[nonostantement #72] - amish vacations / france is the champion / the news and how we die
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Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records
"A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses."[Video] - Dalí What's My Line edited
Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?" (1957)The I in We
"How did WeWork’s Adam Neumann turn office space with “community” into a $47 billion company? Not by sharing."Forget the Mall, Shoppers Are Buying Gucci at Airports
"For the first time last year, Estée Lauder Co. generated more revenue at airports globally than at U.S. department stores, which for decades had been beauty companies' biggest sales driver."[Video] - Without Amazon, most of the internet disappears
"There’s a whole invisible network of computers that makes the internet work -- and weirdly, most of those computers are controlled by Amazon Web Services. Here’s why Amazon is THE internet."Where the Amish vacation
"Every winter, Amish and Mennonite travelers from all over the United States, travel to Pinecraft, a small community in Sarasota, Florida. [...] The usual rules are a bit looser, turning a blind eye to the use of cell phones, cameras and bicycles while encouraging recreational activities."Fontsmith and VBAT create the world’s first variable font logo
"The logo shape shifts with different human gestures; while its colour palette gently changes according to the time of day and night – all reflecting the creative concept of the building and those “breathing” creativity within the space."[Video] - Riding a c90 through Iran
"Iranian's look like the most friendly people in the world, I can't believe how accommodating and welcoming they were"
"wait so the media has been lying to me?"[Video] - We are the Champions
"With 100.000 abandoned animals per year, France is the European Champion of Abandonment"Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement
"A wealthy Manhattan couple has emerged as significant financiers of the anti-vaccine movement, contributing more than $3 million in recent years to groups that stoke fears about immunizations online and at live events"China Killing Prisoners To Harvest Organs For Transplant, Tribunal Finds
"forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale, [and] the tribunal has had no evidence that the significant infrastructure associated with China’s transplantation industry has been dismantled and absent a satisfactory explanation as to the source of readily available organs concludes that forced organ harvesting continues till today."UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
“The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.”[Video] - Inside China's 'thought transformation' camps - BBC News
"Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system and the conditions for the people inside it."The Sugar High Is Actually Just a Parenting Myth
"The concept of the sugar high is something of a parenting urban legend; plenty of research has shown that feeding kids sugar doesn’t make them hyper."Does the news reflect what we die from?
"What's interesting is that Americans search on Google is a much closer reflection of what kills us than what is presented in the media. One way to think about it is that media outlets may produce content that they think readers are most interested in, but this is not necessarily reflected in our preferences when we look for information ourselves."Instagram - @dcim.ru
"Shot on iPhone"Roger McNamee: Facebook and Google, like China, use data to manipulate behavior and it needs to stop
"'I don’t think we should be competing against China in behavioral manipulation,' says McNamee, venture capitalist turned Silicon Valley critic."
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