[nonostantement #246] - growing old online / gamers vs nft / digital productivity
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Growing Old Online
Millennials, the first generation to be online as kids, are starting to feel like we’ve aged out. Is there a way to age gracefully on the internet?Marmalade sales surged as mourners left sandwiches for Queen Elizabeth II
Mourners also left jars of marmalade for Britain's longest-serving monarch, who once told Paddington Bear in a skit she kept a stash in her handbag.
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A disruptive new entertainment venue: inside the cutting-edge MSG Sphere
Set to open in 2023, the Las Vegas attraction will be home to the world’s highest resolution LED screen and will hold up to 20,000 spectatorsHow Gamers Beat NFTs
Fans have largely triumphed against the gaming industry’s efforts to incorporate nonfungible tokens—and this is one mutiny that may really matter.
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Trying to Escape the Trap of Digital Productivity
I felt sick with despair that I wasn’t out in the physical world, so I built a digital identity with the things I had to hand.Over the past two years, I’ve taken up jigsaw puzzles.
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Behind TikTok’s Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-A-Day Content Moderators
”The existence of a low-paid, insecure global workforce may be exacerbating the problem, Carthy says. More computing power is required to analyze videos, which are more complex than photos and text. This means creating AI for moderating video is especially expensive.”
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