[nonostantement #414] - ai vs culture / availability heuristic / backing up spotify

Now with MORE protests!

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Hey, Joele here. I work with weird people doing weird stuff online for weird brands. As we spend a lot of time on the weird side of the internet, doing weird stuff, I find weird links to weird things and I sent them in this weird email to my weird friends. I do this every week. Yes that’s weird.

Music for you! Daniel Villarreal - Patria and Marc Ribot - Aurora En Pekin

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Casa Gilardi by Luis Barragán - photo by Arielle Vey

#PEOPLE

• How AI Gentrifies Culture
  And Why We Need Shitty Artists

• The Modern Peril of the Availability Heuristic
  2The availability heuristic was formulated in the previous century, an era of informational scarcity where information was expensive, filtered, or difficult to access. Under those conditions, availability served as a useful, albeit imperfect, proxy for likelihood. People tended to encounter more often what actually occurred more frequently. That world no longer exists.”

• How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI Boom
  Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is where the entire AI boom is unfolding, setting the narrative for AI progress but creating risks for hype, misinformation, and competition.

• Video Game Websites in the early 00s
  Do you remember what video game developer websites and gaming websites looked like in the early 00s?

#TECH

• Backing up Spotify
  We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

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#THEDARKSIDE

• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
  But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’

• Mapping the Protests in Iran
  The regime in Iran continues to face widespread protests across the country. This interactive map shows the locations and details of recent protests since September 2022, with video evidence where available.

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