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They are not "misleading videos." They are lies. Disinformation. Deep fakes. Propaganda. And they don't trail Biden. Fascist propagandists do. And you help them, NY Times.

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China set up a new $47.5B state-backed investment fund on May 24 to boost the country's semiconductor industry (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001 (Michael Kan/PCMag) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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In case you missed it, DMs are now available on Bluesky. 280k+ DMs have been sent already! 📬📈 Make sure you're on the latest version of the app (1.83) or refresh desktop to see DMs. ✨

"Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over." - Sandra Day O'Connor

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A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the lawsuit had been brought as a means toward "punishing the defendants for their speech" (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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UK blames China for massive breach of voter data

UK blames China for massive breach of voter datatcrn.ch It's the first time the United Kingdom has attributed the massive breach of voter data since the cyberattack was first disclosed in 2023. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them." - Elizabeth Taylor

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It's not like the world is wrestling with implications of tech for art, what it means to be human, the healthcare needs of aging populations, threats to ability to find truth with corporate capture of all kinds of media, the future of music, and means to think all that through. Critical thought FTW?

List of courses being cut at the University of Kent Uni says: "This is linked to data on what students are looking to study nationally..." www.kent.ac.uk/student/kent... #UKUnis #EduSky #HigherEd #ArtHistory #Anthropology #HealthCare #Journalism #Music #PhilSky #Religion

Mar 22: First Stanley Cup championship played (1894); Legendary musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born (1948); Sports broadcaster Bob Costas born (1952); Reese Witherspoon born (1976); Terrorist drives car into crowd in London, killing five and injuring 50 (2017).

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Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 21, 2024 ~ Goodbye trees. "We found that trees in warmer, drier climates are essentially coughing instead of breathing. They are sending CO₂ right back into the atmosphere far more than trees in cooler, wetter conditions." scitechdaily.com/climate-chan...

Climate Change Is Causing Trees To Struggle To “Breathe”scitechdaily.com Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the pl...

"Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society." - John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marches

Mar 21: Pocahontas is buried (1617); Martin Luther King Jr. leads third and ultimately successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (1965); The US announces boycott of Summer Olympics in Moscow (1980); Twitter is founded (2006).

"It's not the honors and prizes of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff." - Mister Rogers

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Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini

Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Geminitcrn.ch In a never-ending saga between Google and France’s competition authority over copyright protections for news snippets, the Autorité de la Concurrence announced a €250 million fine against the tech giant Wednesday (around $270 million at today’s exchange…

"All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing." - Philip Roth

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Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data center

Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data centertcrn.ch Nvidia benefits tremendously if it can persuade companies to think of data centers and AI tools in a different way. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Mar 19: American novelist Philip Roth born (1933); Glenn Close born (1947); Bruce Willis born (1955); Texas Western, now known as UTEP, is first basketball team to win NCAA Championship with all-Black starting lineup (1966); Iraq War begins (2003).

"The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against." - Vanessa Williams

Mar 18: President Grover Cleveland born (1837); Actress and first Black Miss America Vanessa Williams born (1963); Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes first person to walk in space (1965); Queen Latifah born (1970).

"Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more." - Selma Lagerlöf

Mar 16: US Founding Father James Madison born (1751); US Military Academy is established (1802); Comedian Jerry Lewis born (1926); Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf dies (1940); Dow Jones drops by 2,997, single-largest point drop in history, amid pandemic fears (2020).

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mar 15: The Ides of March: Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus (44 BCE); President Andrew Jackson born (1767); Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg born (1933); Terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand kills 51 (2019).

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built." - Simone Biles

Mar 14: Eli Whitney patents cotton gin (1794); Albert Einstein born (1879); Stephen Curry born (1988); Seven-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles born (1997); Stephen Hawking dies (2018).

"Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation." - Susan B. Anthony

Mar 13: Uranus discovered (1781); President Benjamin Harrison dies (1901); Susan B. Anthony dies (1906); Tennis star Coco Gauff born (2004); Pope Francis' papacy begins (2013).

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An investigation finds 128 people complained to US law enforcement agencies over non-consensual sexual content being shared on OnlyFans between 2019 and 2023 (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Tierra Biosciences nabs $11 million to create new AI-guided proteins

Tierra Biosciences nabs $11 million to create new AI-guided proteinstcrn.ch By using cell-free technology, Tierra is able to cut down protein manufacturing from months to weeks and enable customers to order proteins online. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.