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NEW RESOURCES
National Security Archive: The Presidential Nuclear “Football” From Eisenhower to George W. Bush. “A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded ‘Football’ that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of ‘doubtful legality,’ ‘badly out of date,’ and ‘even illegal,’ according to top government officials whose views are memorialized in declassified records posted today by the National Security Archive.”
GCN: New digital exhibition celebrates LGBTQ+ families in Ireland. “On Friday, July 14, the National Museum of Ireland, in collaboration with RIFNET (Reconstituting the Irish Family Network) unveiled a new digital exhibition entitled ReCollecting the Irish Family. The exhibition consists of items donated from five LGBTQ+ families throughout Ireland. Interviews with the families accompany the pieces, challenging the listener to examine their notions of what ‘the Irish family’ truly means.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: Immich Is a Great Google Photos Alternative You Can Host on Raspberry Pi. “Google Photos is the dominant photo storage and backup solution, effortlessly spiriting your images from your phone into the cloud. But if you don’t want to share your personal photos with Google, there are alternatives. While there are many self-hosted solutions you can host on Raspberry Pi, Immich stands head and shoulders above most competitors. It offers machine learning, multiple users, automatic image classification, facial recognition, native Android and iOS apps, and a host of other features.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CNN: With the rise of AI, social media platforms could face perfect storm of misinformation in 2024. “A new crop of AI tools offer the ability to generate compelling text and realistic images — and, increasingly, video and audio. Experts, and even some executives overseeing AI companies, say these tools risk spreading false information to mislead voters, including ahead of the 2024 US election.”
Deadline: SAG-AFTRA Can Bar Non-Member Social Media Influencers From Guild Admission If They Promote For Studios During Strike. “If you’re a social media influencer and want to take work promoting a film or TV series for a studio, but you’re not a SAG-AFTRA member — you might want to think twice. SAG-AFTRA has issued rules during the strike for social media influencers, and even if you’re not a member of the guild, but one day want to join, you’ll be barred from doing so if you take on promotional work for the studios and streamers during the strike.”
CNBC: Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk. “The company originally selected more than 2,500 employees to participate, but after receiving feedback, the company revised the pilot to allow employees to opt out, as well as opening it up to volunteers. The company will disable internet access on the select desktops, with the exception of internal web-based tools and Google-owned websites like Google Drive and Gmail.”
Variety: Congressman Joaquin Castro and Hispanic Caucus Members Call on Public to Nominate Latino Films for National Film Registry. “Congressman Joaquin Castro and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have launched a nationwide call for Latino films to nominate for the National Film Registry.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CBS News: Elizabeth Warren calls for SEC to investigate Tesla, Elon Musk’s ‘conflicts of interest’. “Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the SEC to investigate Tesla and its board of directors to determine whether they violated securities laws after CEO Elon Musk took over Twitter last year.”
Search Engine Journal: Brave Browser Under Fire For Alleged Sale Of Copyrighted Data. “Brave, a privacy-focused web browser, has come under fire for supposedly selling copyrighted data to train artificial intelligence models. This has sparked debates around the ethical use of data and the need for transparency.”
USA Today: ‘Dr. Roxy’, the plastic surgeon who livestreamed procedures on TikTok, banned from practicing medicine in Ohio. “The State Medical Board of Ohio on Wednesday voted to permanently revoke the medical license of [Dr. Katharine Roxanne] Grawe, who also goes by ‘Dr. Roxy.’ The board said Grawe, whose license has been suspended since Nov. 18, neglected her patients as she livestreamed parts of their procedures, spoke into a camera, and answered viewer questions – all while the surgeries were taking place.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Washington: Learning from superheroes and AI: UW researchers study how a chatbot can teach kids supportive self-talk. “Researchers at the University of Washington created a new web app aimed to help children develop skills like self-awareness and emotional management. In Self-Talk with Superhero Zip, a chatbot guided pairs of siblings through lessons. The UW team found that, after speaking with the app for a week, most children could explain the concept of supportive self-talk (the things people say to themselves either audibly or mentally) and apply it in their daily lives.”
New York Times: Official Data Hinted at China’s Hidden Covid Toll. Then It Vanished.. “Official data from China offered a rare, but brief, glimpse of the true toll of Covid, indicating that nearly as many people may have died from the virus in a single province earlier this year as Beijing has said died in the mainland during the entire pandemic. The data was deleted from a provincial government website just days after it was published on Thursday. But epidemiologists who reviewed a cached version of the information said it was the latest indication that the country’s official tally is a vast undercount.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 20, 2023 at 05:31PM
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