[nonostantement #97] - harvesting blood / female gun influencers / review culture
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Wombat sketch by Edward Burne-Jones featured in Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones (1904) by Georgiana Burne-Jones
"O Uommibatto" How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
Instagram is broken. It also broke us.
"Influencers and regular users are reckoning with what Instagram has done to them. Now Instagram wants us to love it again."America’s Shrimp Gluttony Is Bad for the Planet and Maybe Worse for Human Health
"By some estimates, a pound of shrimp harvested from a former mangrove habitat has a carbon footprint 10 times greater than a pound of beef raised on land that used to belong to the Amazon rainforest."Harvesting the Blood of America’s Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
"Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of corporations ready to exploit America’s most vulnerable populations in order to get a piece of the pie."The hired guns of Instagram
"Companies can’t advertise on social media — so they have female influencers do it for them."How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
"Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it."[Video] - Diddy & His Mentor Ray Dalio | Inside a Meeting
"Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, asked me to mentor him to help him take his great success to another level. In this video you will see a recent mentor session of ours, and you will see a Diddy that you probably haven’t seen before."BuzzFeed Expands Shopping Links Overseas to Rely Less on Ads
"BuzzFeed, which has been embedding affiliate links since 2016, has embraced the business with its famous lists and colloquial headlines such as 'Sorry, But If You Don’t Have These 44 Products, Your Kitchen Is Probably Incomplete.'"The New Ticket Scalpers Are Young, Unashamed, and Very Online
"Hanging out on Discord with today’s teen-idol ticket scalpers—average guys, no bots"Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology
"Who needs to hack elections or steal voter information when people will happily hand over scans of their faces when you appeal to their vanity?"[Video] - This video is bad for climate change: Thank you for watching!
"[...] byte by byte of data, with each second of a video, a bit more carbon dioxide gets released into the atmosphere. It's invisible for you now, but not for our climate, for which the global consequences are already visible."[In Italian] - Piantatela. Ovvero di Algoritmi, geni, Merda e Nutella
"Seguitemi in questo piccolo viaggio all’interno dell’Algoritmo e scopriremo insieme perché Salvini parla di Nutella proprio ora…"There are no more fashion collaborations left
"Can’t anyone just make their own thing anymore?"I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here's why you should too
"When you realise that most things you search for online are really boring and obvious, you soon realise you don't really need Google in your life"The Rise of Review Culture
"The thing about review culture is that the promise of finding “the best” is never fulfilled. For one, the best doesn’t exist — particularly in fashion, which is subjective. Second, too many people lean on the idea of buying "the best” to abdicate responsibility in developing a sense of taste. But most importantly, the reason why we never find the best is because that gnawing urge that compels us to find it in the first place is never satisfied."Deepfake Porn Is Evolving to Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies
"People are creating a new kind of nonconsensual pornography by combining deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever they want."[In Italian] [Video] - Videotel 1989
"Servizio andato in onda su RAIUNO - Uno mattina nel 1989
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