[nonostantement #337] - nasa & hiphop / new pornographers / tiktok & young voters

Now with MORE dark patterns on ryanair's website!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with undecorated, deadly, and boorish stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi, it's Joele, from Barcelona. For the past six years, I've been sharing links to some of the most interesting things I've found on the internet each week. This Sunday is no different. Below, you'll find a collection of articles, videos, and websites that caught my eye recently. I hope you find them as engaging as I did.

Soundtrack for today: El Michels Affair - Sha Na Na

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

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“In the Wonderfurryland No.8” by Kamwei Fong

#PEOPLE

• NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time
  The stars above and on Earth aligned as an inspirational message and lyrics from the song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” by hip-hop artist Missy Elliott were beamed to Venus via NASA’s DSN (Deep Space Network).

• [Video] - The Empty Seat - Paralympic Team Belgium

#TECH

• AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
  AI is cheaper than ever with OpenAI's latest announcement of gpt4-o mini. AI is so cheap now, that it's cheaper than the average ad impression.

#SOCIALMEDIA

• The New Pornographers
  It’s a TikTok world, creative and sprawling and strange and anarchic and tedious and gross and you can’t stop scrolling and you can’t stop looking and you just want more. So what’s the problem?

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#THEDARKSIDE

• YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos
  Once again, EleutherAI's data frustrates professional content creators.

• TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany
  Alternative for Germany-related content returned when searching for other parties.

• How one small company’s SEO garbage made it to Sports Illustrated and USA Today
  A company called AdVon Commerce was behind seemingly AI-generated content at Sports Illustrated and USA Today. Its cofounder, Ben Faw, has flooded the web with garbage for years.

• Inside Snapchat's Teen Opioid Overdose Crisis
  Drug dealers have used Snapchat to sell fake pills to teens, but these opioids are often laced with fentanyl, helping to fuel an overdose epidemic

• Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
  Ryanair is a prime example of a company that employs various manipulative techniques, known as "dark patterns," to increase its profits.

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