[nonostantement #199] - death & instagram / tiktok & your friends / gen z muslims & memes
NOW with more weird misplaced buildings!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with energizing, sharp and perplexing stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello, everyone! My name is Joele, and I send this email to my pals every Sunday. Throughout the week, I keep note of the greatest links I come across while working as an online communication consultant. I am based in Barcelona, Spain.
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#PEOPLE
A Blade Runner TV Series Is Coming, Courtesy of Ridley Scott
”It’s a very bad time to be a replicant, but that makes it a very good time to be a fan of Ridley Scott’s 1983 sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner. Not only did we receive a surprisingly good, if wholly unnecessary, sequel in 2017 thanks to Dune director Denis Villeneuve, but the Blade Runner: Black Lotus anime spin-off series just premiered on Adult Swim earlier this month. Now, the man who started it all is going back to the far-off Los Angeles of... 2019?”Why staring at screens is making your eyeballs elongate – and how to stop it
How much extra time on screen have you had in the past 18 months? It may be causing nearsightedness – but there’s hope for reversing it.[In Italian] - Narrare la scienza
”L’analisi multivariata di clusterizzazione dei tweet (basata sulla co-occorrenza delle parole) ha evidenziato tre mondi lessicali e semantici.”Secret, death and Instagram
Maja Luna and the secret network for the most fragile girls in DenmarkThe Mystical, Magical, Terrifying Supernatural Cats of Japan
”The country has a long, often terrifying history of folklore involving monstrous supernatural cats. Japan’s magic catlore is wide and deep—ranging from the fanciful, magical shapeshifters (bakeneko) to the horrendous demonic corpse-eaters (kasha).[Video] - Pipine - Emmanuel Lantam
#ART
“City Portraits” by Víctor Enrich
”’City portraits’ (2007-2012) is a series of pictures result of a selection of a wider photographic report made during a 6 year long journey that Víctor Enrich made through central Europe and the Middle East.”
#MUSIC
AI Futures: how artificial intelligence will change music
Artificial intelligence is at the heart of a fundamental shift in music’s role in our lives, and for electronic music, the transition will be seismic. But will it result in a harmonious and utopian new landscape for creators and fans, or is intelligent automation the beginning of a new deepfake culture war? In part one of a three-part series running on DJ Mag digital this week, our online tech editor Declan McGlynn looks into how AI has become one of the most exciting developments in music since the advent of sampling.
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#SOCIALMEDIA
How User Engagement Features Created Weaponized Social Algorithms
”Why was the user’s timeline full of garbage in the first place?
The unfortunate answer is: these products were no longer designed for the wants and needs of the user. Instead, features were added (and added, and added) with one central goal, one guiding North Star: to bring users back to the platform and keep them engaged.”The Sneaky Way TikTok Is Connecting You to Real-Life Friends
The social network got huge by ignoring who you know. That's increasingly no longer the case.”
#THEDARKSIDE
The Gen Z Muslims Adopting the Memes of the Far Right
New research sheds light on the online ecosystem known as ‘Islamogram,’ boosted by Gen Z Muslims and fueled by regressive far-right symbols[Video] - MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040
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