[nonostantement #365] - ai regulation / algorithmic ranking / data purge

Now with MORE moss on the floor!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with polished, pure, and uneven stuff found all over the Internet.

It’s Joele here. Every Sunday, like clockwork, I send out this little email to my friends. Been doing it for over six years now—no big deal, just me on a mission to share the best stuff I stumble upon on the internet each week. Think of it as a lovingly assembled mixtape, but instead of tracks, it's weirdly fascinating things from the far corners of the web. No fluff, no algorithms.

BTW, some good music: Bex Burch - Dawn blessings and Domenique Dumont - To Unknownia

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

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"Untitled #3" from the series "Home", by Gohar Dashti

#PEOPLE

• Podcaster and Content Creators Now Eligible for White House Press Pass
  Podcasters and content creators are now eligible for a White House press pass, press secretary says.

• For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website
  The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.

• Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
  Google will probably close this loophole soon enough.

#TECH

• Music Is Becoming Less Complex Over Time, And We Don't Really Know Why
  Your dad's strong opinions on "music these days" turn out to be correct.

• The global struggle over how to regulate AI
  Big AI companies are fighting against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West, but other countries like India are embracing AI and Big Tech.

• Meta's New Translation AI Is Nearly a Babel Fish
  Facebook's parent company has revealed an AI system that can manage real-time translations between 101 languages, both for speech and text.

• Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned
  Only some kinds are bad

#SOCIALMEDIA

• The Social Media Sea Change
  What happens when the thing that structured so much of our lives loses its utility?

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#THEDARKSIDE

• ‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
  The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

• Meta will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump over his 2021 Facebook suspension
  Meta Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit stemming from the social network’s decision to suspend Trump's Facebook account.

• Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware
  Francesco Cancellato, whose reporting exposes fascists within PM Meloni’s far-right party, condemns ‘violation’.

• Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
  The Trump administration is taking down data on climate change and public health from federal websites.

• Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
  Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

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