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Welcome to the World of Programmable Assets: NFTs and the Future of Art Investing

It is easy to dismiss the hype and manic speculation surrounding digital non-fungible token (NFT) art assets, but behind the wild stories and headlines is a serious technological change in how assets can be created, sold, and traded. NFTs, often pronounced “nifties,” are serious innovations that have interesting implications for…

Nft

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Welcome to the World of Programmable Assets: NFTs and the Future of Art Investing
Welcome to the World of Programmable Assets: NFTs and the Future of Art Investing

Apr 8

Book Review: 💪 Strongmen 😠

Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat 👍 An excellent book that analysis the “formula” that strongmen (they are always men) like Mussolini and Putin use to rise to power and stay in control. This book is well-researched and relevant at any time, but Strongmen is particularly informative as Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people rages. Putin seems…

Strongmen

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Book Review: 💪 Strongmen 😠
Book Review: 💪 Strongmen 😠

Apr 7

📚 Book Review: Another Now

by Yanis Varoufakis 👍 — Yanis is a famous economist and voice of market-based socialism in the modern world. He has written several interesting books, and I am in the process of reading most of what he has written. Another Now is his first (and perhaps last) work of fiction, one in which he imagines…

Yanis Varoufakis

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📚 Book Review: Another Now
📚 Book Review: Another Now

Apr 4

Book Review: 🇦🇱 Free 🇦🇱

A Child and a Country at the End of History 👍 by Lea Ypi Free is a fascinating memoir told by Le Ypi, who grew up in Albania during the 80s. There she learned about the history of her country, socialism, and soviet-style communism from teachers, friends, and community members who either believed in the state’s propaganda or had to pretend to believe in…

Lea Ypi

3 min read

Book Review: 🇦🇱 Free 🇦🇱
Book Review: 🇦🇱 Free 🇦🇱

Apr 3

Is my life’s work slowly being erased by the Internet?

I learned a valuable lesson in high school when a paper that I had saved to my computer (an Apple IIe) was lost. With a typing speed hovering around 10 words a minute, it was painful. Since that experience, I have backed up my data and made sure I knew…

Digital Media

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Is my life’s work slowly being erased by the Internet?
Is my life’s work slowly being erased by the Internet?

Mar 4

📚 Book Review: Termination Shock 🥵

by Neal Stephenson Many people are currently discovering Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash, a novel from 20 years ago in which he described the metaverse. Stephenson has an uncanny ability to see where technology is going in his books and often predicts the future with great accuracy. For example, ransomware attacks were…

Neal Stephenson

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📚 Book Review: Termination Shock 🥵
📚 Book Review: Termination Shock 🥵

Mar 3

🎧 Audio Book Review: The Chancellor 🇩🇪

The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton This book tells the fantastic story of Angela Merkel as told by her official biographer. It covers her family history (growing up in East Germany), her rise to political power, and her years as Germany’s Chancellor; many of those years spent…

Merkel

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🎧 Audio Book Review: The Chancellor 🇩🇪
🎧 Audio Book Review: The Chancellor 🇩🇪

Mar 3

📚 Book Review: Profit and Punishment 👨‍⚖️

How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice 👍 — by Tony Messenger There has always been a high cost to being poor — renting instead of owning, payday loans instead of credit, and purchasing one meal at a time instead of the month’s groceries. If you or I are arrested, we will make bail and return home. We have…

Book Review

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📚 Book Review: Profit and Punishment 👨‍⚖️
📚 Book Review: Profit and Punishment 👨‍⚖️

Mar 2

🍿Must Watch: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) 🤴🏾

An amazing feat of cinematography, The Adventures of Prince Achmed is one of the first full-length animated films ever produced (it is the only surviving one, two others were lost). Produced using a silhouette animation technique, this film took three years to film, each frame an individual shot (24 frames…

Animation

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Mar 2

🇺🇦 Free-Range Ukraine 🇺🇦

In April of 2019, I had the opportunity to visit Sumy National Agrarian University and Sumy State University in Sumy, Ukraine. It was a whirlwind tour, meeting with students and faculty from both institutions and at a Youth Forum in Trostyanets. All the people I met were energetic and ready…

Ukraine

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🇺🇦 Free-Range Ukraine 🇺🇦
🇺🇦 Free-Range Ukraine 🇺🇦
J Scott Christianson

J Scott Christianson

UM Teaching Prof, Technologist & Entrepreneur. Connect with me here: https://www.christiansonjs.com/

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