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Bandcamp Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Songtradr
Bandcamp’s union alleges that Songtradr “refused” to hire employees because they “joined or supported a labor organization and in order to discourage union activities or membership.”
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YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market
Volunteers in Philadelphia’s Kensington say YouTubers and TikTokers are increasingly exploiting drug users as “trauma porn stars.”
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Netanyahu’s Government Is Trying to Suspend the Freedom of Information
A proposed law would prevent journalists and the Israeli public from seeing how the government is managing one of the worst crises in the country’s history.
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Bandcamp Editorial Director: “Fuuuuuck Bandcamp United”
"Bandcamp United is privileged tech workers cosplaying as Amazon warehouse workers," he said.
GTA V Mod Makes It a Better Social Media Platform Than Twitter
2girls1comp bring a fine art sensibility to the GTA V modding community.
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‘Verified’ OSINT Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosystem
The problem with profit and engagement driven misinformation from pseudo-OSINT accounts during the Israel-Palestine conflict is "unprecedented." One expert said after Musk's recent changes "all hell broke loose."
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Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
Songtradr, which has acquired Bandcamp from Epic Games, said it did not have union membership information, but Songtradr’s CEO invited the bargaining team to a meeting last week.
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Marc Andreessen Manifesto Says AI Regulation “Is a Form of Murder”
Marc Andreesen’s latest a16z post makes a list of AI “enemies.”
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AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a “second level of disinformation.”
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Counter-Strike 2 Is ‘Garbage,’ Say Players Who Played Counter-Strike for 3,000 Hours
Valve’s erasure of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stirs the narcissism of small differences.
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‘Dream’ AI Girlfriend Randomly Turns Into Nude Jennifer Lopez, Has Four Legs
A nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where AI image generators accidentally spit out non-consensual pornography of real people, is now reality.
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4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images
A coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images is using Bing and DALL-E 3’s text-to-image AI tool.