[nonostantement #272] - listening phones / ai training data / imgur vs porn

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Hi there, my name is Joele. I am digital strategist, born and raised in Italy but now based in Barcelona. This is the newsletter in which I collect all the most interesting things I find wandering online while doing my work.

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Nicolas Datiche - Mai attends an online zashiki class during the Covid-19 pandemic at the Mangerô restaurant in June 2021.

#PEOPLE

• Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones
  A massive study of Upworthy headlines — remember Upworthy? — shows how a few emotionally charged words can mean the difference between viral and ignored.

• Is my phone listening to me? My story of the internet reading my mind.
  What do we mean when we say the internet is reading our minds?

• Booking.com De-Stresser
  A commentary on the overuse of persuasion tactics in e-commerce, and a Chrome Extension to reduce them.

• End-of-Life Dreams
  A hospice doctor makes sense of our final visions.

• ‘I’ve Never Hired A Writer Better Than ChatGPT’: How AI Is Upending The Freelance World
  While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves.

• Market Design: Brain Death
  Redefining death as "irreversible loss of consciousness" would enable more organ transplants, saving more lives. But would public opinion stand for it?

• What Is ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and How Can You Elevate Health Care
  Studies show female patients and people of color are more likely to have their symptoms dismissed by medical providers. Experts say: Keep asking questions.

• Gen Zers Base Travel Plans on Where 'White Lotus,' 'Bridgerton' Filmed
  Gen Zers and millennials are turning to movies and TV shows for travel inspiration in a trend dubbed set-jetting.

• Mike Sowden on Substack:
  "There is a place, a tiny hamlet at a road intersection north of Roscoe, N.Y., that simultaneously & without any contradiction, does and doesn't exist." (1/)

#TECH

• How Holly Herndon, Mathew Dryhurst, and HaveIBeenTrained saved 80 million images from A.I. giant Stable Diffusion.
  Two musicians brokered a deal to save 80 million images from Stable Diffusion. Are they enablers or heroes?

• How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
  Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.

• See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart
  An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

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#SOCIALMEDIA

• Why comments are the new creative brief
  We Are Social's executive editorial director, Charlie Cottrell, explains why online comments sections can be a strategist's secret weapon

• Imgur Is About to Wipe a Ton of Porn From the Internet
  Reddit’s favorite site for sharing porn is going to automatically delete all adult content soon.

• TikTok and Instagram advice influencers are here to correct you - Vox
  Everything is a "don’t" in the new era of influencing.

• For Lee Tilghman, There Is Life After Influencing
  The internet personality Lee From America wanted to see what life was like as plain old Lee Tilghman. She’s not alone. But leaving behind lucrative brand partnerships and high follower counts is harder than it looks.

#ART

• [Video] - Four-Byte Burger
  "Stuart Brown of Ahoy dives deep into one of the greatest pieces of digital art from the Amiga era – a gloriously colorful cheeseburger designed by Commodore’s Art Director Jack Haeger. Sadly, the original file wasn’t saved, so Ahoy reproduced it from scratch."

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