[nonostantement #102] - russian little mermaid / openstreetmap haikus / spotify & your emotions
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#PEOPLE
Diplo Is Workin' 5 to 9
"He survived the EDM boom, has courted countless controversies, and against long odds, somehow reinvented himself as a perfect (and hilarious) celebrity for the Instagram age."Sound and the city
"Urban silence is increasingly endangered—and primarily available to those who can pay for it"
#POLITICS
[In Italian] - Come Salvini tiene in vita il network di disinformazione più grande d'Italia
"Che fine ha fatto la rete di siti e pagine portata alla luce da Buzzfeed nel 2017? È viva e vegeta, ha numeri enormi e soprattutto viene condivisa dalla comunicazione del leader leghista: l'inchiesta di Wired"[In Italian] - Lo stile nero
"La maledizione di Piazza Fontana è un saggio che scava nella psicologia del nazifascismo italiano."
#SOCIALMEDIA
Made.com opens an apartment in Amsterdam for influencers to take Instagram pictures
"Above its showroom in Amsterdam sits a Made.com 'instapartment' - an Instagram-friendly apartment which it describes as 'a haven for instagrammers.'"
#PHOTOGRAPHY
[In Italian] - c'è una fanzine che ha solo fotografie di ragazze con gatti
"Gattare di tutto il mondo, questo è il magazine per voi."
#ART
[Video] - The little mermaid 1960 Rusalochka English & Español subs Russian animation
"Animation directed by Ivan Aksenchuk after the story of Hans Christian Andersen."OpenStreetMap Haiku
"Looking at every aspect of the surroundings of a point, we can generate a poem about any place in the world. The result is sometimes fun, often weird, most of the time pretty terrible."
#TECH
Library Extension
"A Chrome extension which lets users browse Amazon.com and see if a book or ebook is available at their local library so they can go borrow the book instead of buying it."
#THEDARKSIDE
Big Mood Machine
"Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit"Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
"Here in the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s penchant to be careless with their money."AOC is sounding the alarm about the rise of facial recognition: 'This is some real-life "Black Mirror" stuff'
"'People think I'm going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears and not realize that that data's being collected by a corporation or the state, depending on what country you're in, in order to surveil you potentially for the rest of your life,' she said."'Smile with your eyes': How to beat South Korea's AI hiring bots and land a job
"'Don’t force a smile with your lips,' he told students looking for work in a recent session, one of many he said he has conducted for hundreds of people. 'Smile with your eyes.'"Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
"Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files."
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