Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with accurate, meticulous, and uncivil stuff found all over the Internet.
Ciao, Joele here. I am based in Barcelona but I am currently travelling around Italy right now. This email is sent every Sunday to my friends, collecting all the best things I find online.
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Are there any humans left on the internet?
Clippy, the unhelpful animated paperclip, frustrated Microsoft users in the early 2000s. Now, Clippy is everywhereHow traffic noise hurts children's brains
As awareness grows of the toll noise has on children's health and learning, some cities show the way to quieter roads and classrooms.I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual
People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark[Video] - Grandma Built A MOTORIZED BED
Grandma Smith never wants to leave her bed, if it was up to her she'd snooze all day :( Me and the boys decided to build her a mobile bed [...][Video] - InspiroBot, where AI tries making Motivational Quotes
Can Artificial Intelligence Rethink Art? Should it?
There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.Why do people persecute city pigeons?
Feral pigeons were made by humans. Now we detest them. How did things go so wrong?
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reggaetonBeGone
Detects reggaeton genre with Machine Learning and sends packets to disable BT speakers (hopefully)dropofahat.zone
I am using AI to automatically drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers.Keep AI Weird
“AI is actually really weird, and I don’t think people appreciate that enough.”
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