Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with interesting, intelligent, and perplexing stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello! My name is Joele, and every Sunday I send this email to all of my friends. During the week, I keep note of the greatest links I see while working as an online communication consultant and then put them in here. I was born in Italy but I am now based in Barcelona, Spain. Why I do this? I don’t know. You tell me.
Two tracks to listen to while reading this newsletter: Bot'Ox - Blue Steel aaand Franco Battiato - Il Re del Mondo.
#PEOPLE
Feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four approved by Orwell’s estate
American writer Sandra Newman’s novel Julia will tell the dystopian story from the perspective of Winston Smith’s lover[In Italian] - 3 maggio 1979: Il finto arresto di Ugo Tognazzi
«La Stampa» dava l'annuncio dell'arresto dell'attore in quanto presunto capo delle Br. Lo scherzo era stato organizzato dalla rivista satirica «Il Male», con la complicità dello stesso TognazziThe Perfect Gift: Your Loved One's Name in an NYPL Book
When you make a donation The New York Public Library will print your loved one's name and a personalized message inside a book circulating in the library.Want to be a criminal in America? Stealing billions is your best bet to go scot-free
A wave of shoplifting crimes is attracting front-page news, while the $15bn stolen by corporations from workers receives no coverage at allYoung People Worldwide Are Extremely Anxious About The Climate Crisis: Survey
Nearly 60% of young people are “very” or “extremely” worried about the climate crisis, and 45% say this negatively affects their daily life and functioning.
#MUSIC
weirdspot.fyi
Enter a phrase and this site creates a Spotify playlist with songs that have the words of the phrase as title.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’
Social-media fandom can help authors score book deals and bigger advances, but does it translate to how a new title will sell? Publishers are increasingly skeptical.When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z
Amelia Whelan used social media as an accelerant for her sales community. Then things blew up.
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#TECH
The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code
For Monkey Island’s 30th anniversary, we went looking for the secret, and found more than we knew possible.New Study on NFTs Deflates the “Democratic” Potential for the Medium
75% of NFTs sell for an average of $15, study says.Small Group of Insiders Is Reaping Most of the Gains on NFTs, Study Shows
”Chainalysis report says early access via ‘whitelist’ helps” - 🤣Apple's new privacy changes have hiked up marketing costs for some advertisers, while others have shifted spend to Android and TV, analysis of Q3 earnings shows
”The so-called App Tracking Transparency change forces app developers to ask users for their permission in order to track them across other apps and sites. With most users opting out, advertisers have less available data about the audiences they are targeting and whether their campaigns were effective. Businesses such as gaming apps and ecommerce companies that lean heavily on placing ads in other apps or using advertising methods like retargeting to attract new customers have been particularly affected.”
#THEDARKSIDE
Ontario police reveal how some thieves have been able to steal so many luxury cars
”[…] AirTags were placed in hard-to-see places on cars parked in high-traffic locations so they could be tracked and later stolen from driveways.”Chinese researchers turn to artificial intelligence to build futuristic weapons
The Chinese military already uses AI to build powerful weapons such as railguns, that can fire projectiles over a range of hundreds of kilometres
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