Curated Commons // Edition 163
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When an influencer takes over your town?
What happens if an individual becomes everything that defines a small town? The case of Mr.Beast and Greenville - Read here ($)
Generative AI, but for new questions for which there are no easy answers
What happens when powerful tools that can mess with an individual’s life are easily available to kids? Who’s to blame for the outcome? - Read here ($)
An indicator of how important Twitter grew to be
Before it all started hurtling down…HBO’s bosses used secret accounts to troll TV critics! - Read here
The world is graying. Africa is blooming
Africa is young and growing. And that will impact far beyond Africa. - Read here ($)
Science, FTW
Dengue rates drop after releasing modified mosquitoes in Columbia. - Read here
Is that a media firm, or a trading firm?
A new trading firm that will do “investigative journalism”, trade on it, and then release the “news”. The times we live in! - Read here ($)
Who will end up “controlling” AI?
Meta’s chief scientist thinks DeepMind and other companies are trying to do regulatory capture of AI. - Read here
The tech obsession with logistics appears to be easing
More companies hiving off their ill-advised logistics divisions. Earlier Affirm/Shopify, and now Paypal. - Read here
Apple always knew!
…that friends don’t let friends buy Android devices! Apple presentation from 2013 - Read here
When social media devalues that which is core to your brand
Big, expensive brands are going to struggle to respond to this new trend that, in a way, de-stigmatizes wearing a duplicate version. And very conveniently, it originates on TikTok, a company that's from a country that has a lot of companies that might benefit if this trend takes off! - Read here
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