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Axie Infinity’s financial mess started long before its $600 million hack

The Verge

Combining the freewheeling hype market of crypto with the complicated economic workings of a massively multiplayer game, Axie Infinity’s in-game world has spent months trying to avert a financial crisis. Even if the game can overcome the recent challenge of the hack, Sky Mavis hasn’t proven it can transition out of that phase.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

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The key to making sound, big decisions is to ground them in real-world, vetted, unprejudiced, unadulterated data. As an application service provider with roots that stretch back to the early days of the Web, we've been through several phases of change and development. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

Cupi says it’s in a growth-focused phase at present so is not seeking to make chunky margin on resales. While if Twig ends up being unable to sell an item it says it donates the goods to charity rather than binning them to avoid sending stuff to landfill because that’s bad for the environment.

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Three things Web3 should fix in 2022

The Verge

Even so, many viewers will find it a necessary corrective to crypto’s multi-year hype cycle, with seems to accelerate daily with each new corporate NFT release , celebrity Bored Ape purchase reveal , and surprise token airdrop. The infrastructure phase.”. All of which is to say: you should watch it. DAOs trying things!

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The new class of CEOs at Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile

The Verge

The company has focused largely on millimeter-wave technology, which blows away LTE in sheer performance, but it hasn’t yet delivered on the second phase of that 5G plan to solve for the coverage dilemma. Here’s a long transcript of him hyping up the beleaguered OS in 2006.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

Non Profit Quarterly

When the existential risk narrative pushes for governments to invest in safety and regulation for future AGI but not todays AI, that sounds to me like refusing to call the fire department to extinguish your burning roof, because you want to install a better burglar alarm first. The burglars not here and may never arrive.

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Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

TechCrunch

Moreover, in recent years, hype about claimed environmental benefits from making tweaks to existing agricultural processes has seen the buzzy badge of ‘regenerative’ keenly taken up by some of the biggest names in (junk) food production, from PepsiCo to McDonalds. Some of this hype has — frankly — been unbelievable.

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