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NEW RESOURCES
Mid-Day: Art Deco Mumbai creates exhaustive database of city architects responsible for its magnificent architecture. “Iconic buildings like Regal Cinema in Colaba or the Sona Mahal at Marine Drive may have made for terrific backgrounds for your Instagram Reels, but how much do you know about the people who made these buildings possible? Art Deco Mumbai, a not for profit organisation that documents the history of Mumbai’s Art Deco buildings, has compiled an exhaustive list of architects and designers of yore to specifically fill this gap in the city’s history.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
CNN: Laid-off Twitter Africa team ‘ghosted’ without severance pay or benefits, former employees say. “Former employees of Twitter Africa who were laid off as part of a global cost-cutting measure after Elon Musk’s acquisition have not received any severance pay more than seven months since leaving the company, several sources told CNN.”
USEFUL STUFF
Lifehacker: Use This Phone Number to Find a Cooling Center Near You. “Most cooling centers are operated by state, county, or municipal governments. To find the one nearest you, call 2-1-1, text your ZIP code to TXT211 (898211), or visit the 2-1-1 website and enter your ZIP code.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: How To Preserve Priceless Documents At The National Archives. “The National Archives and Records Administration is devoted to preserving the priceless records of the United States, including handwritten parchment from President George Washington’s era to 20th-century typewritten documents and modern electronic files.” This is a gift article, so you should be able to read it without a paywall.
Korea Herald: Dramas depicting dark side of social media gain popularity. “Though a lot of creative content such as dramas, films and variety shows have included brief scenes depicting social media usage, Netflix’s latest suspense series ‘Celebrity’ and cable channel ENA’s ‘Battle for Happiness’ put the spotlight on characters’ social media interactions. The 12-part ‘Celebrity’ features the stories of Korean social media influencers, with a focus on an ordinary young woman Seo A-ri’s instant rise to a stardom and her downfall.”
Bloomberg: Russian Wikipedia’s Top Editor Leaves To Launch A Putin-Friendly Clone. “The new site is called Ruwiki, a common shorthand for Russian Wikipedia. It’s the work of Vladimir Medeyko, the long-serving leader of Russian Wikipedia editors. His colleagues were shocked that he’d quit a project he’d worked on since 2003-and even more taken aback that he said his reason for leaving was to create a Kremlin-compliant rival.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Yahoo! Finance AU: Troubling warning over Google Search tool: ‘Dead giveaway’. “Aussies have been warned to watch out for scammers impersonating well-known websites and brands that appear in Google search results. In fact, even the sponsored links that appear at the top of the search results page could be a scam.”
The Conversation: The rise of #Robodebt: how Twitter activists pushed a government scandal from hashtags to a royal commission. “While the nation digests the commissioner’s findings, it’s worth reviewing how a small but committed group of Twitter users tracked the faulty robodebt scheme and helped generate the pressure for a royal commission. As Twitter declines under Elon Musk’s ownership, the #Robodebt saga is a useful reminder of the platform’s potential for social good.”
Straits Times (Singapore): Tighter control of ads on younger teens’ social media accounts: IMDA. ” A new code of practice will require social media platforms to promptly inform users of actions taken on their reports of online harms. This is in response to feedback from users here that they are often left in the dark after submitting their reports. Advertisements that could have a harmful effect on young users’ mental health should be kept away from them, and platforms must submit online safety reports annually to be published on the Infocomm Media Development Authority’s (IMDA) website.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
MIT News: How an “AI-tocracy” emerges . “Caption:MIT economist Martin Beraja is co-author of a new research paper showing that China’s increased investments in AI-driven facial-recognition technology both help the regime repress dissent and may drive the technology forward, a mutually reinforcing condition the paper’s authors call an ‘AI-Tocracy.'”
Florida State University: FSU Research: Colonization influences worldwide distribution of plant specimens. “A study led by a Florida State University researcher that was published in Nature Human Behavior shows how colonization has contributed to the distribution of plants specimens stored in herbaria collections around the world.”
ZDNet: Is Twitter pay-to-play now? Early results of my Blue checkmark experiment are in. “Remember, you’re seeing the Twitter Blue effect active for just 18 of the 30 days, because I got the checkmark part way through June, on June 12. Now, in July, I have almost as many impressions as I got for entire months before Twitter Blue, but we’re only 11 days into the month. I should note that my tweeting behavior and pattern didn’t differ between the months. I have a pretty reliable daily social media practice, and I just continued it in June and July.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 18, 2023 at 05:27PM
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