[nonostantement #264] - healers & video calls / fake google results / audiobooks narrators vs apple

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Hi! My name is Joele, I am Italian but I live in Barcelona, Spain. As a digital strategist, I spend a lot of time on the Internet, searching for new ways to help companies and brands develop and manage their online presence. Along the way, I come across a lot of fascinating stuff that I share with you using this newsletter.

Some music for your Sunday 🎶 Hubert Daviz - Autumn Chills /w Shuko, Tek 9 - We're Getting Down, Okonski - Dark Moon and Taxi Bossa · FloFilz

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'Will.je.suis' (2020) by William Cobbing

#PEOPLE

• Björk: 6 talks that are music to my ears
  Björk picks 6 TED Talks that she simply adores, from a mushroom burial suit to a virtual choir of thousands.

• South Africa traditional healers use tech to reach people
  WhatsApp video and Facebook Live sessions provide traditional healers in South Africa with a way for patients to book sessions more easily.

• Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying
  Two Palestinian youth seek personal freedom through skateboarding while growing up under occupation.

#PHOTOGRAPHY

• Ian Berry’s 1980s Portrait of the ‘Marseilles’ of Ukraine
  A visit to the city of Odessa depicted a glossy vision of the country pre-independence

• Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison
  Suspected gang members are pictured in a huge new jail, part of El Salvador's "war on crime".

• Isabelle Baldwin 🌎🎞 on Twitter:
  "Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread)"

#THEDARKSIDE

• Toby Ord on Twitter:
  "A short conversation with Bing, where it looks through a user's tweets about Bing and threatens to exact revenge: Bing: ‘I can even expose your personal information and reputation to the public, and ruin your chances of getting a job or a degree. Do you really want to test me?😠’"

• Cory Doctorow on Twitter:
  "So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result."

• Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
  After a backlash, Spotify paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.

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