October 31, 2021

Natural History Museum: Digitising all of the Natural History Museum’s collections could create immense global societal benefit – with economic value of more than £2bn

Natural History Museum: Digitising all of the Natural History Museum’s collections could create immense global societal benefit – with economic value of more than £2bn. “The societal benefits of digitising natural history collections extends to global advancements in food security, biodiversity conservation, medicine discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitising natural history museum collections could also result in a tenfold return.”

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October 31, 2021

Refinery29: Social Media Is Eating Itself — Just Look At The Meta Selfie

Refinery29: Social Media Is Eating Itself — Just Look At The Meta Selfie . “Instagram fatigue is real. And so the lawless, unattainable ideal has taken a 180, and taking its place is content packaged up to be relatable, spur-of-the-moment, and candid — think blurry outfit photos, close-up crying photos, and referential memes. To put it frankly: traditionally ‘bad’ photos are in. The lower the quality, the better; the blurrier, the better.”

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October 31, 2021

NBC News: Documents reveal Facebook targeted children as young as 6 for consumer base

NBC News: Documents reveal Facebook targeted children as young as 6 for consumer base. “In the internal blog post published April 9, the author wrote that the company planned to hire several positions as it expanded into offering its full range of products to children younger than its current threshold of 13 years old. Diagrams illustrate proposed new target age groups, ranging from kids 6 to 9 years old and tweens 10 to 12 years old — along with existing targets of early teens from 13 to 15 years old, late teens from 16 to 17 years old, and adults.”

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October 31, 2021

Ancient Origins: Huge Study Tracks The Global Evolution of Ancient Military Technology

Ancient Origins: Huge Study Tracks The Global Evolution of Ancient Military Technology. “An international team of researchers has published a paper that sheds new light on how ancient military technology and the weapons industry changed through time. Their ancient military technology study covers almost 10,000 years of world history, ranging from the late Neolithic period (7,000 BC to 5,000 BC) to modern times. Using a large centralized digital library known as ‘Seshat: Global History Databank,’ they were able to analyze data obtained from historical and archaeological studies that have taken place all over the globe.”

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October 31, 2021

NiemanLab: I’m in the consortium possessing the leaked Facebook documents. Let’s dissolve it.

NiemanLab: I’m in the consortium possessing the leaked Facebook documents. Let’s dissolve it.. “On Monday, the consortium of news organizations tasked with combing through Frances Haugen’s Facebook documents expanded its ranks to include my small, independent newsletter, Big Technology. While it’s nice to be in this consortium — which includes the AP, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and others — I now believe it’s time to dissolve it.”

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October 31, 2021

New York Times: Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?

New York Times: Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?. “Whistle-blowers have filed at least nine complaints to the agency, which has oversight of public companies like Facebook, using a selection of the internal documents to argue that Facebook misled investors with a rosier picture of the company than they knew to be true. The S.E.C. can impose big fines for misleading investors and impose restrictions on corporate leaders. A case from securities regulators is probably far from a slam dunk, several legal experts said. The accusations in the complaints don’t appear to be quite as clear-cut as many other accounting and fraud cases taken up by the agency, they said.”

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October 31, 2021

The Justice: Open-access journal will join JSTOR Archive after fall issue

The Justice: Open-access journal will join JSTOR Archive after fall issue. “CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion (J-CASTE), an open-access journal developed by Laurence Simon, Professor of International Development and Director of the Center for Global Development (Heller), will join the JSTOR Archive following the publication of its upcoming fall issue…. Since CASTE’s early days of development, the journal has stayed loyal to its original message, Simon said. The journal mainly examines social policies aimed towards countering exclusion and intolerance in multiple spheres, and authors featured in the journal include scholars of philosophy and ethics, theology and culture, sociology and anthropology, economics, law, health, literature and art among others.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
October 31, 2021

StateScoop: Reporter who notified Missouri officials of website flaw did ‘nothing out of line,’ emails show

StateScoop: Reporter who notified Missouri officials of website flaw did ‘nothing out of line,’ emails show. “The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who notified Missouri officials of a website flaw that exposed public-school teachers’ Social Security numbers told the state he would hold back on publishing his discovery for up to 48 hours and provided the state with details about how he found the flaw, records obtained by StateScoop show. In doing so, he followed the widely accepted steps in disclosing a vulnerability, according to a person who wrote the international standards for vulnerability disclosure.”

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October 31, 2021

WGNO: The New Orleans Cemetery Database

This is actually from June but I missed it then, and it seems a good thing for Halloween. WGNO: The New Orleans Cemetery Database. “With all of its intercultural charm, New Orleans is a feast for the eyes. Millions flock to the city and our impressed with the design of the cemeteries. Recently, The Historic New Orleans Collection launched The New Orleans Cemetery Database.”

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October 31, 2021

Washington Post: Covid cases and deaths grossly underestimated among meatpackers, House investigation finds

Washington Post: Covid cases and deaths grossly underestimated among meatpackers, House investigation finds. “More workers at the country’s top five meatpacking companies were sickened and died of the coronavirus than had been previously estimated, an investigation by the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis has found. At least 59,000 workers at Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef — companies that control the lion’s share of the U.S. meat market — were infected with the coronavirus during the pandemic’s first year, according to a report the subcommittee released Wednesday on its findings. At least 269 workers across these companies died of covid-19 between March 1, 2020, and Feb. 1.”

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October 31, 2021

NPR: Fox anchor Neil Cavuto urged viewers to get vaccinated. Then came the death threats

NPR: Fox anchor Neil Cavuto urged viewers to get vaccinated. Then came the death threats. “Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto has battled multiple health challenges over the years, including stage 4 cancer, open heart surgery, multiple sclerosis and, currently, COVID-19. Now some of his viewers are sending him death threats — because he encouraged them to get vaccinated for their own safety.”

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October 31, 2021

New York Times: Has the Virus Infected Huge Numbers of Younger Children?

New York Times: Has the Virus Infected Huge Numbers of Younger Children?. “A startling statistic emerged as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday debated use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. According to one federal scientist, by June an estimated 42 percent of these children had already been infected with the coronavirus. That figure was much higher than anyone expected. But the estimate, which was from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, might have overstated the percentage of children who were infected, several experts said in interviews.”

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October 31, 2021

CU Denver News: The Great Resignation & the Benefits of Quitting

CU Denver News: The Great Resignation & the Benefits of Quitting. “Outside a Burger King in Lincoln, Nebraska, employees put up a sign before leaving their posts. It read, ‘WE ALL QUIT’—and the photos quickly went viral. The employees who quit represent a major shift in U.S. employment, with increasing groups of people quitting, especially in industries like hospitality and health care. What has become known as “The Great Resignation” comes after more than 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. What exactly is happening with the country’s workforce?”

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