[nonostantement #109] - curators & influencers / folding@home & covid19 / spying the scammers
Now with more links that are NOT about the new coronavirus!
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Hi, my name is Joele and I spend a lot of time on the Internet, as an expert of online culture. Come visit me on my LinkedIn page, where I regularly post some of the links you find in here - and some more - usually adding my thoughts about them.
#PEOPLE
is it canceled yet?
Is that big event you wanted to attend canceled yet?My Ex-Boyfriend’s New Girlfriend Is Lady Gaga
"How do you compare yourself with one of the most famous women in the world?”Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
”Curation is the fuel of the modern aspiration economy”FOLDING@HOME TAKES UP THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 / 2019-NCOV
”By downloading Folding@Home, you can donate your unused computational resources to the Folding@home Consortium, where researchers working to advance our understanding of the structures of potential drug targets for 2019-nCoV that could aid in the design of new therapies.”
#ART
Archivio Grafica Italiana
”Archivio Grafica Italiana is the first online archive dedicated to the entire Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview that goes from the greatest classics to contemporary projects, showing the evolution of the graphic discipline from art to design.”Identity Designed
”Identity Designed is a compilation of visual identities from hundreds of talented design studios around the world.”Smell the ink and drift away: why I find solace in photobooks
”Instagram is like frozen pizza, exhibitions are noisy – but a photobook is an act of analogue rebellion in an obnoxiously digital world”
#SOCIALMEDIA
2019 Influencer Marketing Report
”Influencer Marketing Grows 82% in 2019, Reaching $1.9 Billion”Tikked off: What happens when TikTok fame fades
”TikTok’s fickle nature and mysterious, ever-changing algorithm means there is an ocean of users whose fame and clout are fluctuating at every moment, and that new faces are always rising as others fall away. For the majority of kids who use TikTok for fun, that isn’t a problem. But for the growing number who get caught up in a wave of attention only to watch it drift away, it can be devastating.”The Political Pundits of TikTok
”Teenagers are campaigning, debating, running fact checks and forming party-based coalitions (hype houses). One of them called it ‘cable news for young people.’”A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate. Twitter verified it
”I had no malicious intent. I just wanted to simply test to see whether this could happen. So in case someone with bad intentions wanted to do this, Twitter now knows and can take steps to fix this"Introducing Vogue’s first-ever virtual style editor, Gray Gannon
”IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BULGARI”Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
”People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.”
#THEDARKSIDE
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
”Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.”[Video] - Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors Because of a Repair Ban
”In this episode of State of Repair, we go to Nebraska to talk to the farmers and mechanics who are fighting large manufacturers like John Deere for the right to access the diagnostic software they need to repair their tractors.”[Video] - Spying On The Scammers | BBC Stories
”Millions of people fall victim to scams every year. Many are run from criminal call centres, where teams of fraudsters operate around the clock. An online vigilante, who goes by the name ‘Jim Browning’, decided to do something about it. He hacked into a call centre in India where scammers target victims around the world.”
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