[nonostantement #211] - google search is dying / cartoons in real life / obsolete bionic eyes
Now with LESS money in Zuck's bank account!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with puzzling, enlightening, and irritating stuff found all over the Internet.
Good morning dear friends from me, Joele. I don't know about where you live but here in Barcelona it seems like winter never really begun.
I send you this mail, as every week, to collect the best links found during the past week while working online as a brand consultant.First of all, some random music: Mathew Jonson - Marionette (The Beginning) and Jonny Trunk - Zeus
#TECH
Early access to Chrome OS Flex: The upgrade PCs & Macs have been waiting for
”Use Chrome OS Flex to maximize the life of your existing device fleet. Rather than disposing of aging PCs and Macs, refresh them with a modern and fast operating system to reduce e-waste.”How to Explain the ‘Metaverse’ to Your Grandparents
And by grandparents I mean MBA classmates who keep asking me what it isGoogle Search Is Dying
If you’ve tried to search for a recipe or product review recently, I don’t need to tell you that Google search results have gone to shit. You would have already noticed that the first few non-ad results are SEO optimized sites filled with affiliate links and ads.I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life
Zuckerberg Has Burned $500 Billion Turning Facebook to Meta
”Essentially, there are two main channels for advertisers to sell digital ads: one based on what you search for and the other based on which sites you’ve visited and your other online behaviors. The latter was Facebook’s business model — and the reason you would get uncanny ads for goods before you even knew you needed them. Apple and Google have decided they’re going to allow their users to disable code that tracks people across the internet, which happens to be good for their business model.”
#PEOPLE
[Video] - What Really Happened Behind the Scenes on Pimp My Ride
Yo dawg, this may be painful to hear, but a lot of the Pimp My Ride episodes were actually a TV disaster.[Video] - One Man Lives – And Farms – In The Middle Of Tokyo Narita Airport
Takao Shito is a farmer living in the Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Unlike other farmers who left when the airport was built in the 1960s, he chose to stay and continue to cultivate his farmland.'Bowie bonds' - the singer's financial innovation
”In 1997 Bowie sold asset-backed securities, dubbed ‘Bowie bonds’, which awarded investors a share in his future royalties for 10 years.”Eunoia
Eunoia allows you to search for untranslatable words by language, tag, or the word itself. There are over 500 words in the database, across 50+ languages and 50+ tags.Zuck Tells Employees They’re Now Called Metamates—a Really Fucking Stupid Name If You Ask Me
One of Meta's many new corporate values is "Meta, Metamates, me."
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#ART
Blackboard covered with Graffiti
Drawings were made during the 1980 Nuffield Workshop in Cambridge (UK) on Superspace and Supergravity.
Hawking kept this blackboard as a treasured souvenir of an international conference he organised in Cambridge. Guests at the event covered the blackboard in equations, cartoons and jokes about each other, and creatures named after mathematical tools.
“Almost too beautiful to be true”: Inside Hayao Miyazaki’s genius
The lauded co-founder of Studio Ghibli has taken animated film to new heights. Now, a first-of-its-kind retrospective pays tribute to the master, inviting us behind the scenes of the mind that gave us Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro.
#THEDARKSIDE
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the darkExposed documents reveal how the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm
Reputation firms like Eliminalia use legal threats and copyright notices to have material taken down around the world.Bitcoin trader brutally tortured with drill in cryptocurrency robbery
Criminals disguised as police attacked the victim for an hour in front of his four-year-old daughterAirTags Are A Growing Headache For Apple Amid Disturbing Reports Of Tracking
Women around the country say they've gotten notifications that the relatively cheap location-tracking devices are following them.
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