[nonostantement #113] - airbnb & coronavirus / support the shorts / gamified life
Now with more videos of spaghetti harvesting!
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Buongiorno, Joele here (you may know me because of some weird talk I gave somewhere about the dark side of the the internet and stuff like that, don’t worry we are going to be fine).
I am writing nonostantement #113 in Barcelona, while listening to this mix.
#PEOPLE
For Over 30 Years, a Tokyo Soba Chef Drew Everything He Ate
”Itsuo Kobayashi, a former Japanese soba chef born in 1962 who has recorded his meals in painstakingly detailed, hand-drawn food diaries of sorts for the past 32 years.”Stop Trying to Be Productive
”The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.”Photographer Creates Realistic Photo Shoots in Animal Crossing Video Game
”These aren’t just basic screenshots, the game actually has a built-in ‘camera’ function, allows you to style your characters from head to toe, and even features a studio light that you can try and use for some “artificial” lighting if you really want to get creative.”Can Airbnb Survive Coronavirus?
”The short-term rental market is reeling from the coronavirus-driven tourism collapse. Can the industry’s dominant player stage a comeback after lockdowns lift?”In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies
”Weighing an idea that might once have been relegated to science fiction, Italy once again finds itself in the unfortunate vanguard of Western democracies grappling with the coronavirus.”[In Italian] - Fare il rider ai tempi del contagio
”Dalla viva voce di chi consegna cibo a domicilio durante l’emergenza sanitaria, un viaggio tra strade vuote, androni dei palazzi, rapporti senza contatto e aggregazioni umane ai margini.”Tales from the far-flung Faroes
”[…] on the smaller islands, post is delivered on foot by locals. Meet some of them.”Fast fashion hasn’t stopped putting profits over people
”As shipments get cancelled and factories shut down, the global pandemic has caused chaos and suffering for millions of garment workers across the Global South.”The Private Chefs Risking Their Lives to Feed the Super Rich
”For private chefs, coronavirus has forced difficult conversations with their wealthy clients”Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic roiling the world above
”Crew members of ballistic submarines are habitually spared bad news while underwater to avoid undermining their morale, say current and former officers who served aboard France’s nuclear-armed subs.”[In Italian] - Oggi ci stupiamo degli albanesi, ieri loro si stupirono di noi
”L’Italia ha poca memoria, ma alcuni ragazzini del 1991 sanno bene perché gli albanesi ci aiutano.”London’s rental market is being flooded by bargain Airbnb listings
”The capital is awash with rentals that bear all the hallmarks of hastily rejigged Airbnbs”
#WEIRD
[Video] - BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino
”The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree […]”
#ART
Mailchimp presents: Support the shorts
”When the City of Austin had to cancel this year’s festival, hundreds of filmmakers lost the opportunity for their work to be seen. Together, Mailchimp and Oscilloscope Laboratories have created a digital home for this incredible slate of short films, so you can watch them from wherever you are.”Abstracting Reality: The Future Worlds of Daito Manabe
”The Tokyo-based artist founded the influential Rhizomatiks company in 2006 and has been probing the uncharted territories between art and technology ever since.”
#THEDARKSIDE
Employees at home are being photographed every 5 minutes by an always-on video service to ensure they're actually working — and the service is seeing a rapid expansion since the coronavirus outbreak
”In order to keep productivity high while working remotely, some companies are turning to tools like Sneek. The software features a "wall of faces" for each office, which stays on throughout the workday and features constantly-updating photos of workers taken through their laptop camera every one to five minutes.”Gamified life
”From scoreboards to trackers, games have infiltrated work, serving as spies, overseers and agents of social control”
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