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Why the debate about social media is not about tech or the internet at all.

The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires.

A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

The layoffs were announced to staff on July 5th.

Meta’s take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built around brand safety. You don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build around brand safety.

The strategy for winning is simple: do good work and tell the world about it. In that order! This implies some level of stealth as you are doing the good work. If you plan to lose weight, don’t announce it… lose the weight and then do the reveal. Early feedback frames the problem and might … Continue reading Stealth, not secrecy

Republican nominee engaged in so-called stochastic terrorism with his remarks about “Second Amendment people” and Clinton

1. The use of mass communication to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. 2. Remote-control murder by lone wolf.

In 2011, an anonymous blogger defined the term “stochastic terrorism”. Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass commun

Rick Anderson, University Librarian at Brigham Young University, writes on a peculiar fact of library life: false and misleading copyright warnings to be found by photocopiers. Under certain condit…

Twitter’s eroding reign over microblogging may collapse as Meta’s new platform, Threads, emerges as a serious contender, with a staggering 30 million users signing up on launch day. Increasin…

The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.

Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse

not as a cause

Drawing on traditional Mexican design, artist Christie Tirado spotlights Washington’s agricultural workers and those who perform essential services.

A new study from the European Audiovisual Observatory shows that more than a third of on-demand providers have U.S. parent companies as well.

$160k to binge-watch “The Witcher”?

The Secret Menu of McDonald's Supersized Failures, from McTrains to McPlanes & Beyond - Uncategorized - Messy Nessy Chic

In Quebec, residents of the former town of Asbestos find their stories cast in shadow by the feared resource that shaped its landscape

The notion that public investment crowds out private spending has taken a beating lately.

The Famous Parisian Potheads of the Belle Epoque - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

Musk tries to claw back $90M from firm that forced him to complete Twitter deal.

Meet the President's Daughter, a "Wild Animal That Had Been Put Into Good Clothes" - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

Today marks the 75th birthday of the NHS. In 1948, the founders could not have envisioned the advances that have been made or the scale of the service, now treating 1.6 million people per day, alongside being the seventh-largest employer in the world.Google has partnered with the NHS for a number of years and as the NHS celebrates this momentous anniversary, we look forward to deepening those partnerships in the years and decades to come.Our recent report, in partnership with the NHS Confederation and Ipsos, showed that technology will play a much greater role as we move into the next 75 years. People want to use technology to interact with the health system, to access health information and to keep themselves well; but they lack the confidence and the tools to do so.Search and Health Condition Knowledge PanelsAt Google, we're committed to supporting individuals to have the tools that they need, providing high quality accessible health information, wearables and mobile tools to empower them to take charge of their health.Each day people come to Google Search looking for trustworthy information on various health conditions and symptoms. Over half of all EU citizens seek health information online before seeing a healthcare professional.To help them access trustworthy information, our Knowledge Panels cite content from reliable sources covering hundreds of conditions from the common cold to anxiety. In the UK, Google worked closely with the NHS to expand the Health Condition Knowledge Panels citing information from the NHS on more than 200 health conditions, such as coronary artery disease, clinical depression, and more.YouTube Health and the NHSAt YouTube Health, we collaborated with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS to develop a set of principles to help put NHS organisations, health charities and licensed health professionals at the core of our efforts to provide authoritative information for people. This enables these organisations and professionals to appear in our UK health features, which help viewers find credible health content.To help fill the YouTube health content shelves with high-quality and engaging information, we’ve worked closely with eight NHS trusts (such as Great Ormond Street Hospital) and NHS charities, who have collectively created more than 350 videos on various health topics over the past two years. We’re also working with the NHS YouTube channel, whose content has generated over 35 million views since the start of the pandemic — a clear indication of the growing importance of making trusted NHS information available to those who need it.That’s why we’re also inviting applications from licensed health professionals to appear in our health features, and to join the growing community of NHS clinicians we’re supporting to share their health expertise on YouTube; creators like Dr Simi Adedeji and Dr Karan Rajan, who have over 1 million subscribers each.

I would never own it, but the cryptocurrency BNB is probably one of the strangest most interesting assets I've ever analyzed. No other asset...

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A federal judge has concluded that California's ban on vanity license plates considered “offensive to good taste and decency” violated the First Amendment's freedom of speech. California law requires...