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FB Meta has to be the shittiest thing around. I will be so glad when facebook finally dies.

Adobe CC just became more expensive because of AI. Though you can get a cheaoer olan without AI. It probably means that the non AI plan is going to become shittier and shittier till you shell out for the more expensive plan ugh helpx.adobe.com/creative-clo...

NYC, you'd be insane to not vote for him. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

YouTube video by Hot Docs Hot Docs 2025 Trailer: MARRIAGE COPS

We’ll be in Toronto for our world premiere. Say hello if you are there. youtu.be/vFvbpDoQYT4?...

Marriage Cops | Hot Docs In northern India's Dehradun, an all-women police unit tackles troubled marriages with unexpected wisdom and authority. Inside the bustling station, couples confront domestic turmoil while the officer...

Very exciting news! April 27th will be the world premiere of Marriage Cops at the Hot Docs Film Festival, a film that @shashwati.com and Cheryl Hess have been working on for years. If you are in Toronto please spread the word. It is an amazing film, so don't miss it.

beyond defense a price must be extracted. son of a bitch must pay

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

Why #Netflix sucks. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

YouTube video by Shirley Șerban We Didn't Start The Fire Parody Song for 2024 - Trump, You're FIRED!

Trump, in one song. youtu.be/tQLllnGww8M?...

The Onion nails it.

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals. This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

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How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.

The Uberization of media consumption and production. And a revelation about that well kept secret: Netiflixes viewer numbers. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/m...

mmm breakfast.

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war A year later, memorials to the 7 October attacks use art, virtual reality and dark tourism to stir support for limitless violence. But there is a different way to remember

The prosthetic trauma of Dark Tourism in Israel, and its role in the unhinged colonial genocide of the Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Penguin chicks miraculously survive tearaway iceberg For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.

Penguin chicks miraculously survive tearaway iceberg

Atishi becomes Delhi’s third woman Chief Minister, 17th in India’s history Atishi becomes Delhi's youngest woman Chief Minister, following in the footsteps of 16 other women leaders in India.

AAP leader Atishi took oath on Saturday as Delhi's third woman Chief Minister and became the youngest of all three to hold the top office in the National Capital. She also became the 17th woman to hold the post of Chief Minister in independent India.
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How Google Ads Are Funding Disinformation Campaigns in India A Bellingcat investigation found 46 websites running ads by Google alongside debunked statements inciting hate in India.

Bellingcat’s Pooja Chaudhuri reveals how articles based on disinformation and hateful content on Indian websites are continuing to generate profit through Google’s Adsense programme and other ad tech platforms despite being debunked by fact-checkers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08...

Bryan Metzger: JD Vance hit Tim Walz as a "San Francisco-style liberal" during his remarks in Philadelphia a while ago. A key irony there: Vance spent about four years living in SF between 2013 and 2017 as a venture capitalist. Walz visited SF for the first time *just last month.*

This is very funny.

Why isn’t X dead yet? A business model that is based on misinformation and trolling deserves to die. Oh and #ToxucElonMusk must go.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Statement on Donald Trump backing out of the debate "Donald Trump is running scared and trying to back out of the debate he already agreed to and running straight to Fox News to bail him out. He needs to stop playing games and show up to the debate he already committed to on Sept 10. The Vice President will be there one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a prime time national audience. We're happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to. Mr. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace should have no problem with that unless he's too scared to show up on the 10th."

Harris to Trump: Bok bok bok bok bok

Simon J. Levien Simon J. Levien is a Times political reporter covering the 2024 elections and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers.

I think we may be slightly overreacting to the NYT piece on the Trump debate “agreement” in that NYT let the intern write it.

Trump Insists That He and His Weird VP Pick J.D. Vance Are ‘Not Weird’ If the strategic intention driving the Dem's anti-"weird" messaging campaign was to crawl under Trump's skin, the effort has been a success.

Trump clutching his pearls. So #weird. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

#TrumpWeird #JDWeird

Washington insiders simulated a second Trump presidency. Can a role-play save democracy? In a DC-area hotel, Democrats and Republicans met to wargame five scenarios they say are ‘not unrealistic’

Wargaming Trump 2 and coming up short

"Time is short, and the work of preparation demands more ambition and more hands on deck."

This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election This time Kamala Harris will be the target for the social media platforms that promote prejudice

“networked misogyny across multiple global platforms that will earn tech bro owners billions of dollars – and decide the 2024 election.

It’s misogyny that will dictate the future of NATO, the war in Ukraine, peace or war in Europe. A firehose that will be directed at a single woman – Kamala Harris”

Famous US hockey pick. But says “do you believe in mass incarceration?” not “… miracles.”

NBC just said the French built the Olympic Village so it could be converted into housing after the Games.

Know how the US designed Lake Placid’s Olympic Village in 1980?

No lie—so it could be converted into a Federal prison. Which it still is, to this day.

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

What?! Academic publishers are known to be evil. But this evil? Wow. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

In pre-liberalisation India, Camlin delivered a quiet reassurance about India’s own capability It was not about any manufactured made-in-India nationalism. The allure of the foreign still ran strong. But there was something solid and dependable about it that made it a stalwart.

The magic of Camlin. Not just a nostalgic fetish for deprivation. READ: In pre-liberalisation India, Camlin delivered a quiet reassurance about India’s own capability

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