[nonostantement #247] - velcro shoes / infinite conversation / biodigital surveillance
Now with MORE commodore musical instruments!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with intrepid, cheeky, and whimsical stuff found all over the Internet.
Ciao, Joele here. I work online, and I work a lot. So I find a lot of nice stuff on the internet. I collect links and share them here. It’s like my thing. I’ve been doing this for like 1.700 days or even more. Am I crazy?
Some music for you: Maria Callas sings "Casta Diva" (Bellini: Norma, Act 1) (yes) but then Two Fingers vs. Muadeep: Lost Gods and Former - Fogweaver
#PEOPLE
I Am Tired of Watching People Go to Italy
Major networks, I am pleading: There are other countries[Video] - Samantha Cristoforetti - 2022 A Space Odyssey. Turns out, yes, you can walk with Velcro shoes. Slowly, very very slowly
[Video] - The Commodordion
A fully functional 8-bit accordion with bellows made out of floppy disks.[In Italian] - Gipi: “Abbiamo bisogno di buone storie, consapevolezza e solitudine”
The Infinite Conversation
An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. Everything you hear is fully generated by a machine. The opinions and beliefs expressed do not represent anyone. They are the hallucinations of a slab of silicon.
#TECH
Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI
The stock image company is also promising to reimburse creators whose work is used to train AI art models with a new Contributors Fund.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
”On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed.”
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The wild, wonderful world of North Korean smartphones
3G service and built-in mosquito repellant are a few features you'll find on North Korean smartphones.TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.The Rise of Biodigital Surveillance
”Recently, as I was about to go through airport security, a saleswoman intercepted me asking if I wished to skip the security line. Intrigued, I invited her to tell me more. She shuttled me over to the CLEAR electronic kiosk and explained how the product worked. […]”
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