[nonostantement #148] - skating new york / windows ugly sweaters / chinese super soldiers
Now with MORE expressionless face masks!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with polite, nasty and noteworthy stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello there, Joele here, sending you good stuff from Barcelona with my weekly newsletter - full of links collected wandering on the internet while being a digital strategist.
There’s a new album from Nils Frahm, we could listen to that while reading, ok?
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#PEOPLE
Six months ago The New York Times asked a group of epidemiologists about their life, so… how are they living now and what they think is next?
I still have a soft spot for certain types of graffiti, so to read about that two dozen subway cars were painted during a single night in NYC…
Probably one of the most amazing things you could do right now: Skating New York under lockdown.
[In Italian] - L'artista italiano che ha creato un database di volti di poliziotti e ci ha tappezzato Parigi: "Con Capture Police il mio obiettivo è dimostrare che il riconoscimento facciale è così pericoloso che può essere utilizzato anche contro la polizia stessa."
A face mask that protects you from the coronavirus AND from Facial recognition system, while turning us into an expressionless drone society? Love it!
Fashion is one of the businesses most affected by the pandemic, but it is also one of those that has accelerated its transition to digital.
#PHOTOGRAPHY
“Many modernist buildings from the Soviet period are being destroyed, but Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov hopes to preserve their memory with these shots of sloping cinemas and rooms under surveillance”
“In his photo series ‘Discoteca’, photographer Francois Prost captures eerie scenes from Spain’s beach towns, built for crowds of tourists that the pandemic kept away.”
#WEIRD
Microsoft just opened an ugly sweaters online store featuring vintage operating systems designs.
[Video] - A short documentary about sex dolls' future. Do I have to add more?
#THEDARKSIDE
The persuasion techniques used to communicate products that are not always beneficial to customers. This is a topic that fascinates me a lot, I often talk about it in my classes: “The alcohol industry regularly spreads misinformation to obscure booze’s cancer link.”
Well this was predictable, we will have fun in the coming months: “Darknet Drug Dealers Are Now Selling ‘Pfizer COVID Vaccines’"
"While the potential leveraging of CRISPR to increase human capabilities on the future battlefield remains only a hypothetical possibility at the present, there are indications that Chinese military researchers are starting to explore its potential"
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