[nonostantement #251] - ai & music / pop stars & tiktok / twitter vs advertisers
Now with MORE stuff from the 90s!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with unhealthy, quick, and wacky stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello everyone. I'm Joele, I deal with online stuff for companies and brands. Here I collect all the most interesting things I find as I spend my time glued to this monitor. 250 emails and counting, 250 weeks… well, wow!
I'm planning something to celebrate, helped by a guy I found on upwork. I'll let you know next week ;)Music! Ezéchiel Pailhès - River Day and Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles and Brian Eno - Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace and Light (1) and Elyjah Slaps the Space
#PEOPLE
[In Italian] - Telemarketing. Al via il nuovo servizio telematico per segnalare al Garante comunicazioni indesiderate
For all Italians out there, this is good news ;)Banksy Encourages Fans to Steal From GUESS: “They’ve Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking”
The London store quickly shuttered its doors after Banksy's postKia’s Logo Is So Confusing That 30K People Google ‘KN Car’ Every Month
Kia’s new logo has hundreds of people Googling the brand incorrectly every day.[Video] - The 90s' Bad Days
#TECH
Pixel Vibe
Royalty free AI generated images.AI is helping to ID victims in Holocaust photos
A new facial recognition website is putting names to faces.It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse
Everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
#SOCIALMEDIA
Pop Stars Are Mugging for TikTok. Fans Are Loving It.
Performers like Dua Lipa and Rosalía are peppering their tours with dance moves and gestures that can seem specifically engineered to go viral. In some cases, they are.Last.fm turns 20 and now has a following on Discord
Plus, Neil Young says he’s ‘never going back’ to Spotify, and Spotify pushes ahead with audiobooks.In less than a month, Elon Musk has driven away half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers
These advertisers accounted for nearly $2 billion in spending on the platform since 2020
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Major tax-filing websites secretly share income data with Meta
Financial data was sent to Meta by TaxAct, H&R Block, and TaxSlayer.WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale
If you use WhatsApp, your details could well be up for sale
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