🔗 Inspiring bits #6 → Promoting the four-day week.
🔗 Inspiring bits #6 → Promoting the four-day week.
Also, a platform full of resources on Future Studies, understanding microaggressions, and more.
🗓️ How to promote the four-day week? This is THE BEST content I've seen about this. Seriously. With Stephen Fry and a whole of host of brilliant animators, this film present research into the benefits of the four-day week in a visually appealing, accessible and playful way. → Watch the “Change the Week” film. (I'll embed this one).
🥸 Once, the cool thing was to be famous on Social Media. Now the Web is walking through a path where it's cooler when nobody knows your name. → The Personal Brand Is Dead. Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.
🤖 AI art, specifically DALL-E mini, is trending. The AI text-to-image creation tool can be used to generate pictures - and paintings - of anything. I created paintings of people I don't like looking like clowns. But people chose to make all kinds of memes. → “Why tho” Issue #23: AI is giving hot boyfriend energy (Great convo and cursed memes)
🕶️ New AR/VR headsets are coming. Less than 24 hours after Google shared a small preview of its in-development AR glasses, Mark Zuckerberg shared a 56-second clip to his Facebook page, giving users a "first look at mixed reality." But apparently the design is top secret. → The return of Google Glass? Google gives us a peek at its new AR glasses & Mark Zuckerberg shares pixelated preview of Meta's upcoming VR headset.
👁 👄 👁 Language is framed and reframed by culture, and the Internet presents us with new words, slangs, reappropriation and re-significations of language all the time. Emoji is one of these. → Defining gen z emoji language.
🗯️ Microaggressions are hard to identify. It's common to feel that something is not right, but it's hard to explain why. Now there's a resource to learn more about microaggressions and their impact. → Meet The Micropedia.
📷 This is cool → Someone (Emily Galvin-Almanza) on Twitter opened a box from her grandmother's basement and found a picture named "Jack's Photos Of Atom Bomb". Along with it, she found a whole photo collection of when her great uncle went to visit an atomic reactor.
🔎 While we don't yet have the answers as to how to make sure Web 3 is a safe space, by asking the right questions, we will be on the right path as we continue to navigate the digital world. → The Long Road to Addressing Digital Safety in the Metaverse.
👜 Meta is trying hard to expand their virtual world, adding new collaborations with fashion brands to launch their own avatar store. Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne will be the first brands to join. The public is not being so receptive, as we can see just by reading the comments in this post (thanks Luisa). → Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes are the first products
🚨 Job alert! I'm looking for a YouTube expert with SEO experience to work with me on a YouTube-focused project for the Brazilian market. Therefore, speaking Portuguese is a requirement. Send me a note if you want to talk about it or recommend someone.
🏆 It's award's season. In person! The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity convenes in person from June 20-24 on the French Riviera, after a two-year COVID-19 hiatus. → Insider is making a live coverage here. You can also check your LinkedIn timeline, it's now full of “I'm excited to announce my idea won a lion” posts. And a protest JUST happened.
🔮 New resources alert! Theme: Future studies. → Future Resources is an independent initiative led by foresight strategist Lydia Caldana that aims at decolonizing, demystifying and democratizing futures and access to futures content. And it was relaunched full of different resources like study materials, communities, courses, events and more. (thanks Isabela for the tip).
Ending with something to think about. Have a nice week!
