[nonostantement #94] - digital billboards tracking you / olivetti / tofu from toxic plastic
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The show “Ahlan Simsim,” which means “Welcome Sesame” in Arabic, will debut in early February 2020.
101 ways to live sustainably
"From overhauling your commute to transforming your community, these ideas not only provide a roadmap to a healthier, more environmentally sound lifestyle, they’ll also reduce your carbon footprint, connect you with your neighbors, and probably save you a ton of money, too."Good On You: Ethical Fashion
"Ethical brand ratings. There’s an app for that."[Video] - ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019
"Sacha Baron Cohen calls the platforms created by Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other companies 'the greatest propaganda machine in history' and blasts them for allowing hate, bigotry, and anti-Semitism to flourish on these services."What’s Better Than Seeing a Hopper Painting? Sleeping in One
"Every detail of Edward Hopper’s 'Western Motel' has been brought to life at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where you can spend the night."[In Italian] - Lo stile eclettico delle Signore di Milano: per loro la moda è citazione
"Contenuto realizzato da Vanity Fair per i propri Publisher Partner"Dynamic projection mapping onto deforming non-rigid surface using a high-speed projector
"[...] we have developed a high-speed projector 'DynaFlash' that can project 8-bit images up to 1,000fps with 3ms delay."Digital Billboards Are Tracking You. And They Really, Really Want You to See Their Ads.
"How the most intrusive parts of the web are expanding into the real world, complete with data collection and targeted ads"Arabic-Language Version of ‘Sesame Street’ Will Debut 3 New Muppets
"The show, 'Ahlan Simsim,' which means 'Welcome Sesame' in Arabic, aims to tackle the trauma facing refugee children in the Middle East."Tehachapi
"JR and his team captured the portraits and stories of former and currently incarcerated citizens that are keenly focused on rehabilitation, as well as some of the prison staff, and pasted them with their help, as a large team, on the recreation space within CCI."Introducing the most stylish men in Lagos
"Get the know the dapper denizens of Nigeria's cultural capital, 'the most populous Black city in the world,' in our street-style round-up from GT Bank Fashion Weekend."[In Italian] - Intervista all'anima di Salvini
"Abbiamo intervistato L'interno del ministro, che arriva in libreria con L'insostenibile leggerezza del governo del cambiamento."The Risks of Using AI to Interpret Human Emotions
“People lie, their brains don’t.”In Japan’s Vanishing Rural Towns, Newcomers Are Wanted
"Facing declining birthrates and rural depopulation, hundreds of 'marginal villages' could vanish in a few decades. But some small towns are fighting back."The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years
"The responsibility the writers of such books take on, to arrange the facts of the world into a form that makes sense of its tumult, can produce in the reader a kind of clarity of thought that no other genre can match."Zadie Smith on fighting the algorithm: ‘If you are under 30, and you are able to think for yourself right now, God bless you’
"[...] if a writer wants to get published, they should try sending them a story in the third person because it would seem fresh right now."[In Italian] - Uomo, Macchina, Sistema, Civiltà. Olivetti più grande di Jobs.
"Tutto va per il meglio, finché Mussolini fa entrare in vigore le leggi razziali nel 1938."[In Italian] - Il lavoro culturale ha bisogno di una lotta (creativa) di classe
"Chi resiste non è il più talentuoso ma semplicemente il più ricco di famiglia"'They Can't Stop Us:' People Are Having Sex With 3D Avatars of Their Exes and Celebrities
"A community of 3D graphics hobbyists are making and selling avatars of real people in order to fulfill their sexual fantasies, and there's little anyone can do to stop them."[Video] - My Dinner With Andre: Conspiracy Theory Scene HD
"I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing they've built. They've built their own prison. And so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners, and as a result, they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison."How Conde Nast plans to make money from Instagram TV
"The shift in strategy happens as Condé Nast continues to pour energy and resources into video, which it hopes will eventually turn into a billion-dollar stream of revenue, while also trying to prove it can deliver concrete outcomes for its biggest-spending advertisers."To Make This Tofu, Start by Burning Toxic Plastic
"Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia. Some is burned as fuel by tofu makers, producing deadly chemicals and contaminating food."[In Spanish] - [Video] - NO-DO La mujer al volante
"Habla sobre la situación de Francia en la época, donde por primera vez había mujeres taxistas y de cómo la conducción de las mujeres es cuestionable a través de un discurso maniqueo y maniroto"
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