[nonostantement #230] onlineness / e-pimps / phone muggers vs your privacy
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Soundtrack: Kutiman-Thru-you - 02 - This Is What It Became - Thievery Corporation - Letter to the Editor - Up, Bustle & Out - Running Rude - Tess Parks - Brexit At Tiffany's
#PEOPLE
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.Therapists Should Build a New Cultural Competence: ‘Onlineness’
Therapy doesn’t work without understanding, and the “extremely online” deserve to have their experiences taken seriously.On being surprised by what you've made
Musician Regina Spektor discusses the malleability of songs, the expansiveness of process, and finding home in your work and community.‘I accidentally invented trip-hop’ – how we made DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing
‘People said: “Nobody’s going to listen to instrumental trip-hop.” But I was thinking of huge soundscapes, like the ones by Pink Floyd or Beethoven’[Video] - Legal Drunk Drivers from the 1960s
A current affairs show from 1967 talks to habitual drunk drivers on the eve of the introduction of the breathalyser[Video] - The Scorsese Machine HD dinner with his parents 1988
Segment of the Scorsese Machine Doc. This is a great doc with a rare glimpse of a day in the life of Martin Scorsese, in 1988, while editing his Life Lessons segment for New York Stories.Google will start auto-deleting abortion clinic visits from user location history
Along with visits to other potentially sensitive locations
#TECH
The Avatars Wear Prada
And Balenciaga and Thom Browne. Meta opens a new fashion store for the metaverse. Should you shop?
#SOCIALMEDIA
[Video] - YouTube BANNED my Debunking Video but leaves DEADLY how-to vids online, 34 dead!
YouTube removed my debunking video that warned people about a deadly hack ... BUT left the original how-to hack videos online. This hack has already killed 34 people in the US.OnlyFans Creator Says She Got Her Instagram Back by Systematically Having Sex With Facebook Employees
An OnlyFans creator who goes by the name Kitty Lixo said on the podcast “No Jumper” that after her Instagram account got banned, she managed to get it reinstated by systematically having sex with Meta employees (formerly known as Facebook employees).
#PHOTOGRAPHY
Sibylle Bergemann
Town and Country and Dogs Photographs 1966–2010 The exhibition approaches her unique visual universe on several narrative levels.
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The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans
Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor.Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State
Times reporters spent over a year combing through government bidding documents that reveal the country’s technological road map to ensure the longevity of its authoritarian rule.Inside the secret, often bizarre world that decides what porn you see
The adult industry’s de facto regulator isn’t government, international convention or business itself. It’s Mastercard and VisaMugged for my phone, then locked out of my life
The violent theft of his device — the gateway to his bank accounts, email and glasses prescription — opened up weeks of admin hell for James BallTikTok Users Are Doxing the Supreme Court
Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, users have posted videos with the addresses and alleged credit card information of Conservative justices.
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