Just listened to this interview with the creators of the #Foodprint app, and the owner of two of the hospitality businesses that sell food on it. Lots of positives here; reducing food waste, giving people access to cheaper counter food from bakeries and cafes, helping hospo businesses stay solvent in hard times, and using digital tech to solve environmental and social problems.
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Newsrooms in Aotearoa are bleeding staff - again - and some are holding up the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill as the solution, based on the supposed success of the similar Australian law, the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. Now Meta have announced a game of chicken with the government there over whether they have to comply with that law;
Australia correspondent Chris Niesche looks at the relief within Labor at managing to hold the seat of Dunkley at the weekend's by-election. Where does that leave Peter Dutton's Liberals? And Meta has announced it'll stop paying Australian publishers for news and shut down the news tab it had set up. What impact could that have on the media landscape?
"Danny de Hek has produced more than 130 videos taking apart the crypto currency investment, which he calls a dangerous and deceptive scheme."
What I found particularly insightful in this interview was the parallels he draws between the psychological manipulation that makes ponzi schemes work, and that of religious cults.
It was an email from a friend offering a investment opportunity he couldn't turn down that transformed Christchurch man Danny de Hek into a self confessed Crypto Ponzi Scheme buster. Since that email de Hek has produced more than 130 videos taking apart the crypto currency investment, which he calls a dangerous and deceptive scheme. Recording from his Christchurch home he has caught the attention of the those pushing the scheme, including death threats, and his efforts have also been profiled in the New York Times. Danny says the whole thing is a typical multi level marketing scam, but because it uses the blockchain it makes it much harder to track down who is in charge, leaving those on the bottom, some of who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, with nothing.
Here's a short interview about attempts to stop the DataFarms pulling the next generation into social media addiction while they're still kids. Echoes of the strategies the tobacco industry used to generate future customers for cigarettes.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018868217/meta-s-planned-changes-for-kids-safety-will-they-work
Tech giant Meta says its planned changes to Instagram and Facebook will help keep its youngest users safer online, but the company hasn't ruled out pushing forward with a kids-only Instagram. "But is it too little to late"? Kathryn talks to David Monahan from FairPlay,
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