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NEW RESOURCES
Library of Congress: Our Invitation to You: Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary. “America’s Invitation is an opportunity for Americans across the country, from every background, to take part in reflecting on our past and looking to the future by sharing their stories, and the things they love about America, as we continue to strive for ‘a more perfect union.'”
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: New IIASA online tool to visualize global migration patterns. “Developed by Guy Abel, a researcher in the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program and at Shanghai University, and Xavier Bolló, a data visualization specialist, the website offers users a unique opportunity to delve into the complex dynamics of global migration. It presents six different estimation methods that researchers can use to gain insights into migration flows.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
CNBC: Twitter says rate limits were to help thwart bots, ‘small percentage’ of users currently affected. “Recent usage limits on Twitter were implemented to ‘detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors,’ the company said Tuesday, adding that only a ‘small percentage” of users are currently affected.’
Ukrinform: 1,582 Ukraine’s cultural infrastructure objects already damaged due to war . “‘The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine continues to record damage to cultural infrastructure in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression. Thus, as of June 26, 2023, 1,582 cultural infrastructure objects, excluding monuments of cultural heritage, suffered damage. Of them, almost a third (585) were destroyed,’ the Ministry’s press service reports.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Washington Post: Loneliness is taking friend-making apps mainstream. “While online dating took over its analog predecessor as the most common way romantic couples meet, online friend-making has received relatively little attention. Now, post-pandemic loneliness is driving young adults like Walton to look for friends more intentionally and, for many, that means turning to the internet.”
New York Times: TikTok Sells a Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too.. “A new publishing company began courting self-published romance writers earlier this year. The pitch, delivered in a generic email, was impersonal and formulaic. The terms weren’t generous, sometimes amounting to just a few thousand dollars for the rights to a book. Then came the clincher. The publisher was ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, a social media company that traffics in short videos and has, over the past several years, helped create some of the biggest best sellers on the market.”
SB Nation: Gronk is sick of getting rizzed up by Baby Gronk’s dad. “Three weeks ago the world learned about the nonsensical madness that is Baby Gronk. Jake San Miguel, a promising 10-year-old football player from California has been transformed into an influencer by his father, who is hawking out his son to anyone who will take a photo with him in an attempt to create fame.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
NBC News: Federal judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms. “A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday restricted some agencies and officials of the administration of President Joe Biden from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing.”
WION: French officials fine Google $2.2 million over incomplete search results. “Google was fined $2.2 million by the French authorities on Tuesday over incomplete results in its search engine and app store. The Competition, Consumer and Anti-Fraud Office said the US tech firm’s search engine failed to provide adequate information concerning the ranking criteria of results. It said that the results for searches on tourism accommodation lacked explanations for the prices.”
Engadget: Tech giant ‘gatekeepers’ must comply with all of the EU’s new digital market rules . “Seven companies, mostly made up of American tech giants, have notified the European Commission that they meet the criteria to be classified as ‘gatekeepers’ under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft and Samsung have declared that they meet the thresholds the EU set when it passed the new law.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
ZDNet: Twitter seeing ‘record user engagement’? The data tells a different story. “By Similarweb’s count, Twitter saw a 7.7% traffic year-over-year drop in March alone. In addition, Twitter’s unique visitor web count dropped 3.3% year over year in March. The Twitter Android app’s average daily active users were down 9.8% in March, with monthly active users down 8% year over year. Within the US, monthly active users were down 14% on Android and 15% on iOS.”
MIT News: Computer vision system marries image recognition and generation. “Caption:A unified vision system known as MAsked Generative Encoder (MAGE), developed by researchers at MIT and Google, could be useful for many things, like finding and classifying objects in an image, learning from just a few examples, generating images with specific conditions such as text or class, editing existing images, and more.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 6, 2023 at 05:26PM
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