[nonostantement #340] - cats / uncool sightseeing / facebook & ai slop

Now with MORE links about cats!

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Ciao, sono Joele. This is my weekly newsletter. I send this stuff every Sunday, collecting all the best things I found on the internet while being there doing my job. I help companies and brand with their online content strategy. Or something like that.

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From the book “Epitaph”, by Brendon Burton

#PEOPLE

• Sea, sand and sky-high fees: Italians tussle over their right to lie on the beach
  Much of Italy’s beachfront is in the hands of family-run concessions who operate exclusive clubs or charge big money for umbrellas and loungers. But a new ruling is rallying activists on both sides

• [Video] - The Evolution of Olympic Performances, 1912 to 2020

• Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds
  US researchers say findings challenge view that cats are antisocial and suggest bereavement may be universal

• Inside Cat Video Fest: I Watched Cat Videos in a Movie Theater
  "I don’t even really like cats, and yet here I am, slightly hungover on a Saturday morning, shoving popcorn in my face at one of New York’s finest cinemas watching hundreds of kitty videos back to back to back on the big screen."

#TECH

• Deep Live Cam: Real-Time Face Swapping and One-Click Video Deepfake Tool
  Deep Live Cam is a cutting-edge AI tool that enables real-time face replacement in videos or images using just a single photo. Perfect for video production, animation, and more.

#SOCIALMEDIA

• Has social media made sightseeing deeply uncool?
  Social media has changed the way we travel and sightsee when on vacation, turning us into people who perform and curate the imagery we post in order to project an aesthetic or version of ourselves.

• Beware Trump's secret weapon: Elon Musk's X-Twitter
  Three ways for you and the Kamala Harris campaign to go “Twitter Last” by October

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#THEDARKSIDE

• Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
  Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram’s appeal to young people skirted search group’s rules for marketing to under-18s

• Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
  Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

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