Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with bubbly, rational, and typical stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi, I am Joele, a digital consultant for companies, brands and institutions. I live In Barcelona, and from here every week I send an email, yes - the one you're reading right now. This email is made of a selection of links to the most interesting things I have encountered on the internet during the week, while I spend my time online working.
BTW, a couple of nice tracks for you: Kaytranada - Weight Off, Cochemea - Mitote and Djrum - Projection
#PEOPLE
Why Subway Surfers Find It So Hard to Quit
After losing several friends to subway surfing, Michael quit doing it. But for several other teens who have quit and then begun again, social media and the sheer thrill of the experience seem to draw them back again and again.[Video] - "ll Capo” (The Chief): a striking look at marble quarrying in the Italian Alps
Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani captures the otherworldly landscape of Carrara's marble quarries in the Apuan Alps, Northwest Italy, as Il Capo (The Chief) guides his men through the extraction process.[Video] - Wow!!! te reo Māori rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody
#TECH
How Google made the world go viral
From PageRank to Reader to Image Search, Google transformed online curation and internet virality. When did this cultural mainstay begin to lose relevance?
#SOCIALMEDIA
X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training
Another day, another company changing its terms in disfavour of privacy.The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok
TikTok’s dissociative identity disorder community feuded with doctors worried about malingering. The dispute raises questions over how the disorder’s presentation is evolving and who’s being influenced by it.Social Media Decline: Ending for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok
Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
#ART
The Daily Heller: Everyday Handmade Signs From Mexico City
"His name is Uriel Sánchez. He is a leteros (sign writer). His stall is inside Mexico City’s Mercado Central de Abastos—passageway No. 3, in between the entrances O-P and Q-R."
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#THEDARKSIDE
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may find an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police drone.
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