[nonostantement #242] - museums vs anxiety / synthetic milk / ring nation
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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with reckless, revolutionary, and unorthodox stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello from myself a.k.a. Joele. I am an online communication consultant. I have a team of professionals helping me every day with my projects. When I'm not working with them I am usually online finding weird things. In this email you can see a collection of the latest interesting things I’ve found.
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[Video] - Reporters Ask Sidney Poitier His Views on Race (1968)
Watch as Poitier rips into reporters who are only interested in asking him questions on race, rather than focus on his work as an artist.Housing Insecurity Is A War — Trauma & All
"I wonder about the idea of permanent housing in a country where safe, stable homes and access to care have always been privileges reserved for the highest bidder, and what this means for our communities."Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits to treat anxiety
Psychiatrists in the city can now prescribe free visits to cultural venues to complement other treatments[Video] - Paralyzed Man Controls Two Robotic Arms With His Mind for the First Time Ever!
[…] researchers implanted a brain computer interface into a paralyzed man, allowing him to control limbs well enough to feed himself![Video] - The fast fashion graveyard in Chile's Atacama Desert - BBC News
The second-hand clothing trade is a well-established business in Chile. Traders import unwanted garments – mainly from Europe and the US - to resell locally and to other Latin American nations. But more than half of the 60,000 tonnes of clothes imported each year ends up in illegal desert landfill.‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years
Europe’s largest river restoration is making changes across the entire landscape, bringing benefits to wildlife and peopleTinder just opened a convenience store in Japan, aimed at adults only
SwipeMart made romantic dreams come true, and now there are hopes it’ll spread around the country.[Video] - WORLD OF TOMORROW
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future. 2016 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film.America’s False Idols
Today’s tech billionaires think they’re self-made geniuses who deserve veneration. But we don’t have to believe that.
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Leading the whey: the synthetic milk startups shaking up the dairy industry
Lab-grown dairy products, touted as the environmentally friendly option, have the potential to become major disruptorsAI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different
How we work — even think — changes when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges
Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.Luxury media
”In fact: No. Popups. Ever.”
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Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations
Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet.Say Hello to Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers – Krebs on Security
A number of financial institutions in and around New York City are dealing with a rash of super-thin “deep insert” skimming devices designed to fit inside the mouth of an ATM’s card acceptance slot.TikTok’s search engine repeatedly delivers misinformation to its majority-young user base, report says
When a TikTok user searches the social media app for information on top news stories, ranging from Covid-19 vaccines to school shootings, nearly 20% of the videos presented as search results contain misinformation, according to a research report published Wednesday.‘Ring Nation’ Is a Terrible Idea That’s Unstoppable Because Amazon Owns Everything
Amazon owns Ring, MGM, and production company Big Fish Entertainment. It owns Prime Video, and has the support of police around the country. What can stop it?
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