[nonostantement #191] - akira slide / always famous / facebook as an autocracy
Now with MORE hamsters winning at trading!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with emotional, delightful and tolerable stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi, old and new friends of this newsletter! For the new ones, my name is Joele, i am Italian but i live in Barcelona, Spain. Since I work a lot on the Internet (I am an online communication consultant) I often come across interesting links. Every Sunday I send an email to my friends with the collection of these things to see.
A couple of link as soundtrack for this mail: Gotts Street Park - Diego, The Dining Rooms - Alli Guai and Aline - Christophe [In Italiano] (yes, it's the same track as the one from the new Wes Anderson film)
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[Video] - Three Decades of Akira Slide Homages
Revolt of the delivery workers
Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.
#PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer Sells Her Widely-Stolen Photo as NFT for $300K, Makes it Free
"A photographer who was tired of chasing down copyright infringers to her most-stolen photo decided instead to sell it as an NFT and then release the photo’s usage rights to the world. That NFT has just sold at auction for a whopping $300,000.”
#TECH
On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
”Everyone is losing their minds online because the combination of mass fame and mass surveillance increasingly channels our most basic impulses—toward loving and being loved, caring for and being cared for, getting the people we know to laugh at our jokes—into the project of impressing strangers, a project that cannot, by definition, sate our desires but feels close enough to real human connection that we cannot but pursue it in ever more compulsive ways.”A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500
The hamster determines which crypto to buy or sell by running on a wheel and strolling through one of two tunnels. Since it started trading on June 12, Goxx's crypto portfolio returned 24% as of Friday.Dimension Studio: How fashion is being brought to the metaverse
A London-based startup has worked with Balenciaga, Jean Paul Gaultier and H&M on avatars, VR, AR and virtual production. Here’s why all fashion brands should take note.
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Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
Flagship phones sold in Europe by China's smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement", Lithuania's state-run cybersecurity body said on Tuesday.The Largest Autocracy on Earth
”GDP makes for a telling comparison, not just because it gestures at Facebook’s extraordinary power, but because it helps us see Facebook for what it really is. Facebook is not merely a website, or a platform, or a publisher, or a social network, or an online directory, or a corporation, or a utility. It is all of these things. But Facebook is also, effectively, a hostile foreign power.”Details of some 100 million visitors to Thailand exposed online: research firm
British firm Comparitech said any foreigner who has travelled to Thailand in the last decade ‘might have had their information exposed’Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse
”Like it or not, AI is only going to become an even more omnipresent force: We’re in a ‘watershed moment’ for the technology, says Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO.”
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