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The one to find shade, the one to look for fountains, the one to complain about the heat, and all the apps we discovered we desperately need because of the heatwave.

They are called shademaps.app, fontanelle.org, and troppocaldo.it. It will be hard to do without them in the future.

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The latest, ridiculous result of Italian sovereignty is Emma, the AI that only gives wrong and delusional answers.

It was closed five days after the launch and after getting literally all the questions wrong that were asked of it.
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There is a mobile game that lets you “collect” stray cats you encounter on the street like Pokémon in Pokémon Go.

It's called CatchCat and it also has an archive, very similar to a Pokedex, where cats are classified with statistics and experience points.
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The co-founder of Wikipedia was banned from Wikipedia for trying to change Wikipedia’s rules without following Wikipedia’s rules.

Larry Sanger has proposed a reform of the entire online encyclopedia system, but apparently he did it the wrong way.
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There is an app for sending messages that travel at the speed of a carrier pigeon

It's called Roost and it presents itself as an "anti-instant" messaging service to rediscover the pleasure (and frustration) of waiting.
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It’s not a place for old men

As cities become carbon copies of one another, an aesthetic movement is growing on the internet that celebrates the quirks and uniqueness of the "small town," mixing memes, shitposting, nostalgia, sarcasm, Gianni Celati, and Luigi Ghirri.
by Viola Stefanello
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In South Korea, “dopamine sites” are becoming increasingly popular, meaning sites where you pretend to buy things just to give your brain the pleasure of shopping.

Websites where you order food from non-existent restaurants or clothes from made-up stores. All to get that dopamine rush without spending money.
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There is a copy of Wikipedia where all the articles are disconnected and incoherent ramblings written by an AI.

It is called Halupedia and contains all the information on historical events such as the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 and insights into the gnomonic mandate of circular reasoning.
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The growth of the AI industry is causing RAMageddon, the worst memory chip shortage in history.

It is called RAMageddon and it is caused by the expansion of server farms that have absorbed not only the current global supply of chips but also its production capacity for several years.
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Building a cyberdeck has become the latest form of protest against the tyranny of Big Tech

They are small "handcrafted" computers, built with old, cheap, and second-hand parts, and customized in every possible and imaginable way.
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Work life on LinkedIn is a whole different story

Once a formal hub for corporate professionals, now a Facebook-style brain rot: how LinkedIn became so strange and hard to make sense of.
by Laura Fontana