BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN GLO RE D 12 01 25

"L.A. is vast. It is a city and a county. It is a global place, a Pacific Rim space, a ‘Third World’ metropolis. It has all the contradictions of the world and all the world is condensed in it. The homes of rich, poor, middle class, Black, white, Asian, Latino have burned. Fire is coming for all of us”  

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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FACT UNCHECKING GLO RE D 08 01 25

Meta was ending its longstanding fact-checking program to curtail the spread of misinformation across social media, in a stark sign of how the company was repositioning itself for the Trump presidency and unfettered speech online.

Misinformation researchers said Meta’s decision was deeply concerning....

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JUSTICE FOR ALL GLO RE D 07 01 25

That day was an American calamity. 

Lawmakers huddled for safety. Vice President Mike Pence eluded a mob shouting that he should be hanged. Several people died during and after the riot, including one protester by gunshot and four police officers by suicide, and more than 140 officers were injured in a protracted melee that nearly upended what should have been the routine certification of the electoral victory of Mr. Trump’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr...

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TECHLASH 3 GLO RE D 01 04 25

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark net neutrality rules, ending a nearly two-decade effort to regulate broadband internet providers as utilities...

"The F.C.C.’s interpretation of its authority to define broadband internet service akin to phone service exceeded legal definitions in the Telecommunications Act. The F.C.C. lacks the statutory authority to impose its desired net-neutrality policies”. 

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TECHLASH 2 GLO RE D 28 12 2024

Albania announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager that raised fears over the influence of social media on children...

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TECHLASH GLO RE D 16 12 2024

Natalie Rupnow, 15, who went by Samantha, a teenage student, at Abundant Life, a Christian school in Madison, Wis., opened fire killing another student and a teacher. At least six other people were injured in the shooting. Police don’t yet have a motive for the shooting...

She was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital, and the evidence suggested she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...

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HIDDEN TRUTHS GLO RE D 14 12 24

Suchir Balaji, an OpenAI whistleblower, was found dead inside his apartment in San Francisco. The medical examiner's office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is "currently, no evidence of foul play"...

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DENY DEFEND DEPOSE GLO RE D 12 12 24

Many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty....

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TAKE IT DOWN GLO RE D 11 12 24

The US Senate unanimously passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would make non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) illegal to post without consent, including AI-generated NCII, commonly referred to as “deepfake revenge pornography”...

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ROTTEN BRAINS GLO RE D 10 12 24

The Oxford English Dictionary has announced “brain rot” as its word of year. The dictionary defines it as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging”. But few people are aware of how literally technology is rotting our brains, and how decisively compulsive internet use is destroying our grey matter...

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TIK TOK ON THE CLOCK GLO RE D 07 12 24

The winds of Washington are blowing icy cold for TikTok. A federal appeals court panel handed down a ruling that could send the app packing or at least force it into a kind of corporate divorce...

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LAB LEAK THEORY GLO RE D 03 12 24

A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded that the coronavirus “likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident”...

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