[nonostantement #409] - ai memory / slop evader / how to turn off ai

Now with MORE old bars in Tokyo!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with malleable, mighty, and sensible stuff found all over the Internet.

Hello, my name is Joele. I am Italian but living in Barcelona. I usually spend a lot of time online, and I usually find a lot of nice things online. What I do is I collect them in this same email, and then I send it to my friends, on Sunday. I have been doing this for more than seven years.

A nice track for you: Candles - Version - V/Z, Valentina Magaletti, Zongamin

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

👉 The nonostantement archive - everything I sent in the past 7 years

🎵 #music on nonostantement - spotify playlist

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An old bar that sells only eel to eat in Shinjuku, Tokyo - by Lee Chapman

#PEOPLE

• [Video] - Barcelona’s Map, Explained

• A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving These New Yorkers Behind
  As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.

• Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era
  A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

• Suno Creates a Spotify Catalog’s Worth of Music Every Two Weeks
  Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a “verticalized” creation, social media and streaming service, according to investment documents obtained by Billboard.

• Chinese tech companies are changing Mexico City
  As companies like BYD, Shein, and Xiaomi open offices in Mexico City, they’re sparking a boom in Chinese restaurants and businesses.

• The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
  When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.

• Anna Possi on six decades behind the counter at Italy’s Bar Centrale
  In the village of Nebbiuno, perched on the Piedmont hills overlooking Lake Maggiore, Anna Possi is pulling espressos at Bar Centrale — just as she has done every day since 1958.

• [Video] - ChatGPT in a real robot does what experts warned
  “Chat GPT inside a robot. Can we trust AI?”

• [Video] - NEW Robotic Olaf Revealed! Inside Disney Imagineering R&D
  Step behind the scenes with Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development and discover how Disney uses robotics, AI, and immersive technology to bring stories to life!

• Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
  How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations.

• How military families remember the fallen with tattoos
  From recreated handwriting to portraits and landscapes to tiny birthmarks, tattoos preserve memories of the lost.

• To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
  AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.

• The Box
  The world’s first anti-deepfake wearable

• Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
  Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

• Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s
  Partial Archive of Anthony Bourdain’s li. st Content

#TECH

• Slop Evader
  This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.

• Cloudflare says it has fended off 416 billion AI bot scrape requests in five months — CEO warns of dramatic shift for internet business model
  Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that blocking AI bots and giving website owners the option to license their content to AI companies could help maintain online publication’s viability as a business in the future.

• AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
  PropensityBench reveals AI agents’ risky behavior under pressure, highlighting the need for improved alignment to ensure AI safety.

• How to run hundreds of phones while being struck by suicide drones
  In Ukraine suicide drones strike critical infrastructure regularly.

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#THEDARKSIDE

• How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot
  AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you’re suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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