[nonostantement #338] - bad person / adv bans / aesthetic thief

Now with LESS advertising billboards!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with plain, dangerous, and uncivilized stuff found all over the Internet.

Hey, it's Joele from Barcelona. For the past six years, I've been curating and sharing a weekly roundup of the most fascinating things I find online. This Sunday, I'm sending you a fresh collection of articles and websites that recently grabbed my attention.

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Magic of Water, Koji Takashima - Japan, 1951

#PEOPLE

• [Video] - WINNING ISN’T FOR EVERYONE | AM I A BAD PERSON? | NIKE

• On the Tibetan Plateau, A Ceremony Honors the Earth
  On the Tibetan Plateau, a laptse ceremony connects communities to the land and its guardians.

• Switzerland: Zurich, Bern Consider Billboard Advertising Bans
  The nation’s Supreme Court ruled governments could act to limit “visual pollution” and citizens could “opt out of unwanted advertising.”

#TECH

• The love letter generator that foretold ChatGPT
  Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking algorithm to write love letters, long before ChatGPT.

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#SOCIALMEDIA

• We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
  Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight

• Can you sue someone for copying your aesthetic?
  A lifestyle TikToker is suing another lifestyle TikToker for copying her ‘aesthetic’

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