[nonostantement #213] - fake design agency / mindfiling / war & tiktok
Now with MORE soldiers on social media!
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Dark Sky Maps
Weather map with emojis 🤷♂️Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
The Zoom call had about 40 people on it - or that's what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at the glamorous design agency had been called to welcome the growing company's newest recruits. Its name was Madbird and its dynamic and inspirational boss, Ali Ayad, wanted everyone on the call to be ambitious hustlers - just like him.Live monitoring of all sanctions against Russia
Sanctions are the main weapon of the West in the Ukraine conflict. But their effectiveness remains an open question. We’re providing daily updates on which embargoes are imposed on whom and answering your most important questions.[Video] - Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut Commercial
#TECH
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not only material, but is also an ecological force.What I Learned From Recording My Thoughts for an Immortal A.I.
Mindfiling is a practice from the techno-religious faith movement Terasem, which celebrates personal cyberconsciousness.Web3 Threatens to Segregate Our Online Lives
In February, shit hit the fan in the usual way: An old tweet resurfaced. Brantly Millegan, director of operations at Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a web3 business, had written the following in May 2016: “Homosexual acts are evil. Transgenderism doesn’t exist. Abortion is murder.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Watching the World’s “First TikTok War”
One of the most striking images from the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a picture, taken by the photojournalist Tyler Hicks, depicting a dead soldier sprawled on the ground in front of a disabled tank, his body covered in a sheet of fresh snow.
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TikTok Was Designed for War
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war—but it is the first to play out on TikTok. The 2011 Arab Spring was fomented and furthered on Twitter and Facebook. Clips of Syrian children choking from chemical weapons filled social media timelines in 2018.
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