[nonostantement #369] - touch grass / tiktokers vs heavy objects / meta settings
Now with MORE ai use cases!
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Hi, my name is Joele and this is nonostantement. Every Sunday, this newsletter lands in your inbox with something to think about—something unexpected, maybe, or just a detail that’s easy to miss. I’ve spent the last six years wandering the web, following odd trails, collecting stories that make me pause. This newsletter is a way to share them with you.
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The Anonymous YouTubers Street-Racing Through New York
In January, a 20-year-old man that police believe to be an internet-famous street racer known as Squeeze was sentenced to five years in prison for unrelated crimes. Many more still speed through New York City and put it all on YouTube.Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society.A Radical New Proposal For How Mind Emerges From Matter
If we could stop bickering about which creatures do or don’t deserve to be called smart, an emerging movement of scientists and philosophers argue that we might discover fundamental elements of intelligence that are common to all life.
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The top 50 genAI use cases in marketing
Content, data, ads and more — see where genAI is innovating marketing and where it’s struggling to make an impact.AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving - let's look at the data
Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some From Pirate Bay
Spotify is often credited as the music service most in tune with the 'pirate' mentality, having converted millions of former file-sharers in recent years. Interestingly, according to writer and researcher Rasmus Fleischer, a decade ago the site actually populated its beta with pirate MP3s, including some that were only available on The Pirate Bay.
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Facebook Boosts Viral Content as It Drops Fact-Checking
Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.How 12 Americans See Life After Watching a Lot of TikTok
People who use TikTok daily talk about why they love the app, how consuming and addicting social media can be and why they wouldn’t want their kids to use it.What Lush learned from three years of being mostly offline
“We were very early adopters in something that felt crazy [at the time], and now social media feels crazy,” Jack Constantine, the brand’s chief digital officer, said.TikTokers dropping heavy objects on feet in viral trend ‘risk lifetime of pain’
The hashtag #droppingthingsonmyfoot has been used on hundreds of videos
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How to Change Your Meta Settings | Make yourself less valuable to Meta
[Video] - Teslas Monitor Everything—Including You
The 2024 Tesla Model 3 has some of the most advanced navigation, autonomous driving, and safety features currently on the market, meaning it’s full of equipment that can record and track your surroundings—and you. How much data does Tesla collect? Where is it stored? And can you trust them to protect your sensitive information?'Hey Number 17!'
Y Combinator supports an AI startup that's pitching granular machine vision surveillance of factory workers.
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