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Are we friends on BeReal yet? The anti-"success theater" social media app prompts users to post during a random, two-minute time increment each day and doesn't allow uploads, editing, or any of that highly scripted social behavior we've seen take over social networks like Instagram.

It's a fun experiment in pushing against the tension of authenticity in modern social. And even with multiple crashes and down days, more of my network is joining week after week.

I’m @gregswan if you want to be real with me.

🐦 SOME GOOD SOCIALS

Greg Swan @gregswan

This is a real ad I was served from Pfizer today

April 29th 2022

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Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth @jowyang

Future trend to watch for: Metaverse avatars (many which will be NFTs) will be powered by AI engines, and walk and talk on their own, with their own personalities.

May 1st 2022

3 Retweets37 Likes

Jurassic Park Updates @JurassicPark2go

One of our dinosaurs is going on tour (he escaped)

April 30th 2022

2,876 Retweets30,020 Likes

benahorowitz.eth @bhorowitz

1/First some news, we are joining Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter and investing $400MM into the company.

May 5th 2022

2,548 Retweets28,722 Likes

neeraj arora @neerajarora

In 2014, I was the Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp. And I helped negotiate the $22 billion sale to Facebook. Today, I regret it. Here’s where things went wrong:

May 4th 2022

8,605 Retweets32,897 Likes

TonyVT SkarredGhost @SkarredGhost

Impressive reconstruction of the full body of a person from a single photo by Google Research! phorhum.github.io #VirtualReality #augmentedreality #metaversePhotorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothingphorhum.github.io

April 24th 2022

7 Retweets25 Likes

Every Sheriff Bot @EverySheriff

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 🤠 　 🤠🤠🤠 🤠 🤠　🤠 👇 🤠🤠 👇 　 🤠　🤠 　 🤠　 🤠 　 👢 👢 howdy. i'm the sheriff of cowboy hat face

May 5th 2022

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Greg Swan @gregswan

👀 —> “the resistance we’re seeing today is entirely a Western one. And meaning that it typically comes from the U.S. and some European places. But you know, in Asia, nobody has resistance towards NFTs or digital property rights in their games…” venturebeat.com/2022/04/28/ani…Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu: The big picture view of blockchain gamesDid you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands, believes that blockchain and decentralization will revolutionize gaming. But the mainstream gamers who are supposed to benefit from it haven’t been very rece…venturebeat.com

April 30th 2022

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🔥 QUICK HITS

• The 2022 Snap Partner Summit: Heavier Than Ever on AR

• TikTok launches #MentalHealthAwareness month initiatives

• Spotify becomes first music streamer to launch on Roblox

• Meta’s Reality Labs posts $2.9B loss: ‘I recognize it’s expensive,’ says Zuck

• Meta Plans to Launch Four New VR Headset Types Over the Next Two Years

• Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts

• Twitter Launches Public Test of ‘Circles’ for Private Chats via Tweet

• 3 Key Shifts That Will Shift the Future of Influencer Marketing

• Apple won 50 Patents yesterday that covered Interactive Motion-Based Eye Tracking for Glasses, HMDs and PC's

• The First Commercial Brain Computer Interface Is Entering Human Trials

• Gen Z spends half its waking hours on screen time. Here’s the good and bad news for Hollywood

• Internet Toy of the Week: Infinite Macintosh

• Technology I Kind of Want to Preorder of the Week: Playdate

• TikTok of the Week: i am literally so confused about what “””office jobs””” entail

See you on the internet!
Greg

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