed by David Mamet of all people”. [kottke.org]
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has uploaded an HBO magic special by Ricky Jay that has been largely unavailable since it aired in 199
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Hey! Longread* lovers. What’s the best thing you’ve read this year? Stocking up for break. * all formats accepted, including tweets, books, podcasts.
If you have any interest in early technology or computer history (50s-90s) you need to go to the Tate’s Electric Dreams show (London)
Finishing raising @commonmagic.bsky.social & wrote up some notes to self on persuading ppl to back something new + weird. Extremely happy rn. sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/raising-comm...
Raising Common Magic I
Yesterday I did final close on Common Magic I. I’ve had a few other first-time funds ask for advice; this is a piece for them (and you, if…
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This year I got really into this little moody Irish band open.spotify.com/track/5XOmmO...
Blue
NewDad · Blue · Song · 2020
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Fascinating how little art there is about lockdown - like we collectively decided to just forget it. Bucking the trend - loved this doc. If only they could just stage Hamlet & stop being killed by other players…
kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y agoGrand Theft Hamlet is a documentary about staging a production of Hamlet within Grand Theft Auto. [kottke.org]
Can you think of any examples of this style of retro graphic using a laptop vs PC? (Are laptops too flat to be aesthetically cool?)
You think fur coats are no longer a ~thing~ in these enlightened times but I’m telling you they’re alive & thriving on flights to Zurich 🙃
On what design IS (always + now)🤌 loved this Design as obsession, conviction, orchestration + literacy. Ways of being + seeing "When deeply held opinions drive your work, they shine through ... + are unique to you—in art, design, product, or company" t.co/UWg7zP9JCO
https://www.terrain.com/design-literacy
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Spotify reaches $100bn market cap the same day lacklustre unwrapped (where’s the personality?) shows impact of layoffs. Reminder markets are their own thing & often uncorrelated to value consumers (let alone creators) derive from a company