📖 Long Reads: Notable Tech Blogger Reposts 2023 Analysis of TikTok & China, Shares Insights on Credibility of National Security Threat Narrative

As TikTok looks set for an actual shutdown here in the US, it’s hard to separate narrative from noise from useful information. The truth is of course that we just don’t know how this rather unprecedented turn of events will play out.

This piece has a lot more to it than the clickbait predictions and “Trump this, Biden that” articles flooding our media feeds this week.

Whatever your stance on how things ought or ought not proceed, this is truly worth a read. Be ready for a heavy dose of introspection and some surprisingly believable speculation.

From: The Prism, by Gurwinder

If you spent any time over the last few years paying attention to how blockchains (the somewhat cumbersome tech underlying the NFT craze of 2021/2022 and the current poo-poo fart-fart meme coin mania) actually work, you probably wouldn’t be hard to convince that the AI and Crypto worlds are heading for a collision in the near future.

We haven’t seen many meaningful crossover concepts gain much traction yet, but they are definitely percolating — perhaps just waiting for the right moment.

In any case, this longer read from the famous silicon valley venture capitalists, a16z, is a great place to start if you want to see what’s germinating in this likely fertile ground.

From: web3 letter from a16zcrypto