[nonostantement #243] - generation amazing / firehosing / chocolate diet
NOW with MORE exclamation marks!!!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with audacious, radical, and different stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi, Joele here, this is my weekly newsletter, with all the things I collected online last week, while working at stuff in front of this same display. Nobody really reads these intros.
Some music: My Queen Is Nanny Of The Maroons and Theme for Us (feat. Chip Wickham) and The Morning Side of Love
#PEOPLE
Creative Resources
”[…] Whether you’re a photographer, artist, illustrator or any creative looking to start your freelance journey or wanting to take your career to the next level, there’s something here for you. The collection of links below cover topics like: how to get your work in a gallery, how to price your work, and how to make a living from your art.”Unauthorized Shein boutiques are popping up across Mexico
Customers get a similar experience from buying on the app, but what they most want is the human touch.The male beauty rebellion in China | Financial Times
Foreign groups are losing ground against nimble local upstarts in the $10bn marketGeneration Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power
Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the “Maxim of Extravagance”
#TECH
Make-A-Video is a state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.
Make-A-Video research builds on the recent progress made in text-to-image generation technology built to enable text-to-video generation. The system uses images with descriptions to learn what the world looks like and how it is often described. It also uses unlabeled videos to learn how the world moves. With this data, Make-A-Video lets you bring your imagination to life by generating whimsical, one-of-a-kind videos with just a few words or lines of text.
#SOCIALMEDIA
LinkedIn Ran Social Experiments on 20 Million Users Over Five Years
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.
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Firehose of falsehood
The firehose of falsehood, or firehosing, is a propaganda technique in which a large number of messages are broadcast rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels (such as news and social media) without regard for truth or consistency.I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.
This site tells you if photos of you been used to train the AI
Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online, testing the limits of free speech on the internet.
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