[nonostantement #160] - defeat a robot / good ideas / flim
Now with way LESS cables in your computer than before!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with malicious, objectionable and fascinating stuff found all over the Internet.
Ciao everyone, Joele here. Welcome back to my weekly newsletter, in which I send you all the interesting links that I found during past week while working online at stuff. By the way, we could also connect via LinkedIn.
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As a soundtrack we can pay homage to that two famous robots, with Daft Punk Medley by Chilly Gonzales.
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#THEDARKSIDE
In Italy we call this type of things "the pulcinella's secret" (something that is public knowledge despite attempts to keep it hidden). It turns out, with other little interesting things, that Facebook was aware of how fake the numbers they were providing are (for example the "potential reach" of its advertising tools) ... but, as they made a lot of money with that, they went on anyway.
I hope you never need this kind of information, but I'll put it here, just in case: How to Defeat a Boston Dynamics Robot in Mortal Combat.
[Video] - normally, when I find corporate videos like this one, I download them and put the Black Mirror soundtrack on them. It is usually perfect. But, in this case, the new PR blitz by Facebook that tries to explain to us how beneficial it is to track our behaviors (to solve the problem they have with Apple's privacy feature) is so embarrassing (and kinda insulting) that it's… perfect - just the way it is. There’s something more here if you want to read about it.
A website that allows you to visualize virtually every U.S. company's international supply chain. E.x. What products, how much, which factories and where do they import from? I would love to see something like this for European companies as well…
#PEOPLE
[Video] - Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse's Eyes | by New York Times - disclaimer: don't watch it if you get depressed easily.
Slam Jam (one of the cornerstones of street wear in Italy) has just published its archive with more than 30,000 items. An introductory article here with some of its founder's favorite pieces.
[Video] - How To Grow Rich During The Pandemic: if you need a video on how to get rich during these times - this is the one worth watching.
#TECH
Flim - is an intelligent movie screenshot search engine. You can search for a keyword (an object, for example) and it returns a series of screenshots in which that object appears in movies.
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