{"id":7174,"date":"2022-06-24T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:12:59","slug":"weekly-links-06-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-06-24-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links, 06\/24\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Hearing from @nealstephenson what he and team have in mind for a metaverse is the most detailed info I&#8217;ve seen so far of how crypto might be pragmatically useful, at least in games. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesbeat.com\/the-deanbeat-why-neal-stephenson-is-starting-a-metaverse-company-after-3-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\">The DeanBeat: Why Neal Stephenson is starting a metaverse company 3 decades after Snow Crash<\/a><\/li><li>BookTok is a thing that is keeping book publishing going right now. Readers film themselves reading books with emotion or enthusiasm and share on TikTok. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/jun\/08\/lockdown-exploded-tiktok-books-revolution-booktok\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018After lockdown, things exploded\u2019 \u2013 how TikTok triggered a books revolution<\/a><\/li><li>This astounding deep dive into Chinese character nerddom is well worth anyone&#8217;s time. The piece keeps getting bigger. <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewleonard.substack.com\/p\/the-impossible-dictionary-of-truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Impossible Dictionary of Truth<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing from @nealstephenson what he and team have in mind for a metaverse is the most detailed info I&#8217;ve seen so far of how crypto might be pragmatically useful, at least in games. The DeanBeat: Why Neal Stephenson is starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-06-24-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1476],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}