[nonostantement #359] - spotify vs musicians / nokia archive / fight for your attention

Now with MORE Kowloon!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with dull, vulnerable, and arduous stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi I am Joele, I live in Barcelona but right now I am back in Italy for a couple of days. To be honest I usually live more on the Internet. There, while doing my job (I work with online content strategies) I find nice things. I collect them in this newsletter, that I have been sending every Sunday for the last six years.

A couple of nice tracks for you: Astrid Sonne - Everything is unreal - Valentina Magaletti EDIT, Reverend Baron - B Uno and Pedro Mizutani - Eu Pensei (Instrumental).

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

👉 The nonostantement archive - everything I sent in the past 6 years

🎵 #music on nonostantement - spotify playlist

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from L'Avventura - by Michelangelo Antonioni

#PEOPLE

• The Ghosts in the Machine
  Spotify’s plot against musicians

• Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance
  The Kowloon Walled City is known by many as the informal settlement that once existed seemingly out of place within modern Hong Kong. Many dared not enter this lawless zone that had developed a reputation as a place to be avoided, somewhere that harbored vice and illicit trades. A place where triads and criminals were in control and those brave enough to enter risked having their cameras smashed or worse their throats slit;1 apparently at odds with the rest of Hong Kong.

#TECH

• A treasure trove of tech history goes online with the unveiling of the Nokia Design Archive
  Aalto University launches the Nokia Design Archive, an online repository that charts the pioneering history of Finland’s legendary mobile phone manufacturer

• Bitcoin miner buys Texas wind farm to take it off power grid
  MARA Holdings Inc. announced last week that it purchased an energy facility in North Texas to power its Bitcoin mining operations.

• NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway
  The Traffic Cam Photobooth website from artist Morry Kolman lets you snap a pic as you pass a public camera. New York officials responded with a cease-and-desist, but Kolman is undeterred.

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#SOCIALMEDIA

• Here's What the Fight For Your Attention Really Looks Like
  One of the largest problems personified by the internet is shifting joy into competition. How does the dissolution of the line between personal and professional time impact our willingness to connect outside of our phones?

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