[nonostantement #239] loved one launcher / prompt marketplace / tiktok therapists
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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with silly, practical, and unusual stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi, I'm Joele, I design and manage online strategies for companies, brands and institutions. I spend a lot of time online, and I bump into a lot of weird stuff. This email collects some of this stuff. Please sit down, it’s a lot of stuff.
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#PEOPLE
[Video] - The Future Of The 1920s
"Futurism" is what people believed the future would be like at a given time. Similarly, "retrofuturism" is futurism of the past. Most people think of Victorian futurism (steampunk) and 1950s/1960s futurism (atompunk). 1920s futurism sits right in the middle, mostly forgotten […][Video] - Supermarket Time Portal 1971 | Grocery Shopping with Muzak
We found the time portal that leads us into 1971 Supermarket, USA.
How our brains cope with speaking more than one language
Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the words, grammar and even accents can get mixed up. This can reveal surprising things about how our brains work.[Video] - 1972: 84 year-old woman has an INDOOR CARAVAN | Nationwide | Classic BBC Clips
Jack Pizzey tells the amazing story of Mrs Mary Anderson, an 84 year-old camping enthusiast who keeps two caravans (they're Birmingham tourers, since you asked) in her house. She sleeps in one and uses the other as a guest room - and has a third one parked outside […]Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered why it is the shape or size it is? Time to dust off some high-school level maths to investigate.[Video] - The Loved One Launcher is a Cremation Ash Scattering Cannon Cremation Urn
Blast Cremation Ashes up to 75 ft into the air. The Loved One Launcher assist the cremation ash scattering process allowing for a scattering ceremony that ends with a BANG! Add confetti and streamers to the cremation urn for a celebratory effect.Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit
“Alexa, play ‘Poopy Stupid Butt’ again.”
#TECH
DALL-E + GPT-3 Prompt Marketplace
Find top prompts, produce better results, save on API costs, make money selling prompts.This Teenager Invented a Low-Cost Tool to Spot Elephant Poachers in Real Time
Seventeen-year-old Anika Puri created a machine-learning-driven model that analyzes the movement patterns of humans and elephantsWhy YouTube decided to make its own video chip
With YouTube designing its own custom chips, the company joins a growing group of big tech companies seeking to offer something unique in the data center. Operating behind the scenes, Argos made YouTube’s data centers much more efficient.Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.Karen X. Cheng - 1/ Using AI to generate fashion After a bunch of experimentation I finally got DALL-E to work for video by combining it with a few other AI tools
An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
Jason Allen's AI-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Online creators are de facto therapists for millions. It’s complicated.
Faced with explosive demand and few safeguards, mental-health content creators are defining their own ethics.How one TikToker convinced folks he was an AI-generated character
“The goal was never to trick people,” creator Curt Skelton tells Input. “They did that to themselves.”So your kid wants to be an influencer
“Influencer” has become one of the most aspirational jobs for kids and adults. What now?Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme
A jeweler. A plastic surgeon. An OnlyFans Model. They and others received a blue check in likely the biggest Instagram verification scheme revealed to date. After ProPublica started asking questions, Meta removed badges from over 300 accounts.Majority of posts on extremist online forums made by “hyper” poster cliques, study shows
Dr Brace said: “We found in all forums there was a small clique of extremely active posters who occupy central roles in discussions. Extremist forums are hierarchical echo-chambers.”
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There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one.
While America made the network that would become the internet, programmers in Chile were building a vision of their own.French Tax Authorities Used Google AI to Snuff Out More than 20,000 Undeclared Swimming Pools
Collectively, the pools were reportedly worth more than $10 million in undeclared tax revenues.Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k?
How Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFFHackers created an enormous traffic jam in Moscow
Hackers meddled with ride-hailing service Yandex Taxi to create a two-hour-long traffic jam in the Russian capital.Saudi Arabians are using a widely available Google and Apple store app to report activists who speak out against the government. Some have received harsh sentences while others are self-censoring.
While Google and Apple have policies against apps that encourage harassment and discrimination, Kollona Amn is still available on both platforms.
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