[nonostantement #342] - intellectual menopause / britain katsuification / tiktok llm

Now with MORE yellow clothing!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with undemanding, detached, and improvised stuff found all over the Internet.

Hey, I'm Joele. Every Sunday, I put together and send a list of the coolest stuff I found online during the week. I work with companies and brands on their online content strategies, and this newsletter is my way of sharing the insights and ideas that catch my eye.

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Chicago, August 1975 by Vivian Maier

#PEOPLE

• AI analysed 1,500 policies to cut emissions. These ones worked
  Only 63 climate change interventions led to significant reductions in carbon emissions.

• Why architects appreciate brutalism, even if you don't
  Many people think brutalist architecture is ugly. Architects make a case for why the buildings shouldn’t be torn down.

• Intellectual Menopause
  "An individual disease that men of particular temperaments and age range (40-50) are vulnerable to."

• The Katsuification of Britain
  How everything in Britain became katsu curry.

• ‘Software for witches’: tarot readers fight rampant online impersonation with their own tech
  Impersonators love tarot readers. Regulators and social media companies don’t care. Mystic practitioners fight back with Moonlight, ‘software for witches’

#TECH

• Are you smarter than a language model?
  A quiz to see how you compare to language models.

#SOCIALMEDIA

• Tiktok LLM
  Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.

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#THEDARKSIDE

• Yemen weapons dealers selling machine guns on X
  The traders operate in the capital Sana’a and other areas under control of the Houthis.

• TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
  Not only is TikTok’s algorithm promoting Neo-Nazi content, extremist organizations are also using the platform to recruit new members and encourage real-world action.

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