[nonostantement #156] - vaccine architecture / hyperloop experience / werner herzog & skateboarding
NOW with MORE brutalist concrete high-rises!
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Hello you internet friend, this is Joele, an Italian Digital Strategist currently based in Barna. This is my weekly newsletter collecting all the interesting links I have found during last week. Please do enjoy it responsibly.
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#PEOPLE
Over the years I have come to realize that I just love seeing complex things fixed, and have made it part of my job. That's why I found this article on “The Architecture of Mass Vaccine Distribution” really interesting: building the infrastructure of inoculation can get complicated, extremely complicated.
Travelling, I often prefer the journey itself to spending time in the place where I have to go. So I don’t dislike a long journey. But as a tech enthusiast I hope to live the “hyperloop experience” soon!
[Video] - A before/after comparison of Le Corbusier's project “Plan Voisin” - a radical urban design for Paris from 1925: “Even though Le Corbusier's proposal seems completely wrong and devastating from today's perspective, it has indescribable strength. The contrast between old and new in scale, design and materiality are disturbing and intriguing at the same time.”
I just found out that one of my favorite documentarians, Louis Theroux (surname I have always mispronounced really bad) has created a podcast with very interesting interviews. About him I once read something like "he just gives everyone enough rope to hang themselves".
[In Italian] - OK. I officially fell into the rabbit hole of Alessandro Barbero's videos. I admit it. BUT I'm not the only one because someone has created a site with his videos in chronological order AND on a map to navigate and choose the video based on geographic location! I love the Internet.
[Video] - Werner Herzog watches a skateboarding video for the first time. Do I need to add anything? Ok. He thinks the soundtrack should be “Russian Orthodox church choirs” because “What they are doing is bordering on the sacred".
#WEIRD
[Video] - New skills to learn during lockdown: how to smash a 40kg log into your crotch.
#THEDARKSIDE
In this part of the world a lot of people think all Chinese people simply agree with everything that happens over there. But it seems that a recent survey demonstrates that citizens are growing increasingly alarmed about the way Facial recognition is used in China for everything, from refuse collection to toilet roll dispensers.
How much does “buying” a mobile number of a Facebook user cost? It's $20 per number, unless you're buying in bulk. There seems to be a bot on Telegram that sells phone numbers of Facebook users: 533 million are at risk.
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