[nonostantement #107] - black man groundhog day / nespresso scam / israeli soldiers & fake cute girls

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#FASHION

• Op-Ed | Luxury Has Eaten Through Streetwear, What Now?
  "What will happen once the novelty of collaborating with streetwear loses its appeal? Like an aging pop star, the European luxury houses will probably align themselves with whatever upcoming phenomenon will keep them relevant and profitable."

• ZERO TO MARKET - Measuring the Carbon Emissions of Fashion Week
  "Over a 12-month period, the carbon emissions of buyers from 2,697 retail organisations and 5,096 ready-to-wear designers participating in international fashion weeks, over the four major fashion seasons, were measured."

#MUSIC

• [Video] - 珍品】ブータンのレコード型の切手 (HD) ~Stamp of record type of Bhutan~

• [Video] - Bibio - Phantom Brickworks

• Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
  "[...] analyzing the repetitiveness of a dataset of 15,000 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1958 and 2017."

• [Video] - Radio Raheem x Triennale/ PAGF w/ Matthew Herbert Host Massimo Torrigiani

#PEOPLE

• [In Italian] - Esiste un treno diretto da Milano a Mosca
  "Mentre guardo fuori dal finestrino, nel cielo vedo le scie di 4 aerei in volo sopra le nostre teste e penso che sia un lusso poter viaggiare in treno."

• The 25 Best Places To Cry in New York
  "New York is a great place for the heartbroken, thanks to the simple fact that it contains upwards of 8 million people and endless hidden-in-plain-sight spots for a little private reflection."

• [Video] - Groundhog Day For A Black Man
  "When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries changing his behavior to survive a police interaction."

• [Video] - AVN Expo
  "​Some on-scene reportage from the Adult Video Network Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada."

• Inside the World of ‘Femcels’
  "Just like men, many women feel their ‘inferior’ looks and personality make them unfuckable. But as they turn to online forums for the ‘involuntarily celibate,’ they must also contend with men who don’t believe they could possibly exist"

#THEDARKSIDE

• New infrastructure will enhance privacy in today’s Internet of Things
  "The Internet of Things (IoT) Assistant app, launched this week, is an app that informs users about what IoT technologies are around them and what data they are collecting."

• [Video] - DEF CON 27 Conference - Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule
  "This talk chronicles the obnoxious amounts of obsessive research and tracking that became my new hobby--stalking Nespresso fraudsters and my decidedly non-technical attempts at developing a generic search profile and reporting the fraudsters to anyone who would listen, to include : the persons whose identities had been stolen, Nespresso, Ebay, and the FBI."

• Israeli soldiers tricked into installing malware by Hamas agents posing as women
  "IDF: Six social media accounts were redirecting soldiers to installing three malware-infected apps."

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