[nonostantement #244] - andy warhol vs copyright / non coercive marketing / plant machete
Now with LESS real names!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with bold, revolutionary, and offbeat stuff found all over the Internet.
Hola from Barcelona, Joele here. I'm sending you this email - as I do every Sunday - with the best things I've come across during the week, while doing my usual work online.
Some music: Minoru Muraoka - The Positive and the Negative, Pino Palladino + Blake Mills - Djurkel and Miri - Bassekou Kouyatei
#PEOPLE
[Video] - 김정기 Kim Jung gi Drawing show in 포항
2013 Pentel brush pen on paperWhy Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
A complex combination of outside pressures and information overload is driving young people to snub alcohol, far more than generations before them.Cars Are Vanishing from Paris
The share of journeys made by car in the city has fallen by nearly half, and the trend is only accelerating.The Andy Warhol Case That Could Wreck American Art
Without strong fair-use protections, a culture can’t thrive.Non-Coercive Marketing: A Primer
A new philosophy of marketing, rooted in letting go of control, and trusting people to be their own authority.
#TECH
The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
Illumina just announced a machine that can crack genomes twice as fast as its current version—and drive the cost down to $200 a pop.
#SOCIALMEDIA
The Real Name Fallacy
”People often say that online behavior would improve if every comment system forced people to use their real names. It sounds like it should be true – surely nobody would say mean things if they faced consequences for their actions?”
#ART
plant machete — David Bowen
This installation enables a live plant to control a machete. plant machete has a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical noises found in a live philodendron.
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#THEDARKSIDE
How Bots Corrupted Advertising
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.How TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use the App
Consumer Reports found that the company uses some of the same techniques as Google, Meta, and other companies to collect personal data‘No bad actors’: firms vow not to weaponize robots to avoid harm
Leading robotics firms promise not to add weapons to general use technology and said they would oppose others doing so
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