.@evabeylin knows crypto as both an investor and a builder.
As an investor, she's part of the amorphous investment collective known as eGirl Capital, and on the building side, she's the director of The Graph Foundation trib.al/EFjHKd9
For @evabeylin, a true Web3 app is "open, permission-less, and decentralized."
She explains more of her projects and what things look like in this current moment on #OddLotstrib.al/EFjHKd9
What happened to Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily is starting to look less like an exception and more like a template for Beijing's crackdown trib.al/AzbnZhL
In June 2021, when 500 police officers showed up at Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily, China revealed just how far it's willing to go to stamp out its opposition—and increasingly opposition isn't just limited to the media trib.al/AzbnZhL
The government made sure, when it moved against Apple Daily, that there was no way for it to survive.
Within days, the paper’s parent company Next Digital had been forced into a kind of state-sponsored bankruptcy trib.al/AzbnZhL
The cattle industry and rainforest destruction are inextricably intertwined. While Brazilian beef makes its way to plates around the world, the Amazon is paying the price.
The world’s biggest beef producer, JBS, markets itself as a friend of the environment and says it’s committed to ridding its supply chain of animals born or raised on deforested land in the Amazon trib.al/5QAmrf9
But the beef industry’s aggressive expansion is overwhelmingly responsible for the rainforest’s destruction, and JBS has bought more cattle coming out of the biome than any other company trib.al/5QAmrf9
NEW: Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is now hiring a clinical trial director, an indication that the company’s longstanding goal of implanting chips in human brains is coming closer trib.al/ERnmimF
Neuralink’s brain implant is intended to help treat a variety of neurological disorders, such as paralysis.
Musk has said it already allows monkeys to play video games with their thoughts alone trib.al/ERnmimF
The job description for the position, based in Fremont, California, promises that the applicant will “work closely with some of the most innovative doctors and top engineers” as well as with “Neuralink’s first Clinical Trial participants” trib.al/ERnmimF
Hong Kong orders the culling of thousands of hamsters, closes shops selling them and sends more than 100 pet shop visitors into quarantine as part of its increasingly fervent quest to eliminate the virus trib.al/qGzQvjd
The escalation came after nearly a dozen hamsters imported from the Netherlands and sold at a local pet store in Hong Kong were found to be infected with delta, a virulent Covid-19 variant that hadn’t been detected in the city for months trib.al/Ch761Ec
All pet shops selling hamsters in Hong Kong — in total 34 — were ordered to shut down immediately pending further testing and cleaning, while people who recently bought hamsters were to turn the animals over to authorities for culling trib.al/GTNosYK
Consumer demand is reaching new heights, paving a path to pull the economy out of its pandemic funk.
But problems on the supply side are reaching new heights too — revealing obstacles at every step of the way trib.al/cz5mGzW
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have become the most essential gateways for the American economy, accounting for almost 40% of U.S. imported goods.
Now, congestion is wreaking havoc on the global supply chain trib.al/cz5mGzW