[nonostantement #341] - aerial ashes / phones vs sexyness / surveilled society

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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with simple, cold-hearted, and crude stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi, I'm Joele. Every Sunday, I share the most interesting things I discovered online throughout the week while working. My job is to help companies and brands with their online content strategy, and this newsletter is my way of passing on the best insights and inspiration I come across.

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#PEOPLE

• Aerial Ashes - Scatter Ashes by Drone
  Discover Aerial Ashes, pioneers in drone-based ash scattering services. Embrace a compassionate and innovative approach to memorialising your loved ones.

• How New York City Was Mapped by Air in 1924
  Long before Google Maps, an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured a groundbreaking view of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.

• Aren’t You Lonely?
  Friendship has become another joyless thing to do on a screen

• Stuck in the Scroll
  "This site reveals, in real-time, whether I—artist and professor Ben Grosser—am currently scrolling TikTok."

• Your phone is why you don't feel sexy
  "Remember this the next time you fall asleep to a TikTok playing on an endless loop: one day your heart will stop beating. The only thing that’s eternal is love."

• Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened?
  Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind"

• [Video] - 🔥 Hotline Shogun Toro | fixedgear

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#THEDARKSIDE

• Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
  We banned accounts linked to a covert Iranian influence operation using ChatGPT to generate website and social media content focused on multiple topics, including the U.S. presidential campaign. We have seen no indication that this content reached a meaningful audience.

• ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing
  Woolf: "OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror's next season."

• The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how
  Analysis - Artificial intelligence-enabled cameras on billboards, in bus windshields, on petrol station forecourts and in the checkout at the supermarket - all these are here, or about to be.

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