Chaos & Amazement #2426 🇪🇺 Digital Identity Wallet, One Million Checkboxes, and the Hawk Tuah Girl
This week's newsletter dives into the world of digital identity wallets, French AI, and a hilarious NSFW meme taking TikTok by storm.
Tech News
The EU is working on a Digital Identity Wallet for citizens to use across Europe by 2030. It'll let people store and share ID, licenses, and other docs on their phones. Meant to be secure, private, and work in all EU countries. I think it's a great idea! https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/23/the-eu-digital-identity-wallet-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-eus-plans-for-a-universal-digital-identity-system/
Paris-based https://www.tengo.cc, centralizing French government tenders, raised €3m led by Point Nine. It’s already handled diverse projects, from Olympics condoms to Versailles renovations, using AI to help businesses find and assess opportunities.
Scientists made a robot face with living human skin! It moves naturally and could self-heal, but some might find the idea creepy.
Fresh AI
An AI generated video version of Justin Timberlake’s DUI mugshot:
Weird and Wonderful
One Million Checkboxes It has a million checkboxes on it. Checking a box checks it for everyone. https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
Oslo's new tourist ad skips the happy faces and uses funny, understated jokes to show why their city's cool.
A hilarious TikTok blew up this week: a cute girl in a late-night interview gives a ridiculously funny (and messy!) answer about keeping a man. And this is how the Hawk Tuah meme was born. Here’s the full context in the original YouTube video: