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In our digital era, movies and T.V. shows were supposed to get easier to watch, not harder. But it turns out, media companies are fickle—and media distribution can get complicated as it crosses borders. … So what are a viewer’s options when a studio or streamer abruptly yanks a film or series from distribution or,…
Unlike influencers in the so-called “wellness-to-fascism” pipeline, the Johnsons do not exploit skepticism toward mainstream health expertise to prime their audiences for right-wing talking points. Instead, they start with a fascist aesthetic tradition that prizes hard young bodies and fuse it with the language of self-help culture, promising potential followers eternal life among a cadre…
Good to see the press moving on this BS fast.
The emergence of this population panic has set off my BS alert. It smell like the “AIs will end us” crap – and it’s spouted by the same dimwits. Very glad to see the evolution of thinking about *why* this argument is shaped the way it is. If that is the argument, it brings us close the…
As a scholar of antisemitism, I continue to be alarmed by the language [Noa] Tishby uses, sometimes in conjunction with other much more well-known television personalities such as Chelsea Handler and Mayim Bialik, to describe anyone who opposes her view that all criticism of Israel is antisemitism. In various media appearances, Tishby has called pro-Palestinian protesters “a cancer,”…
War: Propaganda with violence. Purposefully conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism will go down in history as one of the greatest errors ever. It’s a disastrous slippery slop that will only build the ranks of Nazis and Fascists. Those ranks will only ever be filled with low information people… the hardest to de-program and the most likely…
We are entering into the next phase of the digital technology revolution. Passive consumption is no longer cutting it. We need to be active and critical users. [Amish communities] designate a few community members as nerds who can try out a technology and report back on how it changed their families and their focus. The…
Brooks isn’t saying the AI industry is doomed, mind you, but that such ambitious technological advancements take time — and a lot of it. Whether the industry’s financial backers are ready to hunk down and play the long game, though, is more dubious. https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotics-expert-ai-hype-reality-check
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