You should read (Feb 11)

Top articles from my Pocket reading list, the week of February 7, 2022.

The Toxic Tech-Finance Axis

• SEC Issues Investigative Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities (US Securities and Exchange Commission—from back in 2017!)
• People are selling themselves their own NFTs to drive up prices, report finds (NBC News)
• Bored Apes, BuzzFeed and the Battle for the Future of the Internet (Vice)
• How Cryptocurrency Revolutionized the White Supremacist Movement (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• The Internet turned “money” into a hobby (Vox)
• That broken tech/content culture cycle (Anil Dash)
• The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now (The Atlantic)

Everything Else

• The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours To Complete (Kotaku)
• The Tricky Art of Translation and Maria Dahvana Headley’s Modern Beowulf (Tor.com)
• From the Computer Comes a Stranger: CGI Luke Skywalker and the Obsession with Nostalgia (Eleven-Thirtyeight)
• Librarian's lament: Digital books are not fireproof (ZDNet)
• France’s Executed ‘Examples’ (Tribune)
• Forget Your Carbon Footprint. Let's Talk About Your Climate Shadow. (MIC)