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Announcing the Winners of the 3rd Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
Announcing the Winners of the 3rd Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world. By Staff , Truthout Published October 1, 2023 Tim Hüfner via Unsplash The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.
Murdoch’s Legacy Includes Giving Airtime to Climate Denialism and the Far Right
As billionaire Rupert Murdoch announces he will resign as head of his media empire, we speak with Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of the watchdog group Media Matters for America, about the right-wing mogul’s influence on journalism and politics over the last seven decades. The 92-year-old Murdoch will step down as chair of Fox Corporation and News Corporation in November, with his son Lachlan to head both companies that control Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and more.
Gen Z Is Disrupting “Business as Usual” Workplaces - and That’s a Good Thing
During the difficulties of this recession, recent grads like me are facing a tough job market. Gen Z is already credited and criticized for its impact on the workplace. As I scroll through LinkedIn, I’m flooded with endless articles dubbing Gen Z as disruptive, challenging and demanding at work. And maybe for good reason: From preferring remote/hybrid work, to pushing for shorter work weeks and strong labor union support, Gen Z is poised to transform our society’s relationship to work.
Blaming Workers for AI Shortcomings - a New Corporate Strategy?
Amid unprecedented inflation of Canadian grocery prices which were up 9.1 percent year-over-year in June 2023, Microsoft recently posted an article to MSN.com which offered travel tips for the capital city Ottawa. The article included a suggestion to check out the Ottawa Food Bank, with this unusual advice: “Life is already difficult enough.
Amid Hollywood Strike, Is AI the Problem? Or Is Corporate Greed the Problem?
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in striking against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, protesting working conditions, unfair wages and the need for increased residual payments because of the streaming entertainment model. These are all bread-and-butter issues for striking workers, but what makes this strike different is the added concern of the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Expert Who Met With Biden Explains How AI Is Enabling Racism and Sexism
Image Credit: Coded Bias We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias.
Arkansas Governor Signs Bill Making It Easier to Violate Child Labor Laws
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed a bill into law on Tuesday that would roll back child labor protections in the state as Republicans across the country wage a campaign to make it easier for employers to violate child labor laws. The law eliminates the requirement for children under 16 to show documentation of their age in order to work. Before this, employers seeking to employ a 14- or 15-year-old child had to obtain a permit showing the child’s age.
BuzzFeed’s AI-Produced Content Experiment Is a Glimpse Into a Bleak Future
The internet media company BuzzFeed, which produces short articles, quizzes and lists such as “18 Ridiculously Cosy Clothes From Amazon That Have Been Getting Us Through The January Blues” was struggling. After going public in December 2021 with a $1.5 billion valuation, the company’s stock dropped precipitously, losing 80 percent of its value by the end of 2022.
Prosecution of Assange Would Lead to End of the First Amendment, Advocates Warn
Skip to content Skip to footer Prominent lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders say prosecuting Assange poses a grave threat to journalism. Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg joined other leading journalists, attorneys and human rights defenders to call on the Biden administration to drop its extradition request and indictment against journalist and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, citing the grave threat Assange’s prosecution would pose to journalism worldwide.
Toward a political economy of synthetic data: A data-intensive capitalism that is not a surveillance capitalism?
Surveillance is the unspoken byword of contemporary capitalism. New business models driven by data-intensive technologies like machine learning rely on the collection of large quantities of data, much of which is obtained by surveilling users of social media, mobile devices, and applications. The capitalist drive to accumulation is increasingly funneled through this data-intensive infrastructure, making surveillance a prerequisite for profit-generation.
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