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Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish and no one in a position of oversight has pushed forcefully to keep the process on track, WTTW News and ProPublica found.
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Join a lively conversation and Q&A via Zoom with the Media and Democracy Project and our special guest, Eric Beecher. Journalist and editor. We discuss his powerful new book "The Men Who Killed The News". The inside story of how Media Moguls (such as Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, William Randolph Hearst) abused their power, manipulated truth and distorted Democracy. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Men-Who-Killed-the-News/Eric-Beecher/9781761428050 Mr. Beecher is also famous being sued by the Murdochs in Australia for his newspaper calling Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch "unindicted co-conspirators in the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol". He won the lawsuit. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/21/lachlan-murdoch-drops-defamation-proceedings-against-independent-australian-publisher-crikey He will share his experiences working for, tangling with Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch - and his must read book that synthesizes the history of abuse of power of media owners. This book reveals the distorted role of the media moguls of the past two centuries: their techniques, strategies, behind-closed-doors machinations, and indulgent lifestyles. It explains how they have exploited the shield of the freedom of the press to undermine journalism – and truth.
ICANN's proposal to go ahead with another round of gTLDs is a complete money grab, and another giant fraud, spam and scam turd for Internet users in general. I'm talking about tlds like .top, .work, .shop, .vip, etc.
New domains used for phishing, spam and scams account for an overwhelming share of customers of these new gTLDs, which often have rock-bottom prices -- especially for bulk registrations. Overall, new gTLDs tend to be a race to the bottom where the only way they can make a profit is to sell domains en masse, and the market for such demand skews massively towards scammers.
ICANN's proposal to ignore history and introduce another round of new gTLDs should be squashed by regulators. But it won't. Like the AI crap being crammed into everything these days whether you like it or not, ICANN is going to keep creating new gTLDs because it's been a huge cash cow for them.
https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round2
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Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)
I call bs on this. 10 billion robots at $20k a piece in 20 years? If we had 200 trillion dollars, we should work on CO₂ removal.
https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-optimus-robots-outnumber-humans-1851683997
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