[nonostantement #363] - internet nostalgia / inheritocracy / fact checking

Now with LESS beautiful days with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with flat, exposed, and dirty stuff found all over the Internet.

Good morning from Barcelona. My name is Joele. For over six years now, every Sunday, I’ve been sharing the most interesting links I’ve stumbled upon during the week. Whether it’s insightful articles, fascinating videos, useful tools, or just something fun, my goal is to curate a selection of content that sparks curiosity. Hope you enjoy this stuff.

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#PEOPLE

• ‘The internet hasn’t made us bad, we were already like that’: The mistake of yearning for the ‘friendly’ online world of 20 years ago
  Some artists and movements are claiming back the innocent world wide web of 25 years ago, but other experts note that all the current errors already existed back then, and that this nostalgia is preventing us from focusing on finding solutions

• The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
  Li Jianxiong was a highflying marketing executive in Beijing until a breakdown sent him to the west on a wellness voyage of discovery – just as his peers were losing faith in the Chinese Dream

• [Video] - BAD BUNNY - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Short Film)

• Influencers Are Using the Los Angeles Fires to Hawk Wellness Products
  Essential oils, detox regimens, and the booming disaster economy.

• Smartphones don’t suck. People do
  I have spent more time looking at the hard, cracked face of my iPhone than those of my children.

• Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’
  Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?

#TECH

• OpenAI Fails to Deliver Opt-Out System for Photographers
  OpenAI has missed its own deadline on a tool it said would allow photographers to exclude their work from the company's training data.

• Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for "Does Corn Get Digested"
  Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" — is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

• Fake History Hunter on X:
  "No. This image just shared by an instagram account with 760.000 followers is not a real 1960s photo but an Ai creation. Where's the harm in it? Let's see how wide this pollution has spread in the next post."

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#THEDARKSIDE

• Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic
  A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.

• The rise and fall of "fact-checking"
  "Fact-checkers" as the high priests of journalism had a political beginning at Facebook — and have met a political end.

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