#217

"I don’t fight for legacy. I don’t fight for none of that, I fight for the cheque. I’m in the cheque cashing business.”

This newsletter is an exercise in exploring the intersection of Mind, Money & Machine to see what is spawns. Occasional personal observations.

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Money

jack @jack

Square is acquiring a majority ownership stake in TIDAL through a new joint venture, with the original artists becoming the second largest group of shareholders, and JAY-Z joining the Square board. Why would a music streaming company and a financial services company join forces?!

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Mind

Hyperion @hyperionmag

The overbearing dissatisfaction with 9-5 seems to be the prevalent sentiment amongst the younger generation. @markallanbovair provides a sober analysis of the connection between work and meaning through the lens of experience and personal accomplishment:

hyperionmagazine.comWhy We WorkI’ve seen the modern 9 to 5 job called “barbaric” and “slavery” in the last week alone. It’s like a shot in the back to the millions of hard-working people who get up every morning and head to work to

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Machine

Rick Marshall @rickmarshall

The documentary Welcome to Chechnya (on @hbomax) used face-swapping, deepfake-style visual effects to protect its subjects' identities. I talked to the @welcomechechnya team to learn how & why they did it. You can read the full interview at @DigitalTrends:

digitaltrends.comHBO’s Welcome to Chechnya Found Safety in Face-Swapping VFX | Digital TrendsThe documentary Welcome to Chechnya made creative use of face-swapping visual effects to protect victims of the Russian republic’s antigay purge.