[nonostantement #355] - resignation agencies / broligarchy / ben affleck vs ai
Now with MORE links about Elon Musk!
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Hello, I am Joele and this is the place where I collect all the best things I find online while working at content strategies for my clients. I am Italian but I live in Barcelona, Spain. To be honest, most of the time I am not even there, I am on the Internet.
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“They Ripped Up My Resignation Letter”: 1 in 5 Japanese Workers in Their 20s Turn to Resignation Agencies
Workers are often not allowed to quit and have nowhere else to turn.The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystemHow to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillanceOllolai: Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the election result
While many communities around the world have been wondering what to make of Donald Trump’s presidential re-election victory, Ollolai on the Italian island of Sardinia has sniffed a potential opportunity.Elon Musk’s transformation, in his own words
Our analysis of 38,000 posts on X reveal a changed manIMG_0001
Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos!
#TECH
Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made
"Which sounds get filtered out of a song to make the file smaller was determined in 1993 by a group of European sound engineers using songs like Tracy Chapman’s 'Fast Car,' and Vega’s 'Tom’s Diner.'"[Video] - AI doesn’t stand a chance against actors, or Shakespeare: Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck co-founder & CEO at Artists Equity, and Gerry Cardinale, founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer at RedBird Capital Partners, join CNBC's Delivering Alpha 2024 to discuss their partnership, various opportunities in the media industry, and more.La Basilica di San Pietro
Making cultural heritage more accessible with AI
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ChrisO_wiki on Bluesky:
"X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology."Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged
Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.
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