[nonostantement #48] - banner blindness / tango by rybczyński / become a facebook free business
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Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
"A detailed economic analysis published on 7 June suggests that the geoengineering technology is inching closer to commercial viability."How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report
"Previous research has shown how 42.55 percent of free apps on the Google Play store could share data with Facebook, making Facebook the second most prevalent third-party tracker after Google’s parent company Alphabet. In this report, Privacy International illustrates what this data sharing looks like in practice, particularly for people who do not have a Facebook account."[Video] - The Man from Mo'Wax - Official Trailer
"James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo'Wax at 18 and released the genre defining UNKLE album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid rise seemed limitless, but it's only when you're going so fast that the wheels fall off."Banner Blindness Revisited: Users Dodge Ads on Mobile and Desktop
"People tend to ignore page elements that they perceive (correctly or incorrectly) to be ads."[Video] - Missouri Lottery $258.5 Million Powerball Winner
"Gas station employee goes up to boss and asks for a vacation, and she playfully tells him 'I don't think so, honey'. He goes on to show her his $258.5 Million Powerball ticket."[Video] - American Fleet Attacked by Japanese Kamikaze Pilots (1940s) | War Archives
"The Japanese believed death was a price worth paying if it meant detroying such a high value target."[Video] - Tango by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)
"I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities."Björk on creativity as an ongoing experiment
"It’s always a struggle. You always go, 'Oh, damn, now I have nothing to do for two days,' and then always on the end of the second day it’s like, 'I’m bored shitless.' But you have to force yourself to do that. I think for everybody, that’s going to be always something you have to juggle till the end of your life."Become A Facebook-Free Business
"Being a Facebook-Free Business means your customers can trust that you aren’t collaborators with the Facebook machine. That when you spend your money with a Facebook-Free Business, none of that money will find its way back to Facebook’s coffers."What Will the Future of Work Look Like in 2019? We Make Some Predictions
"Where we work, what we make, and how we get paid are in flux—for some, that’s really good news"When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life
"Within a year, Glennon was experiencing the repercussions: Her number of listings dropped by half. She estimates that she’s lost $200,000 in business since 2015."Prison Camps in China: Three Eyewitnesses Discuss Torture and Forced Labor - SPIEGEL ONLINE
"Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, an estimated 50 million people have been interned in prison camps, making it the largest system of forced labor, torture and brainwashing the world has ever known"Human Terrain
"Visualizing the World’s Population, in 3D"Matteo Salvini Likes Nutella and Kittens. It’s All Part of a Social Media Strategy.
"Mr. Salvini’s social media feeds are not really about product placement, or the musings of a proud culinary nationalist. Rather, say those who have worked closely with him, they are part of a carefully studied and remarkably successful strategy to sell his common-man brand in an anti-elite era."Visualizing the Extreme Concentration of Global Wealth
"Today, slightly less than 1% of the world’s adult population occupies the $1M+ wealth range. Despite their small numbers, this elite group collectively controls 46% of the world’s wealth, valued at approximately $129 trillion."Half of people who think they have a food allergy do not – study
"The number of adults who think they have a food allergy is almost double the figure who actually have one, research has revealed."Cheer up, millennials! It will become easier to buy a house
"Elderly folk, who bought their houses before the boom, own a huge slice of overall housing wealth relative to their share of the population (see chart). It is a different story for youngsters. A 27-year-old living today is half as likely to be a home-owner as one living 15 years ago."
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