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Saturday, May 28, 2022

National Agricultural Aviation Association, LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health, French Encrypted Newspaper Ads, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 28, 2022

National Agricultural Aviation Association, LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health, French Encrypted Newspaper Ads, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 28, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

National Agricultural Aviation Association: NAAA’s database connects farmers with aerial applicators. “America’s aerial applicators — or crop dusters as they are known in older jargon — are primed and ready to support farmers in need of fast, timely and effective applications this growing season. If they don’t have an existing relationship with an aerial applicator, farmers in need of an aerial application service provider should search NAAA’s ‘Find an Aerial Applicator’ database.”

PR Newswire: imi, A Free, Mental Health Web App, Helps LGBTQ+ Youth Cope with Stress (PRESS RELEASE). “imi, (pronounced eye-me) helps LGBTQ+ youth explore and affirm their identity and learn practical approaches to cope with sexual and gender minority stress in ways that are supportive, relevant, inclusive, and joyful. The web app provides affirming resources, activities, and stories of lived experiences from LGBTQ+ youth on important topics like stress, LGBTQ+ identity, internalized stigma, and gender identity and expression.” The app will be available June 1.

Science Blogs: A database for French encrypted newspaper ads. “Blog reader Didier Müller has found numerous encrypted newspaper ads in an online archive and created an online database for them. Who can support him with further finds and solutions?”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: 5 Free Sites and Extensions to Make Google Maps Incredibly Useful. “Google Maps is the best and most popular online map service. But that doesn’t mean it’s without flaws. These free websites and extensions make Google Maps better than ever before and fix some of its annoyances.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Input: Riding the rails with YouTube’s hobo vloggers. “Through their videos, these hobos — who are overwhelmingly male and white — hope to document what they consider to be a dying artform, while fending off critics who believe their content is dangerous and irresponsible.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: Scientists Uncover a Shady Web of Online Spider Sales. “In a new paper, published in Communications Biology on Thursday, Dr. [Alice] Hughes and her colleagues shine a light on the largely unregulated trade of creatures that prefer to lurk in the dark. Their analysis of online sales listings turned up more than 1,200 species of spiders, scorpions and other arachnids; just 2 percent of them are subject to international trade regulations, the researchers report.

Reuters: Google ‘Private Browsing’ Mode Not Really Private, Texas Lawsuit Says. “The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a ‘private browsing’ mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed …, filing an amended privacy lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc unit.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Ars Technica: Are TikTok algorithms changing how people talk about suicide?. “While the word ‘unalive’ first became popular in 2013 (when it was used in an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man), Google searches for the term have spiked dramatically in 2022. From TikTok, ‘unalive’ has spread to Twitter and Reddit; YouTubers also use it so their content isn’t demonetized. Depending on the context, the word can refer to suicide, murder, or death. Though ‘unalive’ is often used comedically on TikTok, people like Williams also use it to talk candidly, forge a community, and signpost resources on the app. The rapid rise of ‘unalive’ therefore raises a worrying question: What happens when we don’t openly say ‘suicide’?”

University of York: Study reveals flaws in using social media to identify race and ethnicity for health research. “Mining social media to identify race and ethnicity as part of research into health disparities is unreliable and inconsistent, a new study has concluded.”

CNET: Google, YouTube and Bing Rank Chinese State Media High for COVID, Xinjiang Info. “China exploits how search engines work to influence public opinion outside the country, by landing state-published stories about the detention of Uyghur Muslims and the origins of the coronavirus at the top of Google, YouTube and Bing searches.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Music Library Association, Global Solar Power Tracker, Chrome, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, May 28, 2022

Music Library Association, Global Solar Power Tracker, Chrome, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, May 28, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Internet Archive Blog: Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive. “The new collection of backlist titles includes information on careers in music librarianship and history of the field. It also covers planning and building music library collections, which can be complicated and involve individual creators and small publishers, said Kathleen DeLaurenti, who helped lead the partnership with the Internet Archive in her role as MLA’s first open access editor. There are also valuable materials on music library approaches to technical services—everything from how to preserve music materials to how to bind and catalog them.”

PV Magazine: Global online database for solar parks above 20 MW. “Global Energy Monitor (GEM) has unveiled a new online tool to map solar power plants throughout the world with capacities above 20 MW. The Global Solar Power Tracker (GSPT) can map projects of any status, including operational arrays or announced plants, as well as solar facilities that are under development or under construction. Every solar park is linked to a wiki page on the GEM wiki platform.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

How-To Geek: What’s New in Chrome 102, Available Now. “Right on schedule, a new Chrome release is ready to greet the world. Chrome 102 includes more enhancements for web apps, new keyboard shortcuts for tabs, and useful information about new online stores. Google released it on May 24, 2022.”

Tom’s Guide: Google Drive just got the copy and paste upgrade that will make your life easier. “Ctrl C, Ctrl V is the comfort food equivalent for keyboard shortcuts — so the fact that Google Drive did not have this shortcut all along is just weird. Well, better late than never, Google is finally rolling out an update for Google Drive that will let you cut, copy or paste files into the Drive and manage them easily.”

BusinessWire: American Girl Launches New Family-Friendly Podcast Network (PRESS RELEASE). “The new podcast network, with ad-free shows spanning diverse formats and themes, will amplify the brand’s digital and creative storytelling—sparking imaginations and a love of reading. The American Girl Podcast Network will launch with three original shows—one scripted and adapted from the brand’s slate of fan-favorite published content for young readers that debuts today, followed by two nonfiction podcasts with a mix of guest interviews, real-life advice, and behind-the-scenes exclusives that launch this summer.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Route Fifty: Cities That Hyped Crypto Are Now Contending With the Crash. “Back-to-back losses totaling more than $1 trillion in the cryptocurrency market have bolstered scrutiny around the efforts of Miami, New York, Austin and other cities to incorporate the digital currency into municipal operations.”

The Guardian: Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones and Kate Bush: the multimillion-pound deal that could turn them into 3D works of art. “British photographer Gered Mankowitz has an archive that spans 60 years, capturing an extraordinary array of stars that include Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Slade, Elton John and Kate Bush. Now, he hopes that vast treasure trove will be given a new lease of life after selling the lot to a company that plans to use digital technology to turn the images, among other things, into three-dimensional works of art.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: U.S. Bill Would Bar Google, Apple From Hosting Apps That Accept China’s Digital Yuan. “Republican senators want to bar U.S. app stores including Apple and Google from hosting apps that allow payments to be made with China’s digital currency, amid fears the payment system could allow Beijing to spy on Americans.”

Flinders University: Food cyber attacks forecast. “Wide-ranging use of smart technologies is raising global agricultural production but international researchers warn this digital-age phenomenon could reap a crop of another kind – cybersecurity attacks. Complex IT and math modelling at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, Aix-Marseille University, France and Flinders University in South Australia, has highlighted the risks in a new article in the open access journal Sensors.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

UC San Diego: A quarter of world’s Internet users rely on infrastructure at high risk of attack. “About a quarter of the world’s Internet users live in countries that are more susceptible than previously thought to targeted attacks on their Internet infrastructure. Many of the at-risk countries are located in the Global South. That’s the conclusion of a sweeping, large-scale study conducted by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The researchers surveyed 75 countries.”

BuzzFeed News: How The Internet Tricked Me Into Reading A New Book Every Single Day. “When I tell people that I’m on track to read 365 books this year, they ask for my secrets. I wish there were one, like some kind of Limitless-style pill that I could sell to internet-brained adults that would fund a coastal grandmother early retirement somewhere along the New England coast. In truth, I fell in love with reading again (after 18 months of isolation-induced scrolling on social media) by tricking myself into thinking it was a fun little internet thing.”

Newswise: University of Minnesota Student Uses Tiktok Dance Videos to Solve Problems in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. “TikTok dances have taken the world by storm, emerging as a fun way to pass the time during the COVID-19 pandemic. But for the last year, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian has been using dance videos from the viral social media platform for a different purpose—as food for a computer algorithm that uses the frame-by-frame data to construct lifelike 3D avatars of real people.” Good morning, Internet…

May 28, 2022 at 05:33PM
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Friday, May 27, 2022

Alberta Police Misconduct, Colorado Wildfire Risk, New Jersey Family Support, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 27, 2022

Alberta Police Misconduct, Colorado Wildfire Risk, New Jersey Family Support, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 27, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Calgary Herald: Volunteer group launches interactive database of police misconduct cases in Alberta. “The interactive database went live Tuesday with information on more than 400 incidents of misconduct involving about 500 officers over the past 30 years — and its designers are hoping Albertans use it as a tool for holding police officers accountable for their actions.”

KDVR: Tool shows wildfire risk in every Colorado community. “A new tool from the Colorado State Forest Service shows how at-risk every Colorado community is for wildfires. The Forest Atlas has several overlays that show users data on state forests that reflect wildfire risk, burn probability and how intense fires can be.”

New Jersey Department of Health: First Lady Tammy Murphy Announces Launch of Connecting NJ to Better Support Families. “First Lady Tammy Murphy today introduced Connecting NJ, New Jersey’s first-of-its-kind network of partners and agencies dedicated to helping New Jersey families thrive. The website – http://www.NJ.gov/ConnectingNJ – centralizes information and referrals to state and local wellness services, including healthcare for mothers and children, early education programs, domestic violence support, addiction treatment, financial and housing assistance, home visiting programs, behavioral health services, and more.”

WKBW: New website provides interactive database of mental and behavioral health resources across Western New York. “A new website has been launched that provides an interactive database of mental and behavioral health resources across Western New York. Just Tell One, a public awareness initiative of Mental Health Advocates (MHA) of WNY, launched its new website Thursday to coincide with May’s recognition as Mental Health Awareness Month.”

Houston Chronicle: Southern Baptist leaders release secret list of hundreds of accused sexual abusers. “Southern Baptist leaders released a confidential list of hundreds of accused sexual abusers Thursday evening that tracked names, dates and details about a burgeoning abuse crisis — but was kept secret for more than a decade.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Larry Ferlazzo: New Resources On Race & Racism. “I’m adding these new resources to various ‘Best’ lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at ‘Best’ Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Business Insider: A former Google tech lead bragged on Twitter about how he used to trash women’s résumés in front of them: ‘Go have some kids’. “A former Google programmer bragged on Twitter this week about how he used to trash the résumés of female interviewees in front of them. In his now-deleted tweets, Patrick Shyu recounted how he used to treat the women he interviewed. ‘So when I used to conduct interviews for Google, I rejected all women on the spot and trashed their résumés in front of them,’ Shyu wrote in a May 22 post seen by Insider.”

The Real Deal: Preservationists push to save Chicago’s Century, Consumers towers. “Preservationists fighting to save a pair of century-old downtown Chicago office towers say the buildings can escape the wrecking ball by housing historic records. Using the 22-story Century Building and 16-floor Consumers Building to store archives makes sense because they wouldn’t pose a security threat to the adjacent Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Crain’s reported, citing Ward Miller, head of Preservation Chicago, which is leading the Chicago Collaborative Archive proposal.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

CNBC: Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal. “Twitter shareholders are suing Elon Musk, and Twitter itself, over their handling of a chaotic acquisition process that is still underway, and that has contributed to volatile price swings in the company’s stock price.”

New York Times: Fentanyl Tainted Pills Bought on Social Media Cause Youth Drug Deaths to Soar. “Much as drug dealers in the 1980s and ’90s seized on pagers and burner phones to conduct business covertly, today’s suppliers have embraced modern iterations — social media and messaging apps with privacy features such as encrypted or disappearing messages. Dealers and young buyers usually spot each other on social media and then often proceed by directly messaging each other. The platforms have made for a swift, easy conduit during the coronavirus pandemic, when demand for illicit prescription drugs has jumped, both from anxious, bored customers and from those already struggling with addiction who were cut off from in-person group support.” Good afternoon, Internet…

May 28, 2022 at 12:26AM
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

Learning Spanish, Swara Magazine, Dallas Opera, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 26, 2022

Learning Spanish, Swara Magazine, Dallas Opera, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 26, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

The Olive Press: Giant database for learning Spanish created by researchers at University of Granada. “THE world’s largest database for learning Spanish as a second language has been created by researchers at the University of Granada. The Granada-based team has also created a free web application called ´CEDEL2´ that responds to international research and teaching needs of Spanish.”

InPublishing: Swara Magazine now available on Exact Editions. “Swara Magazine, first published in 1959 as Wild Life, is widely considered to be the ‘voice of conservation’ in East Africa, says Exact Editions. The publication – Swara is the Kiswahili word for the impala, a large antelope of the African plains – aims to create a collaborative space for sharing information, enabling useful connections, and to stimulate better public understanding and debate.”

Dallas Morning News: Dallas Opera opens up online streaming service for all listeners. “The Dallas Opera has eliminated the subscription fee for its online streaming service… Most videos will be free, and some will be available at a low price…. Launched last April, the service provides a range of prerecorded videos, including past productions, recitals and concerts; kid-friendly shows; behind-the-scenes programs; imaginative opera videos created for online audiences and all episodes from the Dallas Opera Network, which features opera singers and instrumental musicians in digital mini-series.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

PCWorld: RIP Internet Explorer: Microsoft’s iconic browser is being killed off in June. “Believe it or not, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still lives. But not for long. If you’re one of those people who is still reliant on Internet Explorer (hi, Dad!), Microsoft has some bad news: Microsoft will officially end support for the Internet Explorer desktop application on June 15, 2022.”

Variety: TikTok Is Adding New Video-Crediting Features, Following Backlash Among Black Creators. “TikTok is finally going to let users of the short-form app properly give credit where credit is due. The Bytedance-owned app is introducing the first iteration of creator-crediting tools that will enable — and encourage — users to link back to the videos of TikTok creators and trend originators.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: How to Use TikTok: 11 Tips for Beginners. “TikTok is currently one of the world’s most popular apps. It’s filled with videos of people dancing, lip-syncing, performing stunts, and acting out comedic skits. After scrolling through just a few videos, you won’t want to stop. Whether you’re just a casual viewer or someone who’s planning to post videos yourself, you’ll need to know how to use TikTok in order to get started. These tips for beginners should help you become a TikTok expert in no time.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

William & Mary: William & Mary Libraries announces new Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History. “Established in memory of William & Mary alumnus John Boswell, one of the most important scholars of LGBTQ history, the new archive will provide researchers and historians a foundational understanding of the political and legal advances and setbacks of LGBTQ Americans in the struggle for full citizenship.”

NiemanLab: Factchequeado launches to combat misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.. “Factchequeado, a team of five, is a service journalism project and its model is based on collaboration. It partners with English- and Spanish-language publications in the U.S. that want to republish its fact-checks and explainers. In return, Factchequeado asks that the organizations help them reach broader audiences and learn more about their news and information consumption habits by sharing its WhatsApp chatbot number.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Bleeping Computer: DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement. “The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that prides itself on its privacy by not tracking your searches or your behavior while performing searches. Furthermore, instead of building user profiles to display interest-based advertisements, DuckDuckGo will use contextual advertisements from partners, like Ads by Microsoft.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Dundee: Historical mental health research helps service users of today. “The University of Dundee is helping mental health service users to explore the experiences of asylum patients from the past as a way of improving their own wellbeing.” Good afternoon, Internet…

May 27, 2022 at 01:03AM
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RB Search Gizmos: Eliminate Recent Articles from Your Google News Search With “Back That Ask Up”

RB Search Gizmos: Eliminate Recent Articles from Your Google News Search With “Back That Ask Up”
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I didn’t get the Bellingcat Tech Fellowship, but I kept myself occupied while I was waiting to hear back. After I reviewed my application I realized I knew nothing about front-end development and that was a big weakness. I looked around, got my bearings, and enrolled in a JavaScript class. What I really want to do is work with API data, but as I’m learning that I need to practice what I do know.

So in the meantime I got a Glitch account and have started to figure out how to practically apply the JavaScript I’m learning. My first effort is a tool to eliminate recent articles from a Google News search. It’s embedded below – give it a try. If you don’t see it, make sure you don’t have any content blockers active. You can also access it directly at https://google-news-back-that-ask-up.glitch.me .

Stay tuned – learning JavaScript is giving me ideas and I’ve already got three other apps bubbling in the back of my head. If you can think of one of your search problems that might be solved with an app, leave a comment.

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May 26, 2022 at 06:28PM
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Climate Justice Resources, Argentina Genealogy, PopSign, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, May 26, 2022

Climate Justice Resources, Argentina Genealogy, PopSign, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, May 26, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Museums Association: Julie’s Bicycle launches climate justice hub. “A free online library of climate justice resources has been launched to support organisations such as museums that want to understand the systemic causes of the climate crisis and how it intersects with issues of social, economic and environmental injustice. The Creative Climate Justice Hub, which has been created by the climate action non-profit Julie’s Bicycle, will also examine how arts and culture are responding creatively to the environmental emergency.”

Buenos Aires Times: New ancestry archive allows Argentines to track ancestors’ arrival. “CEMLA has now made the historical records of immigrant arrival in Argentina available online…. Those wishing to search need the full name of the person being investigated, and the database (with information from 1800 to 1960) will reveal the ship on which their relatives sailed to Argentina, or the person’s line of work. This database comprises over 4.4 million people in total, featuring information on 200 countries of origin, over 75 years of records up to 1960, and over 3,500 vessels where they travelled to settle in this country.”

RIT / National Technical Institute for the Deaf: Parents of deaf children can more easily learn sign language thanks to powerful tech collaboration. “The Center on Access Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, in partnership with Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, is creating PopSign, which provides an extensive, interactive learning experience that parents can use anytime, anyplace.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Journal: WordPress 6.0 ‘Arturo’ Is Here With Nearly 1,000 Changes. “WordPress 6.0, named ‘Arturo,’ is launched and ready to go. This update introduces nearly 1,000 updates and enhancements that make WordPress more intuitive to use for both developers and end users.”

Protocol: Clearview expands sales of its facial recognition tools. “Barely more than two weeks after it agreed to stop selling its existing collection of face prints to private entities, facial recognition firm Clearview AI has a brand new plan to sell its software to private companies instead.”

PC World: OneNote is evolving into the near-perfect app for students. ” For years, Microsoft OneNote has allowed you to record the audio of a meeting, then take notes, syncing the audio to your inked or typed notes for later review. Now Microsoft is doing that feature one better by adding transcription, too. Microsoft also unveiled sweeping aesthetic and functional changes that are coming to OneNote, part of a plan to unify the OneNote apps in Windows.”

USEFUL STUFF

Mashable: From lake science to bones to snails, these TikTok accounts are STEM treasure troves. “Since its inception, TikTok has quickly become an arbiter of culture, memes, and even political organizing, all while curating eerily specific For Your Pages for its users full of dancing videos, funny filters, and viral songs. But one of its most promising uses is connecting more people to fun, educational accounts, spanning the range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).”

MakeUseOf: The 4 Best Online Tools to Write Musical Notation. “If you’re tired of writing out musical notation and writing scores by hand, then you’ve no doubt looked to the internet to try and find a better solution. Most solutions, however, require you to download programs in order to work with them, which can be a problem if you work from multiple PCs running multiple operating systems. Luckily, there are plenty of online writing tools available that you can use entirely for free. Here are some of the best.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

New York Times: 6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet. “Despite the connectedness and convenience it allows, the internet’s tightening grip on every aspect of life isn’t without costs, like when a young man turned to YouTube for direction and found himself pulled into the far-right, as shown in The Times’s narrative audio series Rabbit Hole. These six shows tap into some of those dangers, exploring cybercrime, cryptocurrency and the many flavors of horror that lurk on the dark web.”

WIRED: Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data . “SINCE ITS FOUNDING in 2014, ProtonMail has become synonymous with user-friendly encrypted email. Now the company is trying to be synonymous with a whole lot more. On Wednesday morning, it announced that it’s changing its name to, simply, Proton—a nod at its broader ambitions within the universe of online privacy. The company will now offer an ‘ecosystem’ of linked products, all accessed via one paid subscription.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Alberta: App uses artificial intelligence to track healing wounds in real time. “Three U of A engineering students have developed a mobile app that tracks the progress of a healing wound. The app calculates whether treatments are working as they should based on descriptions of size, depth and shape along with more subjective impressions of pain and irritation, says programmer Connor Povoledo. Accurate tracking can predict infection and other complications and allow patients, particularly in remote areas, to decide whether urgent care is needed.”

University of North Carolina: South Carolina and Virginia to join University Libraries’ On the Books project. “The University Libraries has selected the University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia to be partners for On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, funded by the Mellon Foundation. On the Books uses text mining and machine learning to identify racist language in North Carolina legal documents during the Jim Crow era (1866-1967). Libraries at the partner institutions will work with the project team at UNC-Chapel Hill to compile machine-readable versions of their states’ laws and identify Jim Crow language in them.” Good morning, Internet…

May 26, 2022 at 05:35PM
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Ukrainian Refugees in the UK, Cryptocurrency Fundraising, New Commemorative Stamps, More: Ukraine Update, May 25, 2022

Ukrainian Refugees in the UK, Cryptocurrency Fundraising, New Commemorative Stamps, More: Ukraine Update, May 25, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

The Irish News: Ukrainian refugees in the UK have made calls to a slavery and exploitation helpline. “Unseen said millions of Ukrainians need support to keep them safe from trafficking. The charity, along with a coalition of anti-slavery and human rights groups, has launched a new website… The website aims to provide a one-stop shop of useful websites, helplines, and information including where to get basic travel and housing advice to opening a bank account and understanding your rights as a worker in the UK.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Reuters: Cryptocurrency crash devalues Ukraine’s government crypto fundraise. “Cryptocurrencies have fallen sharply in recent weeks. Bitcoin has lost more than 20% of its price so far in May, following a 17% drop in April, highlighting the risks faced by holders of the highly volatile assets. All the funds raised in the ‘Aid for Ukraine’ fund were stored in cryptocurrency but the government was able to spend $45 million of it on equipment for Ukraine’s army before the crash, Bornyakov said in written responses to Reuters questions.”

Publishers Weekly: Efforts for Ukrainian Publishers, Refugee Children Expand. “In the months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the international publishing community has come together with a number of initiatives aimed at offering support to children’s authors, publishers, and aid organizations. Here, we continue to cover these ongoing efforts.”

Washington Post: Ukraine issues stamp commemorating sinking of Russian warship. “The previous set of six stamps featured a Ukrainian service member making a rude hand gesture at a Russian warship from the shore. The latest set includes three of those same stamps as well as three modified stamps showing the service member still standing, but not the ship.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Poynter: This college ‘nerd’ investigates the Ukraine war from the digital front lines. “Until earlier this year, The Intel Crab, which has more than 250,000 followers and a reach in the tens of millions, was among the latter. But Justin Peden, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Alabama-Birmingham who only recently switched his major to journalism, revealed his identity earlier this year. ‘I’m no longer anonymous for one simple reason: I want to be held accountable for my work,’ Peden told me. ‘Both positively and negatively.'”

iNews: ‘How to steal a Russian tank’: The extraordinary resistance tips the Ukrainian government is giving civilians. “The determination of Ukrainians to repulse the Kremlin’s invasion has taken many forms but few can sum it up better than the entry on an official website aimed at citizens living behind enemy lines. It reads: ‘How to start and steal a Russian tank.’ The online guidance comes complete with diagrams of a tank crew compartment and detailed instructions on how to get a T-72 moving, as well as information on accessing the fuel cap.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: Exclusive-Russian hackers are linked to new Brexit leak website, Google say. “A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain’s exit from the European Union is tied to Russian hackers, according to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence.”

Coda Story: Social media companies are facing pressure to start archiving war crimes evidence. How will that work?. “Long before politicians caught on, Alexa Koenig, the executive director of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, was working on how social media can be used as evidence in international courts — and how companies can do a better job of preserving it. In the report Digital Lockers: Archiving Social Media Evidence of Atrocity Crimes, Koenig and her team outlined how social media platforms can transform from ‘accidental and unstable archives for human rights content’ to vaults of evidence accessible to investigators and prosecutors. Going a step further, the team at the Human Rights Center created a framework for using digital open source information in international courts.”

ABS-CBN News: Russia orders blogger’s arrest over Ukraine videos. “A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the detention in absentia of Russian blogger Michael Nacke, accusing him of discrediting the Russian army and its offensive in Ukraine. Nacke, a 28-year-old Kremlin critic, hosts a YouTube channel with more than 700,000 subscribers that discusses Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. A citizen of Russia, he is currently in Lithuania, he told AFP, after Moscow’s Basmanny court ordered his detention.”

Associated Press: Pro-Russian Hackers Spread Hoaxes to Divide Ukraine, Allies. “As Ukrainians flooded into Poland earlier this year to flee Russian invaders, a hacking group aligned with the Kremlin sought to spread rumors that criminal gangs were waiting to harvest the organs of child refugees. The network, known to cybersecurity experts as Ghostwriter, seemingly aimed to sow distrust between Ukraine and Poland. It’s one of several tactics outlined in a new report that outlines how Russia has used disinformation, fear and propaganda alongside bullets, tanks and soldiers in an effort to demoralize Ukraine and divide its allies.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

War on the Rocks: The Dubious Prospects For Cargo-Delivery Drones In Ukraine. “A frenzy of drone experimentation is already underway in Ukraine. Faine Greenwood has collected more than 400 references to drone usage in Ukraine, primarily for surveillance, journalism, targeting, and documentation. Ukrainian forces have also demonstrated the ability to use small drones to drop grenades and other small explosives on Russian troops — a use case that, technologically speaking, is almost identical to airdropping aid.”

NewsWise: Statistical Physics Rejects Theory of ‘Two Ukraines’. “When reading news and analyses of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, researchers in Spain perceived many conflicting messages being transmitted. The most notable one is the theory of ‘two Ukraines’ or the existence of ideologically pro-West and pro-Russian regions. This doesn’t match the unity of Ukrainians against the Russian invasion, so they wondered if they could provide any solid proof to support or reject such a theory via data analysis tools?”

May 26, 2022 at 02:35AM
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