[nonostantement #240] plan vs strategy / stable diffusion & photoshop / rich preppers
NOW with MORE GPT-3!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with idiotic, experimental, and uncommon stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi, I'm Joele, I work online creating strategies for companies, brands and institutions. I live in Barcelona, more or less. This email collects all the most interesting things found last week while being in front of this same monitor I am using right now.
Some music: Aesop Rock - Kirby and Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media – In The Groove (1973) but be sure to watch this one > Foo Fighters ft. Shane Hawkins Perform "My Hero"!!!
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[Video] - "The Past Goes Fast"
Robert De Niro opens the doors of his father’s studio, preserved for almost thirty years, to the French artist JR. He discusses his complex relationship with his father, Robert De Niro Sr (1922-1993), an abstract expressionist painter.[Video] - A Plan Is Not a Strategy
A comprehensive plan—with goals, initiatives, and budgets–is comforting. But starting with a plan is a terrible way to make strategy. Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy, says developing strategy means going outside an organization’s comfort zone and escaping the common traps of strategic planning.[Video] - Mole People - Living in the Tunnels Beneath New York
Homeless man living in the Freedom Tunnel - an Amtrak train tunnel under the west side highway in New York City.The IKEA Effect - Why managers fall in love with their own ideas
The IKEA effect describes how people come to overvalue things in which they have successfully put effort into. This cognitive bias can pose risks to organisations in the form of sunk cost effects and “not invented here” syndrome.
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How to Create a Blog Post Title Optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News Data
GPT-3 says the title for this post is very bad.[Video] - Next-Gen Ai Graphic Tools are here! Combining Stable Diffusion with Adobe Photoshop
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Ireland fines Instagram a record $400 mln over children's data
”The investigation, which started in 2020, focused on child users between the ages of 13 and 17 who were allowed to operate business accounts, which facilitated the publication of the user's phone number and/or email address.”[Video] - Most RESTORATION videos are FAKE: how to spot them
A lot of restoration content on YouTube is fake, including gun restoration videos. This video is a short guide on how to spot fake restoration content, and it can be applied to videos featuring not only guns but steel/iron items in general.
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The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences‘I didn’t want it anywhere near me’: how the Apple AirTag became a gift to stalkers
A gadget the size of a 10p coin, the AirTag was intended to help people find their keys. Instead it has facilitated a boom in terrifying behaviour from abusersFacebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data
In a discovery hearing, two veteran Facebook engineers told the court that the company doesn’t keep track of all your personal data.
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