[nonostantement #376] - infinite fringe / frankenstein laptops / oranger orange

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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with drastic, sickly, and brave stuff found all over the Internet.

Hey there, I’m Joele. Every week, I put together this email from what I find online while working in the digital space. I have done it for seven years and who knows if I will do it for another seven. in the meantime, let's stay in the here and now and enjoy this week's links.

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Robot, Siobhán Hapaska (2001)

#PEOPLE

• Las Vegas: How the internet’s most notorious risk-taker always wins in the end.
  Millions of people are addicted to watching Vegas Matt lose it all. I think I know why.

• Why Our Brains Crave Ideology
  A neuroscientist reveals how to nurture authentic and flexible thinking

• So You Want to Be a Dissident?
  Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer on how Americans are confronting rising risks for protest, free speech, and civil resistance amid Donald Trump’s Presidency.

• The rise of the infinite fringe
  It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet made them immortal — and more politically powerful than anyone can control.

#TECH

• The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets
  Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.

• OpenAI is building a social network
  Sam Altman’s OpenAI has recently starting woking on an internal prototype social network to rival Elon Musk’s X.

• How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? · Caffeinspiration
  If you buy bags of oranges (at least at many places in the US), they frequently come in this red mesh bag. This bag makes the oranges look more orange. Oranger.

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#SOCIALMEDIA

• TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
  Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words.

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