Vidiots Lives in Eagle Rock!

from The LA Times Beloved video store Vidiots is set to reopen. How Rian Johnson and others are helping By MARK OLSEN Vidiots, the long-running L.A. video store, is reopening in Eagle Rock with a restored movie theater. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) When Vidiots,...

Casino Twitch

from WIRED Twitch Streamers Rake in Millions With a Shady Crypto Gambling Boom The company says it is “closely monitoring gambling content,” but legal experts told WIRED that some promotions may be illegal. by CECILIA D’ANASTASIO One attorney who specializes in...

NFT Boom

from The Observer NFTs Generated $2.5 Billion in Sales in the First Half of 2021, New Reports Indicate By Helen Holmes A truck parked outside of Christie’s displays a CryptoPunk NFT on May 11, 2021 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images According to...

More Neanderthal Art

from artnet Scientists Say an Intricately Carved 51,000-Year-Old Deer Bone Is the Earliest Example of Neanderthals’ Artistic Abilities The bone was unearthed at the mouth of the Unicorn Cave in Germany. by Caroline Goldstein A 51,000-year-old deer bone with symbolic...

Spoilage Alert

from The Atlantic The Internet Is Rotting Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. By Jonathan Zittrain Getty / Valerie Chiang Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently...

Hollywood Blockchain

from The Observer The Hidden Value Hollywood Hopes to Unlock With NFTs By Brandon Katz Hollywood hopes to unlock the hidden value in NFTs. Pixabay We live in an increasingly interconnected digital world that has altered the very ways in which we communicate, work,...