Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363026/ephemera-xmtp-fu…
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/busines
I love the non-profit block of the Art Fair, I love to go and argue with the anti-tax people and the Mars society dweebs, to glare at the Republicans, to donate to Planned Parenthood and some of the off-brand religions, to smile and wave and loudly greet the communists HI COMMUNISTS!!! They always wave back. It is such a welcoming feeling!
I’ve been twice already today, once with four grandchildren who collected tons of swag and were cute as hell.
"SunCable to supply solar and storage to data centers by 2028"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
MagicMirror: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Artifacts Assessment in Text-to-Image Generation
Jia Wang, Jie Hu, Xiaoqi Ma, Hanghang Ma, Yanbing Zeng, Xiaoming Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10260
Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – #CreativeLife https://thecreativeindependent.…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Murder Capital:
🎵 That Feeling
#MurderCapital
https://themurdercapital.bandcamp.com/track/that-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/6XLThWXomOWtPER9db89n8
Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/hike-once-…
Musician YATTA on going towards the unknown https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-yatta-on-going-towards-…