> Social media giant Telegram, a platform long regarded for its hands-off approach to content moderation, announced on 30 December that it is blocking access within the EU to a number of Russian state-owned media, citing a need to comply with EU regulations such as the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The post details Google’s lax enforcement of their policies in Chrome Web Store, resulting in a flood of spam submissions, add-ons “legitimately” stealing users’ data and outright malicious extensions not being addressed. At this point Chrome Web Store is a very dangerous mess for users.
Once a powerful Russian oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky has been tangled in legal disputes, mounting debts, and a bitter divorce. He's also drawn FBI scrutiny for ties to a former FBI agent and an ex-Russian diplomat, both of whom have been charged with criminal felonies related to another oligarch.
> Once a powerful Russian oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky has been tangled in legal disputes, mounting debts, and a bitter divorce. He's also drawn FBI scrutiny for ties to a former FBI agent and an ex-Russian diplomat, both of whom have been charged with criminal felonies related to another oligarch.
Restrictions meant to protect national security, allow for innovative use by trusted partners, officials say
> The Biden administration announced Monday new restrictions on the export of the most advanced artificial intelligence chips and proprietary parameters used to govern the interactions of users with AI systems.
Through a legal procedure, adult entertainment company FANZA 'confiscated' the missav.com domain, as well as thisav.com.
> With billions of annual visits, MissAV ranks among the 60 most-visited websites on the internet. The porn site mostly caters to an Asian audience where rightsholders see the 'pirate' site as a major threat to their business. Through a legal procedure, adult entertainment company FANZA 'confiscated' the MissAV.com domain, as well as ThisAV.com. However, MissAV swiftly bounced back on a new domain.
This study examined the connections between social media use and behaviors, COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs, and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in 809 emerging and middle-aged adults. Emerging adults reported more overall social media use, active and passive social media behaviors, and use of most plat...
> Emerging adults reported more frequent social media use, more active and passive social media behaviors, and lower vaccine uptake compared to middle-aged adults. While stronger COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs were linked to lower vaccine uptake across all participants, this relationship was unexpectedly stronger for individuals with less social media use and behaviors, potentially reflecting influences from alternative information sources. Additionally, active social media behaviors were associated with stronger COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs but not with vaccine uptake.
Higher winds threaten to spread Los Angeles wildfires, with California governor saying natural disaster could be costliest in US history
In 2016, some wondered if Donald Trump’s first-term cabinet picks would temper his worst impulses. Such questions seem laughably naive today.
A central question within contemporary debates about the structure of self-love concerns the place and status of the other. Is self-love identical to, or at least vulnerable to, the accusation of self-absorption and narcissism? Whereas contemporary critiques of self-love argue self-love is in princi...
Abstract
: A central question within contemporary debates about the structure of self-love concerns the place and status of the other. Is self-love identical to, or at least vulnerable to, the accusation of self-absorption and narcissism? Whereas contemporary critiques of self-love argue self-love is in principle impossible, the present essay suggests that self-love can be integrated with the love of the other at an a priori level. This material a priori, distinct from the Kantian formal a priori, entails resources such as commitment to myself, to the other, and to us as relational unit, as well as to the enforcement of boundaries that protects against acts of injury and abuse instigated against that relational unit; I suggest such resources overcome the charge of narcissism levelled at the very idea of self-love. Prior to that, a brief contextual discussion of key moves about philosophical anthropology, focused on the concept of the monad in Leibniz, Husserl and its extreme repudiation in Jean-Luc Marion, is to be addressed. Finally I assess the intimate relationship between self-love and the love of the other inspired in large part by Augustine’s anthropology.
Keywords
phenomenology; love; narcissism; the other; the a priori; Marion; Augustine; Kant
Today, President Biden spoke with His Holiness Pope Francis and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. The
Anthony Honore was accustomed to seeing brush fires far up in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena during yearly dry seasons. But last Tuesday night’s blaze was different. Fueled by Santa Ana winds of up to 100 miles per hour and unusually bone-dry vegetation in what is typically a moist time o...
The Eaton Fire northeast of downtown Los Angeles and the Palisades Fire to the west on the Pacific Coast Highway have destroyed 12,000 homes and other structures, with 11 deaths now attributed to the conflagrations.
For Viktor Orbán, the basis for granting asylum to fugitive Polish politician Marcin Romanowski was a mere four-page pamphlet. We have found this document: it has no author but heavily cites a platform run by the Polish ultra-conservative Ordo Iuris Institute.
What was once a detention centre for juveniles and women with children, Detention Centre No. 2, or SIZO-2, in Taganrog—a short drive from the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol—ha...
Taganrog, a city of 245,000 on Russia’s southern coast near the Ukrainian border, has become notorious as a hub for captured Ukrainians. Its SIZO-2 is now infamous for prolonged beatings and torture.
This is the story of the Taganrog torture facility.
Calls to formally recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity increase amidst growing edicts targeting the freedoms of women and girls by the Taliban
> The Dugway sheep incident, happened during March 1968 it has been connected to United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs in Dugway Proving Ground in Utah....
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said preventing girls from receiving an education is “tantamount to denying their voice” as he opened a major Muslim-led summit on the subject that remains sensitive in the Islamic world.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers have shunned a major international conference on girls’ education in the Muslim world.
This article examines whether social media users can validly consent to their own use of social media. It argues that, whether or not social media use is analogous to public health interventions, there is an obligation to provide users with information about risks and benefits, and absent that provi...
By Dana Drugmand As fires rage through southern California, the costs of extreme weather events linked to climate change are forecast to keep climbing – adding fuel to growing efforts by some US states to make the oil and gas industry liable for helping foot the bill despite looming legal challenge...
As fires rage through southern California, the costs of extreme weather events linked to climate change are forecast to keep climbing – adding fuel to growing efforts by some US states to make the oil and gas industry liable for helping foot the bill despite looming legal challenges.
In 2019, scientists published a climate-friendly food plan. Can it work for most Americans?
