[nonostantement #352] - olivetti / suspicious friendliness / facebook & extremists

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Ciao, mi chiamo Joele e questa è una intro in italiano, tanto non lo legge nessuno. Non è manco la prima volta che ne scrivo uno in italiano. Vivo su internet, anche per via del mio lavoro, dove trovo cose interessanti che mando tutte le settimane in questa newsletter. Fate ammodino.

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#PEOPLE

• Why do the “anti-woke,” heterodox tech bros love Cybertrucks and energy drinks?
  The heterodoxy, or the “anti-woke” tech bro set, explained.

• Redditors Are Trying to Poison Google's AI to Keep Tourists Out of the Good Restaurants
  What is the best place to grab a steak in London?

• Olivetti’s Ivrea: How an Italian Tech Giant Built the World’s Most Progressive Company Town
  If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells with melting snow from the Matterhorn, you will quietly arrive at what first appears to be any other small Italian town. Yet in the 1950s, Ivrea was the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working.

• Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
  It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.

• Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You
  Coresight AI has released a new product that sends alerts to store security when customers and staff have anomalous interactions.

• Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade
  Irish revellers flooded the streets of Dublin expecting a Halloween parade last night. The only problem? No parade had been organised.

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#THEDARKSIDE

• Man who used AI to create child abuse images jailed for 18 years
  Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, jailed after transforming normal pictures of children into sexual abuse imagery.

• Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight
  Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

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