[nonostantement #257] - productivity blocker / luddite teens / trad wives
NOW with MORE cyberpunk fog!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with unknown, uncompromising, and unbelievable stuff found all over the Internet.
Hey everyone! My name is Joele and I spend a lot of my time working on brands and online content. In the process, I often come across some cool stuff that I love to share with my friends through this newsletter. In this week's edition, you'll find some of the most interesting things I've just discovered.
Music: The Chant - Artie Shaw, Flako - Moonchild, Fat Freddy's Drop - The Raft Steppers Dub, The Ethiopians - Engine 54 but don’t miss Artificial Intelligence - 1992 Contextual Mix and Oddcast 20 - Ian Anderson (The Designers Republic)!Don’t forget: 👉 THE NONOSTANTEMENT ARCHIVES 👈 are now online, containing all the links I have sent in almost 5 years of nonostantement.
#PEOPLE
INTERNET K-HOLE
Documenting life during the times when people didn't have access to social media (i.e. the 70s/80s)Productivity Blocker
Introducing the Productivity Blocker, the first Chrome extension for blocking any website that makes you productive.Japan’s Business Owners Can’t Find Successors. This Man Is Giving His Away.
An owner’s struggle in Japan’s northern dairy region illuminates one of the potentially devastating economic impacts of an aging society.Small teams
A page of impressive things accomplished by small teams.These ‘Luddite’ Teens Are Abstaining From Social Media
When the only thing better than a flip phone is no phone at all.[Video] - I Turned Logan Paul’s Scam Into a Working Game
I Made Logan Paul’s CryptoZoo Scam But you can play it for freeA Professional Artist Was Unfairly Accused Of Using AI
The artist known as Ben Moran said they were unjustly suspended from r/Art for posting their piece there.De La Soul's Music Is Finally Coming to Streaming Services in March
After decades of legal battles, the music of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul will finally be available on streaming services in March.How to Quit Your Job to Fight Climate Change
An ever-growing roster of people are leaving their jobs to pursue careers combating climate change.
#TECH
Putting Google Pixel's Real Tone to the test against other phone cameras
Google is trying to make its phone cameras more inclusive. We put it to the test against its greatest rivals.Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all.
According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.NYC Bans Students and Teachers from Using ChatGPT
The machine learning chatbot is inaccessible on school networks and devices, due to "concerns about negative impacts on student learning," a spokesperson said.Baldur Bjarnason on mastodom:
"Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set. This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set [...]"Arvind Sanjeev on Twitter:
"As promised, here is the full process thread for Ghostwriter - the #AI typewriter. A journey from idea to realization [...]"
#SOCIALMEDIA
Stop Using Social Media Apps. The Web Version Is Often Better
It’s all the same features, but none of the distractions or annoying notifications.TikTok's 'Trad Wives' Are Pushing a Conservative Agenda for Women
TikTok "Trad wives" stay at home and raise children while their husbands control the finances. They say they're happy. Feminists say they're promoting nostalgia for an America that never existed.
#ART
90's Directories
A compilation of designers and illustrators from numerous 90's graphic design directories
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WhatsApp adds official proxy support to help users circumvent internet blocks
WhatsApp is adding support for connecting to the messaging service via proxy. It’s a move that WhatsApp hopes will allow users to continue to stay connected, even if the service is blocked by governments.
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