[nonostantement #63] - text predictors / shutting of wifi to deter protestors / werner herzog and piracy
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[Video] - The real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice
"Two Boeing airplanes have fallen out of the air and crashed in the past six months. On the surface, this is a technical failure. But the real story is about a company's desire to beat their rival."How Algorithms Know What Youll Type Next
"This article is about how text predictors work, and how crucial the input language dataset is for the resulting predictions. To see how this in action, we will predict tweets by four Twitter accounts: Barack Obama, Justin Timberlake, Kim Kardashian, and Lady Gaga."UK police shut off Wi-Fi in London Tube stations to deter climate protestors
"A spokesperson for Virgin Media, the ISP that provides Wi-Fi in London Tube stations said only that the company had received an instruction from the police and had to comply."[In Italian] - La scrittrice Michela Murgia risponde alle offese di Matteo Salvini con il gioco della "sinossi dei curriculum"
"Lasci stare il telefonino e si metta finalmente a fare il ministro, invece che l’assaggiatore alle sagre."[Video] - Dying Alone: Kodokushi, Japan's epidemic of isolation through the eyes of a 'lonely death' cleaner
"Lonely deaths, or kodokoshi, are on the rise in Japan. Thousands of elderly people die in their homes without anyone knowing. Sometimes corpses remain undiscovered for weeks or even months, so companies devoted to cleaning up the homes of the dead are increasingly in demand."How to Quit Your Phone and Change Your Life By … Doing Nothing
"Anxiety about tech dependence—how social media is rewiring brains and worsening lives, or how tech companies are building monopolies and spying on users—is as old as the iPhone itself. A new book by artist and author Jenny Odell suggests a radically simple solution.""Piracy is the most successful form of distribution," says Werner Herzog
"If you don’t get [films] through Netflix or state-sponsored television in your country, then you go and access it as a pirate,” Herzog continued. “I don’t like it because I would like to earn some money with my films. But if someone like you steals my films through the internet or whatever, fine, you have my blessing."The golden age of YouTube is over
"The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content"
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