Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with unimaginable, desirable, and marvelous stuff found all over the Internet.
Ciao everyone, I'm Joele, I live in Barcelona and every Sunday I send this email with the most interesting things I find while working online. Every time I write this intro I feel like Korvo.
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#PEOPLE
[Video] - That Moment You're the Last Person to Hear Someone Alive
Storyteller Brian Finkelstein shares a memory from his time as a crisis hotline volunteer.The mysterious inner life of the octopus
Octopuses are problem-solvers, mischief-makers and notorious escape artists. They also appear to have a rich inner life – so what is it like to be an octopus?
#TECH
Brickit — the new life of your good old Lego bricks
Just scatter your bricks on a table and take a photo. Brickit will come up with hundreds of ideas of what can be built with them and show you the exact location of each piece you’ll need.[Video] - Realtime Facial Capture with UE5 Metahuman and Deep Fake
Testing UE5 Metahuman Creator with face replacement using DeepFaceLive.This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting
With plans to create realistic synthetic embryos, grown in jars, Renewal Bio is on a journey to the horizon of science and ethics.
#ART
A love letter to the Internet of old
GeoCities was a web-hosting service that made it possible for people to build their own home pages. During the 90s, users from all over the world created personalized corners of the Internet. By the time the U.S. service shut down in October 2009, there were over 38 million GeoCities pages.Things I Have Drawn
Things I Have Drawn imagines a world in which the things kids draw are real.
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#THEDARKSIDE
Why Old Spice, Colgate and Dawn are locked up at drug stores
”Crime gangs often look to steal products from stores that can easily and quickly be resold on online marketplaces such as Amazon and through illicit markets.”A factory line of terrors : TikTok's African content moderators complain they were treated like robots, reviewing videos of suicide and animal cruelty for less than $3 an hour.
As TikTok gains in popularity in the Middle East and North Africa, it's ramping up its content moderation operation in the region.Amazon Buys Roomba Company, Will Now Map Inside of Your House
The corporate giant has purchased a company that uses robots to map the interior of people’s homes. Also, it vacuums.
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