[nonostantement #307] - missing the internet / predicting human lives / facebook vs ai generated images
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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with consistent, flattering, and powerful stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello! It's Joele here, reaching out from Rome, today. In this newsletter I share with you the finest internet gems I've gathered over the past week, during my online wanderings.
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#PEOPLE
Nigeria’s filmmakers turn to YouTube for distribution
Filmmakers in Nigeria stream their movies exclusively on YouTube to control distribution, fight piracy, and increase earnings.This Is Where All Your Holiday Returns End Up
I ventured into the belly of the holiday-returns beast.The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
Callum John Grubb is only 19 but he is obsessed with everything from the 1940s, including his car.Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order
"Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone."I miss the internet.. A love letter to webmasters and…
The real internet. The one we used to have. Before it all got so much less – and somehow so much more – complicated.
#TECH
Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Raising Millions to Reinvent Transit
The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.Suno AI
We are building a future where anyone can make great music. No instrument needed, just imagination. From your mind to music.Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives
"Our models allow us to predict diverse outcomes ranging from early mortality to personality nuances, outperforming state-of-the-art models by a wide margin."
#SOCIALMEDIA
Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore
Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world
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#THEDARKSIDE
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real
The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.
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