[nonostantement #100!] - fashion++ / queen of shitty robots / elements of ai
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[Video] [In Italian] - DJ Balli: la vera novità non la creano i colossi dello streaming
“La musica elettronica è dominata dai brand, come la moda e l’arte contemporanea”[Video] - Soviet modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism.
"Short film in support of the upcoming book Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism. Buildings and Projects in Ukraine 1960–1990 (Osnovy Publishing / DOM publishers)."The economics of streaming is making songs shorter
"Why are songs getting so much shorter? Streaming is one the most likely culprits."Fashion++: Minimal Edits for Outfit Improvement
"Fashion++ offers a spectrum of edits for each outfit, from which users can choose their desired version: from changing less to improving fashionability more."How I Eat For Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Instagram
"I reach out restaurants in the area either via Instagram’s direct messaging or email and offer to post a review to my followers in return for a free entree or at least a discount. Almost every restaurant I’ve messaged came back at me with a compensated meal or a gift card."What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%? — Benedict Evans
"Amazon is a big company. But how big? Numbers of hundreds of billions of dollars are thrown around, but is that big in relation to, say, US retail? What should we compare it to?"Fav Photos Found In 2019: 64 Photos By 64 Photographers
"Just to clarify, not all of these photos were captured this past year (many were), however they’re all images we discovered over the past 12 months"Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown
"YouTuber Simone Giertz gave up wildly popular but barely functioning machines and confronted her fears of imperfection (while facing her own mortality and making an awesome Truckla EV)."[In Italia] - Nick Land, un ex accelerazionista alla corte della Neo-Cina
"[...] la Neo Cina – in realtà – sottovaluta la forza e il potere del Partito comunista, poco disposto a farsi sostituire in futuro non solo da un’altra organizzazione politica umana, ma perfino da quella super Intelligenza Artificiale che per molti costituisce una naturale evoluzione del nostro mondo."Desperate Beijing drivers marrying people for their licence plates
"City authorities ration the number of plates that allow people to use their cars in the capital as part of efforts to tackle pollution and congestion"'I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump': a conversation with the Zuckerbot
"Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it"GifCities
"The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine from the Internet Archive"It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
"ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race."[In Italian] - Abbiamo fatto ascoltare il rap italiano della vecchia scuola a un dodicenne
"O io son piccolo e non li capisco o sono loro che sono vecchi"This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened
"Mariana Mazzucato has demonstrated that the real driver of innovation isn't lone geniuses but state investment. Now she's working with the UK government, EU and UN to apply her moonshot approach to the world's biggest challenges"Elements of AI
"The Elements of AI is a series of free online courses created by Reaktor and the University of Helsinki. We want to encourage as broad a group of people as possible to learn what AI is, what can (and can’t) be done with AI, and how to start creating AI methods."London’s electric buses are getting fake noise, and it’s positively psychedelic
"From next year, some of London’s electric buses will play artificial noise while traveling at low speeds, and the specific sound that’s been created for them is an ambient treat for the ears. The noise was created by Zelig Sound, which has been working with Transport for London on the audio over the past year."
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