[nonostantement #210] - internet & counterculture / facebook & superusers / sustainable fashion
Now with MORE cyborgs!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with intriguing, illuminating, and offensive stuff found all over the Internet.
Good morning dear readers, today we are gathered around this internet to share some of the links that yours truly (my name is Joele, and I am a brand consultant living in Barcelona btw) has found around during the past week working online.
Let’s start with some random nice beats: Quakers feat. Sampa the Great - Approach with Caution, Rob SWIFT : shady beats, Jonwayne - These Words Are Everything and The Still Brothers - Wake Up (ft. Marina B)
#SOCIALMEDIA
22% of Italians have stopped using social media in last year
Tired of fake news, concerned over privacy said Deloitte surveyThe internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self.”Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem
Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users. Facebook relies on them to decide what everyone sees.
#PEOPLE
[Video] - Spinal implants let man walk again after complete paralysis from the waist down
Roccati, who was paralysed in a motorbike crash in 2017, now uses the implanted device for 1 to 2 hours a day, including for going for walks on his own. He can also stand up for 2 hours, cycle and even swim, by choosing different stimulation programs. He finds walking or standing helps relieve pain caused by sitting in a wheelchair all day.Google Futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we'll all be cyborgs by 2030
”Kurzweil has made hard-to-believe predictions before, some of which turned out to be true — about 86% by his own calculations.”Fact-Checking Joe Rogan’s Interview With Robert Malone That Caused an Uproar
Mr. Rogan, a wildly popular podcast host, and his guest, Dr. Malone, a controversial infectious-disease researcher, offered a litany of falsehoods over three hours.The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Few industries tout their sustainability credentials more forcefully than the fashion industry. But the sad truth is that despite high-profile attempts at innovation, it’s failed to reduce its planetary impact in the past 25 years. Most items are still produced using non-biodegradable petroleum-based synthetics and end up in a landfill.The internet turned “money” into a hobby
Why (mostly) 20- and 30-something dudes made crypto and sports betting their personality.
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MoviePass will track people’s eyes through their phone to make sure they see ads
MoviePass head Stacy Spikes said that they wanted to avoid people putting down the phone and avoiding the adsRussian teenager jailed over ‘Minecraft plot to blow up virtual spy HQ’
Boy, 16, sentenced to five years for alleged plan to target FSB building created in computer gameSenators: CIA has secret program that collects American data
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