[nonostantement #294] - tank museum / weather influencers / AI-nxiety
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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with jovial, legitimate, and normal stuff found all over the Internet.
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My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies
It’s common now for people to linger as digital ghosts after they die, transforming the nature of loss.Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air
Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year[Video] - People in 1993 react to credit cards being accepted at a #burgerking
Boy Problems
The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. Instead, it’s making them miserable.The Tank Museum Has 300 Armored Vehicles and Over 100 Million YouTube Views
Only a few hundred thousand people visit The Tank Museum, in the English countryside, each year. But on YouTube, it’s more popular than the Met and MoMA.So Post-Pandemic, What’s My Age Again?
COVID has warped our perception of time. But if we slept through three years of normal life development, how old are we exactly? This pandemic skip is the strange sensation that our bodies might be a step out of sync with our minds.We're all lurkers now
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No one's talking online anymore. (byIndia’s weather influencers are faster than official channels
Weather influencers who provide hyper-local weather predictions via X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and WhatsApp, are gaining popularity in India.[Video] - They Built a New City in Guatemala And It's STUNNING
[Video - I'm Flying! Handmade Pesticide Spraying Mech
"Every time I spray pesticides, I'm afraid it will cause harm to my body. That's why I built a mech suit, and even fly while wearing it!"
#TECH
Generative AI-nxiety
The cacophony of alarms around generative AI has left leaders disoriented and concerned, particularly given that generative AI is available to everyone within their organizations, not just data scientists. There are at least four cross-industry risks that organizations need to get a handle on: the hallucination problem, the deliberation problem, the sleazy salesperson problem, and the problem of shared responsibility. Understanding these risks in detail can help companies plan how they want to address them.Generative AI exists because of the transformer
The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation[Video] - What happens if you don’t put your phone in airplane mode?
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#SOCIALMEDIA
There's A Deadly Drinking Problem On TikTok
While the app has strict rules prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, creators are still allegedly making money drinking to excess — and at least one has died.[Video] - This Tiny Mistake Almost Cost MrBeast Millions
"Most of the time content creators handle all aspects of their channels on their own - but the larger creators who have scaled their business by hiring large teams to help them reach new heights sometimes run into the problem I will be highlighting in this video!"TikTok Is Letting People Shut Off Its Infamous Algorithm—and Think for Themselves
TikTok is making its algorithm optional for users in the European Union. But more legal and design changes are necessary to protect people's right to "cognitive liberty."
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Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't
Ticketmaster's "Verified Fan" system doesn't help fans. It helps scalpers who have hundreds of accounts, use special internet browsers, and have dozens of credit cards.
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