[nonostantement #297] - social media & oversharing / group chat culture / spotify & laundering money
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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with entertaining, legal, and orthodox stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello there. My name is Joele, I live in Barcelona but I spend most of my time online. I collect the most interesting things I find on the internet and then send them in this same email, every Sunday.
Soundtrack: The Chakachas - Stories
#PEOPLE
Airlines Are Just Banks Now
They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes—and it shows.Something’s Gone Wrong With Airbnb
At this point, the company hardly seems part of the gig economy at all.[Video] - Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes
How many of these cars have you spotted before?When Museum Workers Take Over Their Institutions' Walls
The Met’s staff art exhibition made headlines when it opened to the public last year. As it turns out, these shows are anything but rare.Well Woven's new rugs are a data set hidden in plain sight
Well Woven partnered with Pentagram's Giorgia Lupi on its new 'Unraveling Stories' collection.The Most Dangerous Thing in Culture Right Now is Beauty
”You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....” fromWhy the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets.
#TECH
[Video] - Bionic hand merges with user's nervous and skeletal systems, remaining functional after years
Description and demonstration of the first below-elbow neuromusculoskeletal prosthesis.“Hallucinating” AIs Sound Creative, but Let’s Not Celebrate Being Wrong
The term “hallucination,” which has been widely adopted to describe large language models (LLMs) outputting false information, is misleading. Its application to creativity risks compounding that.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Why we overshare on Instagram, TikTok, and other social media
Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.Group-Chat Culture Is Out of Control
The most social social media these days is … texting. And it’s gotten overwhelming.Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows
Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how people evolved to learn from each other. One result is more conflict and misinformation.The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X
The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.
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#THEDARKSIDE
People Exploited YouTube Bug to Upload “Undeletable” Porn Videos
Communities of YouTube hackers and YouTube porn searchers discovered a bug that broke the platform's interface and kept hardcore porn on the site for weeks.23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online
A database that has been shared on dark web forums and viewed by NBC News has a list of 999,999 people who allegedly have used the service.Report: Spotify is being used by criminal gangs to launder money in Sweden
Criminla gangs linked to contracy killings and a spate of bombings reportedly use fake Spotify streams to launder their money, according to a new report from the Scandinavian country.
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