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Please Stop Trying To Sell Me Crypto
First it was Matt Damon and Spike Lee, and now the blockchain has come for Larry David and Lebron James. David and James became the latest celebrities to endorse cryptocurrency, in Super Bowl commercials aired this Sunday — David as a character mocking great ideas throughout history in an ad for the Bahamian crypto exchange FTX, and present-day Lebron James traveling back in time to Biff Tannen his digitally de-aged teenage self into buying crypto in an ad for Crypto.com, a Singapore-based exchange app.
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Big Tech told it should reimburse victims of online scams
Big Tech companies whose online platforms carry advertisements for scams should be made to reimburse victims as part of wider efforts to combat a growing epidemic of online fraud, British lawmakers said.
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The metaverse is dystopian – but to big tech it’s a business opportunity
Once upon a time, a very long time ago – until Thursday 28 October 2021, to be precise – the term “metaverse” was known only to lexicographers and science fiction enthusiasts. And then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How come? Simply this: Mark Zuckerberg, the supreme leader of Facebook, pissed off by seeing nothing but bad news about his company in the media...
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Amanda Gorman: Why I Almost Didn’t Read My Poem at the Inauguration
It’s told like this: Amanda Gorman performed at the inauguration and the rest is history. The truth is I almost declined to be the inaugural poet. Why? I was terrified. I was scared of failing my people, my poetry. But I was also terrified on a physical level. Covid was still raging, and my age group couldn’t get vaccinated yet. Just a few weeks before, domestic terrorists assaulted the U.S. Capitol, the very steps where I would recite.
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You can't be a vegan and still eat at fast food chains
Veganism has gone mainstream, so it’s easy to forget what life used to be like for us plant-munchers. In restaurants we had to endure awkward conversations with bewildered waiters, who would disappear to the kitchen and return saying they could do us the salad with the cheese picked out and the dressing left off. We’d go home hungry.
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Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says 'nobody cares' about Uyghur genocide in China
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya triggered a backlash on social media after saying during a recent episode of his podcast that “nobody cares” about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in China.
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It Doesn't Make Sense to Treat Facebook Like a Public Utility
FACEBOOK IS A lot like a landfill, not only because it’s full of other people’s shit but because, while everyone agrees something needs to be done about it, nobody seems to quite know what. What most (American) commentators have in common, though, is where they look for the answer: the late 19th and early 20th century trust-busting and progressive movements, when activists and politicians broke harmful concentrations of economic power in everything from oil to railways.
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Extraditing Julian Assange Threatens Journalists Worldwide
On December 14, while addressing the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, the ambassador-designate to Pakistan, Donald Armin Blome, pledged that he would champion the press in his new post. “Pakistani journalists and members of civil society face kidnappings, assaults, intimidation and disappearances,” he said, promising to advocate for expanded protections and to hold the perpetrators of these actions to account.
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Republicans Are Moving Rapidly to Cement Minority Rule. Blame the Constitution.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the violent assault on the Capitol, the prevailing argument on the left and much of the center is that the Republican Party poses a novel threat to American democracy. This is a flawed assessment, which oversells and understates the danger we face.
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How the misuse of antibiotics on animals poses a serious threat to modern medicine as we know it
Of late, we’ve been getting used to shortages of things we’ve previously taken for granted, like petrol, gas, toilet rolls, HGV drivers and seasonal labour. Could it be that we’re about to add a new item to that list: antibiotics?
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How ‘Succession’ Turns Getting What You Want Into Hell
The characters in HBO’s prestige hit let us set aside judgment and just marvel at how ardently, how comically, people will chase after the worst thing for them. Two years ago, as HBO’s “Succession” finished its second season, we saw Logan Roy, the head of a right-wing media empire, looking for someone in his inner circle to serve as the scapegoat for a corporate scandal. One candidate was his hapless son-in-law, Tom Wambsgans.
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It's time to stop hero worshiping the tech billionaires
The other day on Twitter, someone made the observation asked, "How you feel about Elon Musk is how you feel about yourself." At least one reader enthusiastically agreed. "That is how I feel about myself!" wrote Elon Musk. "Oh wait …" If it seems like Musk is in your head as much as he seems to be on his own – there is a good reason. He is reported to be the richest man in the world, is doing comedy on network television and at the end of the year has been racking up honors like Time's Person of the Year, the FT's Person of the Year, and induction into Newsweek's Disruptor Hall of Fame.
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Bucket lists: are they really such a good idea?
It was revealed last week that a retired lecturer named Darrell Meekcom had been arrested for indecent exposure and dangerous driving after he mooned a speed camera. It sounds as though he’d managed to perform a contortionist manoeuvre at the wheel but in fact he stopped the car and got out while his wife went to buy some bread. The key detail, though, is that Meekcom is terminally ill, having been diagnosed with multiple system atrophy.
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Stop Trying to Find Magic Words to Convince Climate Opponents
Enemies of climate action don’t need to be convinced. They need to be removed from power.
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Why We Need ‘Goosebumps’ More Than Ever
Thanks to R.L. Stine’s scary stories for kids, I’ve been able to replace some of the real horrors of the past year with fears outlandish enough to laugh at.
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It's Not a Self-Driving Car Unless You Can Sleep In It
I’d like to say the most entertaining thing about my job at Argo AI is riding around Miami Beach in self-driving test cars several days a week. But that would be a lie. The most entertaining thing about my job is reading about self-driving cars while riding in the back of one.
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Invasion Made Me Root for the Aliens
The first episode of Invasion, the new aliens-attack-Earth series premiering today on Apple TV+, gives you the impression that it will be a fairly rote entry in the genre of Devastating Alien Crisis Inspires Global Panic and Individual Resiliency. Sam Neill plays a small-town sheriff heading out for his last day on the job before retirement.
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Is Mark Zuckerberg a Man Without Principles?
The veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg unpacks the Facebook Files with historical context and personal anecdotes.
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The Great Supply-Chain Massacre | by Diane Coyle
It is unclear whether current widespread product shortages are merely a temporary disruption or evidence of a global production meltdown. But today’s supply shocks offer striking parallels with the 2008 global financial crisis, and may require a similarly bold policy response.
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Why an African perspective on humanity shows that survivor's guilt makes sense
Sometimes individuals who survive a tragedy, such as a tsunami, report feeling guilty that they lived while innocent people close to them perished. Similarly, I have had some black professionals in post-apartheid South Africa tell me they feel guilty for having left their townships or villages and “made it” while their former neighbours still live in poverty.
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