[nonostantement #347] - inactivity / youtube astrologers / room 641a

Now with MORE #people links!

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Hi, I’m Joele, and I help companies and brands shape their online content strategy. This means I spend way too much time browsing the internet, but I love it because I get to discover and share the coolest stuff with you every Sunday. Whether it’s the latest trends, inspiring articles, or hidden gems, I bring you here the best of what I find each week.

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Time Stretched No. 30 by Anton Repponen

#PEOPLE

• Walking as Inactivity
  “Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair. Coal and steel don’t do that. Lathes and typewriters don’t do that.”

• Once You Get the Message, Hang Up the Phone
  An exploration of social media's shortcomings in enacting material change.

• YouTube astrologers gain celebrity reading horoscopes in Pakistan
  Pakistanis follow the astrologers for advice amid economic, political, and environmental fears, despite criticism from conservative Islamic clerics.

• Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
  How our obsession with speed and efficiency might hinder our capacity for deeper thinking and decision-making, suggesting that slower, more deliberate processes could enhance our intelligence and well-being.

• The Users Who Overtook the Machine
  A relatively brief, entirely incomplete history of our ever-evolving online fashion fandom.

#TECH

• Up to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords stored in plain text
  Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, and were searchable by more than 20,000 Meta employee …

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#THEDARKSIDE

• Room 641A
  "Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency, as part of its warrantless surveillance program as authorized by the Patriot Act."

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