[nonostantement #348] - map vs terrain / peak obesity / real art & brains

Now with MORE starlings!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with bright, unlatched, and untenable stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi, Joele here - I work with companies and brands to create online content strategies. This involves a lot of time spent exploring the depths of the internet (not complaining). I’m here - as every Sunday - to bring you the highlights of the past week.

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From “The art of flying” by Jan van IJken

#PEOPLE

• Adam Curtis: The Map No Longer Matches the Terrain
  In this extended Q&A, author Nathalie Olah speaks with BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Adam Curtis about climate change, and how nostalgia and doomerism are affecting our ability to organise for, and imagine, a better tomorrow.

• What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
  Cal Newport on how students and other writers are using chatbots such as ChatGPT in ways that have little to do with simple plagiarism.

• We may have passed peak obesity
  Weight loss drugs appear to be having an effect at the population level

• The moral panic over social media and teen depression
  "But despite all of the studies, there is still an almost complete lack of any evidence that social media use causes anxiety or depression in young adults."

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#TECH

• College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
  Two Harvard students have created a demo of how the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, LLMs, and public databases can be used to instantly doxx people.

• Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds
  Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and posters

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