[nonostantement #152] - primitive technology / eff2020 / facebook as the doomsday machine
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with respectable, abhorrent and stupefying stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi my name is Joele and almost nobody actually read these lines right here but whatever - I am a digital strategist living in Barcelona and I send a mail every Sunday collecting the best links from the past week.
As a soundtrack for this newsletter you could listen to this nice short lo-fi track by “mommy”, the amazing “Kadia blues” by Kélétigui et ses Tambourinis, “Spoon” by Malian Musicians & Damon Albarn, or… you could just put this “Commodore Amiga 500 floppy disk loading sound” video on - that feels like real nice music to me.
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#SOCIALMEDIA
As if we still needed more evidence, online controversy can help boost engagement, numbers and visibility of internet celebrities: How getting 'canceled' can actually prolong a YouTuber's career.
[Video] - An in-depth look at “Primitive Technology” the only YouTube channel to which I am subscribed (apart from paying clients, of course ;) ) - its ripoffs and why he is not posting videos lately.
#MUSIC
[Video] - In 1972 Bhutan issued stamps that you could play like a record. The 'talking stamps' were issued in sets of 7 and were actually used to send mail. The tiny vinyls were made of plastic.
[Video] - a huge collection of avant garde electronic music, with more than 200 records, spanning from 1952 to 1984.
#PEOPLE
[Video] - In the past I have worked and continue to collaborate with nonprofit entities and THIS is the type of fundraising video I would like to have the opportunity to create: FUCK YOU 2020!
Some people live in a nation that does school shooting drills… online. That’s just… sad.
#THEDARKSIDE
Since so many deliveries are made with its own fleet, Amazon has obviously started to map the world. It has now made this tool public.
“Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine” - This is a long read but is it worth it: “Hillary Clinton told me earlier this year that talking to Zuckerberg feels like negotiating with the authoritarian head of a foreign state. ‘This is a global company that has huge influence in ways that we're only beginning to understand’”
Alibaba admits it built facial-recognition-as-a-service to detect oppressed Uyghur minority in China.
That's it for now.
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