For Season 2, we’re getting tangible on Good Growth by providing funding, support, and expertise for pilot projects submitted by our own wonderful members. To align our collective resources to improve our impact potential, the PRTN Community have just voted on our first mission:
“To bring underrepresented groups into the new economy.”
Out of the 34 submitted, there are 18 pilot projects in this cluster that are using web3 tools to engage with communities that the system neglected, or making it easier for communities from beyond the anglosphere to benefit from the tools and technologies of Web3. The projects include various BIPOC creator communities, organizations working with youth from underserved groups, and projects looking to either showcase and promote diverse cultures, provide translation services for them, or connect them to share strategies to sustainably manage their heritage sites. Next week, our members will be voting on which of these 18 will make the final selection.
In other news, we published our 100 Days a DAO piece, did our first Twitter Space, and we’re a guest on the Seed Club Podcast. We also have the iconic Latashá joining us live next Tuesday in the PRTN Discord, so RSVP below, as it’s going to be a good one 💚
OK, let’s get on with the links …
- Artist G Chiarion wants to know what a co-owned club night might look like
- Tropical Futurism envisions the climate of our fate
- Matt Klein’s Meta Trending Trends is always worth a read
- As is Benedict Evan’s Three Steps to the Future
- An amazing short film on the importance of Impact Networks
- Buy the new Grafik BLACK font and help bring Grafik Magazine back
- The Stack World is a newspaper written by women for women
- Minor Figures have made an internet radio station
- Alternatively, you could tune into forests around the world with Tree FM
- And then have a play around with Treetransitions.earth
- How to develop a planetary consciousness
- Web3 + Foodies = CafeteriaDAO + DinnerDAO
- Interspecies Internet is looking to link non-human species that are not collocated and can use its computational capacity to introduce AI/ML methods to transduce signals from one species into coherent signals for another
- Looking for a new DJ bot for your Discord? Look no further …
- How fast homeware became the new fast fashion
- Is old music killing new music?
- Giulia Tomasello is hacking biotechnology for intimate healthcare with Future Flora and ALMA
- gm Gucci 🙃
- A great article on mental health in DAOs
How to measure growth in the luxury crypto world
Have you ever heard of syntropic materials?
- NEWMODELS, Interdependence and Joshua Citarella have set up Channel, a decentralised media organisation
- Cohere is exploring our relationship between homeownership and location independence
- Nikhil Shah’s Rough Guide to Psychedelics 🍄
- Become a member of the Seed Co-operative
- Moxie discusses first impressions of Web3 and here’s Vitaliks response 👀
- Want to understand why celebrities are buying NFT? Read this …
- Proved just launched a way for you to show off your community role outside of Discord in style
- Make your own Joy Division cover with these generative art tutorials
- The argument in defense of skeuomorphism
- SuperHi’s “Basic Income” initiative received 22,529 applications 🤯
- Proof of Story is reinventing fiction through AI
- If there’s two links you should hit, it’s DA\’s list of things they read in 2021 followed by their reflections of their first year
- The League of Less Work does exactly what you expect
- PRO(TECH)T is helping us reimagine autonomy, identity, and desire in the virtual worlds we inhabit
- RADAR is exploring the future of futures
- Hyper Structures aim to run for free forever without maintenance interruption or intermediaries
- Sign up to this Writing With Nature workshop with Fariha Róisín, who also made this film to help you understand degrowth
- And whilst we’re on the topic, here’s some more on degrowth
- Web3 is coming for the fitness industry
- Destore is the first retail store governed by DAO
- Party Bear is looking for the metaverse 🐻
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THANKS
As announced last month, we’re now giving you the opportunity to earn 500 $PRTN for any link that makes the Protein Supplement. So, a big shoutout to the following folks, we’ll be in touch next week to sort your tokens:
@andrea, @deflestead, @devaughn, @eisuke, @EVI, @hetafell, @katherineolivia, @kohei.eth, @lauren, @marcvs, @mattweatherall, @NA, @nick, @selaserafin, @true, @yetunde, and @yuri
Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚
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