[nonostantement #344] - chatgpt & church / disposable vapes & batteries / tiktok & elections

Now with MORE mushrooms with robot bodies!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with placid, unbiased, and impetuous stuff found all over the Internet.

Hello everyone, my name is Joele and I spend a lot of time online as I deal with content strategy for companies and brands. Spending a lot of time online I often find absurd things. This email is where I collect them and send them to friends, every week.

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Tokyo Compression #128, 2009 - by Michael Wolf

#PEOPLE

• ChatGPT Goes to Church
  Should large language models write sermons and prayers?

• Philippines' Call Centers Navigate AI Impact on Jobs
  The experiences of staff in the Philippines’ outsourcing industry are a preview of the challenges and choices coming soon to white-collar workers around the globe.

• How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices
  For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks

• Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
  Ted Chiang on how artificial intelligence still isn’t as intelligent as it is perceived to be and how its profound limitations should temper our fears about it replacing real art-making.

#TECH

• [Video] - Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank
  In this video I use 35 disposable vape batteries to create a fast charge power bank that can even charge laptops.

• Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
  Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells.

• Few have tried OpenAI’s Google killer. Here’s what they think.
  OpenAI’s search tool shows promise but lacks Google’s specialized functions and can suffer from hallucinations.

• Challenging The Myths of Generative AI
  Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

#SOCIALMEDIA

• How to make money on TikTok live battle: debate the U.S. election
  Teens are using TikTok live battle to get points — and make money — by debating Trump vs. Harris and other U.S. politics.

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#THEDARKSIDE

• What Your Smartphone Knows About You
  Tensions such as this haunt our attitudes to the digital economy. We want privacy, but we also want free information and entertainment, the economics of which often depend on targeted advertising.

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