[nonostantement #253] - spam war / everyone vs instagram / ai vs rent
NOW with MORE pictures of cats!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with exquisite, strong, and unreliable stuff found all over the Internet.
Have a good Sunday, especially to the new members! I'm Joele and every week I send an e-mail to my friends with the most interesting things found during the week. I spend a lot of time online working on presence and content for companies and brands, so I see a lot of stuff. Here's the best.
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#PEOPLE
[Video] - The Greatest | Apple
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a human right.[Video] - This Place Rules | Official Trailer
"You ever feel like you’ve gone too far down the rabbit hole, man?”[In Italian] - Città in affitto: indagine sui proprietari
Come la casa è diventata un asset finanziario in Europa. Un confronto tra le città in trasformazione.[Video] - China's Van Goghs: The Village That Paints Thousands Of Fakes A Year | Perspective
Until 1989, the village of Dafen in the city of Shenzhen, China was little more than a hamlet. It now has a population of 10,000, including hundreds of peasants-turned oil painters. In the many studios, and even in the alleyways, Dafen’s painters turn out thousands of replicas of world-famous Western paintings. Nobody thinks anything of an order for 200 Van Goghs. To meet their deadlines, painters sleep on the floor between clotheslines strung with masterpieces. In 2015, the turnover in painting sales was over $65 million.
#TECH
Fake is real (@fake_is_real______)
”I use artificial intelligence to generate portrait photography, captions, and storytelling! I'm using a combination of computer vision and natural language processing to create unique portrait photography. I love using #midjourney for the portraits, and when it comes to captions and storytelling,” I started using #chatGPT, creating captions and stories that capture the essence of the portrait photography, exploring new ways of storytelling.”Man Alarmed to Become Only Guest at $400,000 Metaverse Party
"After initial bemused chats with the roughly five other humans who showed up, I am alone."Can AI Write Authentic Poetry?
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.ASTRIAGraph
The goal of ASTRIAGraph is to achieve space safety, security, and sustainability. It supports Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs) visualization and tracking, as well as space traffic management queries through a publicly-accessible web platform.
#SOCIALMEDIA
TikTok expected to escape the worst of the global ad slowdown | Financial Times
Other big social media groups forecast to lose market share to viral video platform.Everyone’s Over Instagram - The Atlantic
The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.Elections in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war - Rest of World
10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people’s feed” in Gujarat.Where Do Memes Come From? The Top Platforms From 2010-2022
From the rise of TikTok to the Boomerification of Facebook, our data tells many important stories. We take a look back at the history of meme origins from the last decade-plus to infer how the internet and its culture have evolved.Instagram’s new transparency tools will tell you if your content is ineligible to be recommended | TechCrunch
Instagram announced today that it's introducing new transparency tools so you can see whether or not your photos and videos are recommended in the app.
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Italy home to 11 of 100-plus unofficial Chinese ‘police stations’ | Italy | The Guardian
Civil rights group claims outposts are used to monitor Chinese population abroad and force dissidents to returnAn AI Algorithm is Raising Rents on Hundreds of Thousands of People Across the Country
Parasitic corporate landlords are crushing the real economyChinese Students Invent Coat That Makes People Invisible to AI Security Cameras
“Security cameras using AI technology are everywhere. They pervade our lives... Our privacy is exposed,” a researcher told VICE World News.Thanks to AI, it’s probably time to take your photos off the Internet | Ars Technica
AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.John McElhone on Twitter
"The photo of the U.S. Air Force's new stealth aircraft is on the left, taken at night, with stars in the background. We can use them to find the exact location of the jet"
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