[nonostantement #292] - gatto pernucci / rotten tomatoes & hollywood / musk & war
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I am Joele, an Italian digital consultant based in Barcelona. This is the e-mail I send every Sunday, with the best things I found on the Internet during the week, as I spend my life online.
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#PEOPLE
Airbnb's NYC Listings Could Be Down 70% after September 5
With less than a week to go until September 5, the vast majority of Airbnb's 23,000 active listings would be out of action when it comes to accepting stays taking place from registration day and onward.Rotten Tomatoes Still Has Hollywood in Its Grip
Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer, the most overrated metric in entertainment, is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. “Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do,” says filmmaker Paul Schrader.[In Italian] - I pionieri dello skateboard
Il Regionale, 31 maggio 1977
#TECH
Orthoprint, or How I Open-Sourced My Face
What if you had a chance to save money, make yourself happier, and stick it to the dental appliance industry, all in one shot?AI hallucinations: What you need to know stay accurate
Learn how AI hallucinations can cause serious damage to a brand's reputation and content quality, and what steps you can take to avoid them.
#SOCIALMEDIA
(1) idle gaze 054: the plight of the vibe tourist
"And as the swarm of largely middle-class tourists embark in large numbers to Paris, Sicily, Venice, Mykonos and beyond; a shaky turbulence appears in the wake of their travels. An unending stream of TikToks, Tweets and articles complaining about disastrous trips and horrible experiences, from the food in France, to the crowds in Italy and travel chaos in Greece."With five old phones and some Pew data, the BBC’s Marianna Spring monitors social media from the inside
“The reason I have to have undercover voters is because social media sites won't — and to some extent, can't — tell you exactly what they're recommending every single voter.”Why does everyone on TikTok talk like that?
On TikTok, influencers speak in enthusiastic, lilting tones – but why?
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#THEDARKSIDE
China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence operation
Groups linked with China’s law enforcement peppered more than 50 social media platforms with pro-Beijing messages, Meta says.New Elon Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”Buzzy AI Startup for Generating 3D Models Used Cheap Human Labor
Kaedim's founder was recently in a Forbes 30 Under 30 list for the company's 2D to 3D image conversion. In some cases artists produced the work wholecloth, one source said.
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