[nonostantement #197] - micro suicide drone / forty million newsletter / curator economy
Now with MORE cognitive biases!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with challenging, sharp and perplexing stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi! We all find ourselves here for my weekly mail with all the best links I found during the week spent online working on communication projects. For newcomers my name is Joele, I live in Barcelona and I deal with digital strategies for companies, brands and institutions. This is the email I send to my friends every Sunday for almost 4 years.
As the soundtrack of this newsletter today we have a bunch of random tracks, each one disconnected from the other: CZ Wang and Neo Image - Just Off Wave (feat. Separated at Birth) - Nighthawk · Mateus Alves · Tomaz Alves Souza - Bonobo - 'Otomo (feat. O’Flynn)' - Bawrut - Alfredo and Ricardo brought me here
#THEDARKSIDE
Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.She drew millions of TikTok followers by selling a fantasy of rural China. Then politics intervened
Fans from the U.S. to Bangladesh find escape in Li Ziqi's idyllic videos. But behind the camera, she's just another player in China’s platform economy.1.8 TB of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage Leaks Online
DDoSecrets published the trove Friday afternoon. Privacy advocates say it shows how pervasive law enforcement's eye has become, and how lax its data protection can be.The CIA Is Trying to Recruit Gen Z—and Doesn’t Care If They’re All Over Social Media
You’d think a generation of folks raised on making look-at-me posts on social media could never go work at the Agency. You’d be wrong.[Video] Ninox 40 Micro Tactical UAS - THE_FULL_STORY
”Micro suicide drone for a 'rapid and lethal kill chain'.”
#PEOPLE
The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health
Did you know that the founder of BuzzFeed predicted that we'd all be yelling at each other about ADHD 25 years ago (kinda)?The Great Resignation has begun; the WeTransfer Ideas Report shows that 45 per cent of creatives are thinking of leaving their jobs
According to the survey, creatives are now more focused than ever on doing work with meaning and reward, rather than seeking “cold, hard cash.”The 25-year-old who created a $40 million newsletter you've never heard of
"She started with the premise that most people don't like their inboxes. Many view it as a massive to-do list. But she asked herself, ‘what if there was an email every day that was like your friend in your inbox. Wouldn’t that be so happy and delightful and an oasis in your morning?’”[Video] - Emergency Landing At Mallow Racecourse1983
”The greatest tourist attraction to have hit the town of Mallow in living memory, a seven million pound executive jet which with great panache was landed here by the Mexican Captain Okana.”Women in type
Rediscovering women’s contribution to type history[Video] - LOVERS ROCK Q&A | BFI London Film Festival 2020
Steve McQueen talks […] about Lovers Rock. Another in McQueen’s Small Axe collection of vivid memories, political indictments and historical artefacts depicting Black West Indian presence in London.The Cognitive Bias Codex
Wikipedia’s list of 188 cognitive biases, grouped into categories and rendered as a radial dendrogram (circle diagram). (I had already posted this link but in another format)How The Curator Economy Shapes Today’s Products
”What’s the Curator Economy? The Curator Economy was born out of people’s time and attention deficit. People are already drowned in problems, and they don’t want to spend hours finding the needle in a haystack, because there are too many solutions out there.”The Complicated Ethics of Retouching in Commercial Photography
In an age where everything seems filtered or artificially polished, photographers weigh in on the ethics behind retouching in commercial photography.
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How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
The social media site is the bane of non-users’ lives, hijacking image search results with a pushy sign-up screen. It needs to stop.Instagram is offering huge bonuses for posting on Reels, its TikTok clone
”As TikTok surpasses the 1 billion monthly active users mark, competitor platforms like YouTube Shorts, Snapchat Spotlight and Instagram Reels are incentivizing users to post their short-form content on their apps instead. YouTube established a $100 million creator fund for Shorts, Snapchat is offering cash prizes for submissions to Spotlight challenges and, now, Instagram is upping the ante on its monthly Reels Play bonus program.”
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