[nonostantement #204] - 2998 / influence vs authority / tiktok & mental disorders
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Happy new year folks! Joele here and, even in this first Sunday of 2022, I am sending you the best links I’ve found during last week. I usually work as an online communication expert but during these week I am online just studying NFTs, DeFi and DAOs. Yes that’s the way I like to spend my xmas holiday. Go figure.
This newsletter will still be a brief one since, well, you know, New Year and all that.
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#PEOPLE
[Video] - Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty
”They are architecture as spatial financial form, not as shelter or cultural manifestation”How to Influence Without Authority
Influencing without authority is the ability to make others act, behave, or think without having any power or right over them.Causation vs. Correlation
Confusion between these two terms often leads to a lot of inaccurate assumptions about the way the world works. We notice two things happening at the same time (correlation) and mistakenly conclude that one causes the other (causation). We then often act upon that erroneous conclusion, making decisions that can have immense influence across our lives. The problem is, without a good understanding of what is meant by these terms, these decisions fail to capitalize on real dynamics in the world and instead are successful only by luck.
#TECH
Sketching and layering graffiti primitives
A variant of the skeletal strokes algorithm aimed at mimicking the appearance of hand made graffiti art. The method produces vector output with no artificial artwork splits, patches or masks to render the non-global layering; each path of the vector output is part of the desired outline. The method lets users
interactively generate a wide variety of stylised outputs.
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#THEDARKSIDE
Experts troubled by TikTok trend that can have teens believing they have serious mental disorders
The app, which has become a community for users to connect and for teens to show off dance moves and share other fun videos, has recently had some trending videos of young people claiming to have a borderline personality, bipolar or dissociative identity disorder, which is spreading like wildfire on the platform.
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