[nonostantement #237] cars vs money / voyage through time / pizzeria owner vs venture capital
NOW with MORE helmets!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with illogical, convenient, and astonishing stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi guys, we have some new members so it seems important to me to repeat a few basic things: my name is Joele, I am an online communication consultant. I am Italian but live in Barcelona. Every week I send this e-mail to my friends with links to the most interesting things I find while working online. That's it.
If you need some music, I suggest: Bomb The Bass - Megablast [HD] - Bojan Z - Ashes To Ashes - Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Belize (feat. MF Doom) - Sefi Zisling - The Sky Sings - Obas Nenor's Extended Dub
#PEOPLE
[Video] A helmet has always been a good idea
The Vikings are here - wear a helmet! Helmets have protected our ancestors throughout centuries. Wear a helmet next time you mount your bike! The campaign is produced for the Danish Road Safety Council by NewLand Film and Co.Experience: I bake recipes I find on gravestones
It all started during lockdown. Like many people, I tried baking for the first time and got a TikTok account. Less commonly, I started learning a lot about cemeteries.[Video] - The Insane Cost of Cars
People underestimate how much owning a car costs by 52%. Even a cheap car costs a fortune to its owner, and yet another fortune to society. Let's compare it to some alternatives to show the insane real cost of cars.[Video] - The Japanese man who gets paid to 'do nothing' – BBC REEL
Shoji Morimoto provides a very unusual rental service to his clients in Tokyo, hiring himself out in order to, quite literally, do nothing. He has fashioned a career out of renting himself out to clients who simply don't want to be alone.Bring that beat back: why are people in their 30s giving up on music?
There are many things you notice as you plow deeper into your 30s. It’s a transitional period with incredibly visible milestones: babies, weddings, houses, more babies. What gets added to people’s lives can feel loud and inescapable – but often what drifts away is less visible.[Video] - HOW TO IRON A SHIRT? Ft Gus Fring | Better Call Saul
Gus Fring teaches you how to iron a shirt. There’s no room for wrinkles. Or doubts.
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[Video] - pocket operator for Pixel Introduction
A collaboration between Google and Teenage Engineering brings the power and fun of the PO-33 KO! Pocket Operator to your Pixel phone.[Video] - Voyage through Time - a Generative AI journey
This video was made with StableDiffusion, combining 36 prompts in a single, seamless video morph taking you on a trip through evolution.
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Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of digital devices, social media and other online platforms. For this analysis, we surveyed 1,316 U.S. teens. The survey was conducted online by Ipsos from April 14 to May 4, 2022.TikTok's Gen Z creators discuss why they signed the 'People Over Prime' pledge refusing to work with Amazon until it meets labor union demands
Young activists on TikTok are attempting to leverage their follower counts to stand up to e-commerce behemoth Amazon.
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A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16
This is your brain on venture capital.TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns
‘Beware in-app browsers’ is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user — given the potential for an app to leverage its hold on user attention to snoop on what you’re looking at via browser software it also controls.
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