[nonostantement #345] - pentiums & navajos / jennifer / granfluencers
Now with MORE blue!
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Ciao, I'm Joele. All week long, I’m always browsing around the internet, stumbling across cool stuff that I pull together and share in this Sunday email. I spend way too much time online, but it’s part of my job helping companies and brands figure out their online content strategy.
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[Video] - A Zen Buddhist priest voices the deep matters he usually ponders in silence
‘If we have any chance at all, then this is our chance – that we become calm’: a Zen Buddhist meditates on humanity’s fateIs My Blue Your Blue?
People have different names for the colors they see. Language can affect how we memorize and name colors. This is a color naming test designed to measure your personal blue-green boundary.
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UC Davis creates ‘most accurate’ brain tech to help ALS patient speak
A new brain-computer interface can translate ALS patient's brain signals to speech with 97% accuracy—the highest ever achieved yet.The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
"the striking visual similarity between the designs of traditional Navajo weavings and modern integrated circuits"Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image
One holiday snap has been manipulated thousands of times on thousands of computers. Gordon Comstock on how a woman on a beach in Bora Bora taught the world to tinker with pictures.
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Meet the Granfluencers
From funeral fits to dating hacks, elderly TikTokers are slaying online.
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