[nonostantement #267] - critical ignoring / laura snake / influencer parents & children
[nonostantement #267] - critical ignoring / laura snake / influencer parents & children
NOW with MORE The Roots!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with abnormal, chilly, and hilarious stuff found all over the Internet.
Ciao! My name is Joele, I live in Barcelona but I am Italian (at least this is what they told me). I live and work online so I always find a lot of interesting content that I share every week in this same email you are reading right now. And now. And now.
Music? Music: El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Grateful - De La Soul and The Roots - Stakes Is High - St. Vincent and The Roots - Glory Box
#PEOPLE
What Does Workplace TikTok Look Like During Layoffs? It Gets Weird
Tech and finance workers posted countless videos about the luxuries of their jobs — until the mood shifted.[Video] - We Cause Scenes (Full Length Improv Everywhere Documentary Film)
Since their humble beginnings in New York City in 2001, Improv Everywhere has grown from a small gang of restless jokesters into an internationally recognized prank collective and a viral video-making machine.Searching for Friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
"My hopeless, bizarre, maddening quest to find some friends in Horizon Worlds, which is Facebook’s — excuse me, Meta’s — home base in the metaverse."Biblioburro: The amazing donkey libraries of Colombia - BBC Culture
Travelling with his two loyal donkeys, Alfa and Beto, Luis Soriano has been spreading the joy of reading to children in rural Colombian communities for over 20 years.'Critical ignoring' is critical thinking for the digital age
Critical thinking helps us to evaluate the information we come across, but it may not be enough in a digital world that contains more information than the world’s libraries combined.My biggest surprise of the week? I have a naked lookalike – and he is making a fortune on OnlyFans
It seems people are paying Mike, who looks a bit like me, to read out the football scores while stripping. What’s the world coming to?
#TECH
Jackson Greathouse Fall on Twitter:
"I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business?"Artists Finally Have A Tool To Fight Back Against 'AI' Theft
Glaze is a new tool made by researchers at the University of Chicago
#SOCIALMEDIA
It's time to take back control of what we read on the internet
Social-media algorithms show us what they want us to see, not what we want to see. But there is an alternative.Laura Snake - The real story
Laura Snake is a fake influencer - every single photo, comments or photo captions is generated with AI. Followers, likes and views, also generated with automated bots.Influencer Parents and Their Children Are Rethinking Growing Up On Social Media
The children of influencer parents speak out as a growing trend of removing kids off social media emerges.
#MUSIC
[Video] - De La Soul is Not Dead (Documentary)
#PHOTOGRAPHY
Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about
"How can photojournalists protect themselves and their livelihoods right now?"
#THEDARKSIDE
Colorado Catholic group bought app data that tracked gay priests
The group used the data to find clerics who used Grindr and other dating and hookup apps and shared their work with bishops, a Post investigation has found.China's Censors Are Afraid of ChatGPT
Artificial intelligence development may get held up for political reasons.
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