The West End Phoenix, a four-year-old community newspaper in Toronto, bills itself as “slow print for fast times”—a reaction against global forces that have been decimating local journalism, if not an analog way of life altogether.
“I bemoaned to Richard that we were having trouble getting our bitcoin activated,” Bidini said the other day, referring to Richard Berman, an occasional Phoenix contributor who’d previously covered Silicon Valley for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Anthony Di Iorio, one of the co-founders of Ethereum, is a Toronto native, and, as it happens, is in the midst of a transition toward philanthropic endeavors that extend to combatting misinformation and other problems engendered by faulty business models.
Di Iorio sat in a futuristic white swivel chair with a couple of talismans hanging from chains around his neck, one of them given to him by the organizers of Burning Man and the other by a Costa Rican shaman.
“In Toronto, pedestrian safety’s a big issue, so slowing down is something we want people to do, and our whole thing about print journalism is about slowing down,” she said.
A lot of times, things go up in a cycle and then come back down again.
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