[nonostantement #256] - 🎊 hangovers / performative charity / neurotechnology failure
NOW with MORE graphed fetishes!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with unfamiliar, unyielding, and surprising stuff found all over the Internet.
Hope you all are having a nice start to the New Year! My name is Joele and I usually spend my time creating and managing brands and content online. I frequently find interesting material while working and I enjoy sharing my discoveries with my friends through this newsletter. Here you will find the best things I’ve found during last week.
Music: Faithless - We Come 1, HNNY - Kindness and Long Yellow Road - Toshiko AkiyoshiDon’t forget: 👉 THE NONOSTANTEMENT ARCHIVES 👈 are now online, containing all the links I have sent in almost 5 years of nonostantement.
#PEOPLE
Earthquake Fizz Calculator
How long after an earthquake is it okay to open a soda again?Fetish Tabooness vs Popularity
~250 fetishes, graphed for your pleasure[Video] - f*ckai? (famous) on Vimeo
A story about an A.I. that wanted to be famous, also written and performed by an A.I. (paraphrased and edited with liberties from a human).[Video] - How does alcohol cause hangovers? - Judy Grisel
Discover how alcohol impacts your body’s processes and causes hangovers, and find out what causes the most common hangover symptoms.
#TECH
AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence
Some scholars of AI warn that the present technologies may never add up to "true" intelligence or "human" intelligence. But much of the world may not care about that.
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[Video] - Let’s Talk About Performative Charity
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Mind Control in the Metaverse. If we’ve learned anything about…
If we’ve learned anything about technology over the last few decades, it’s that we don’t prepare for the downsides until the problems are so egregious, we can’t ignore them. The obvious example is…Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure
When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.
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