Smithsonian National Museum of African Art delays LGBTQ Pride exhibit: “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art” was originally scheduled to coincide with the WorldPride celebration in Washington. The museum postponed it until next year, citing a funding shortfall. - "“This exhibition was on a very ambitious schedule to meet WorldPride and we did not have enough time to secure all the private sector funds we had hoped to due to shifts in the fundraising environment,” Mitchell wrote." [ed. note: I do not believe you]
America just surrendered to foreign lies: By shutting down this agency, we are allowing disinformation by our enemies to spread unchecked. - "When the Trump administration shut down Voice of America in March, it silenced one of the few sources of accurate information in countries without a free press. What’s worse is that American defenses against foreign disinformation are being eliminated as well. Not only is the United States no longer serving up the truth, it’s allowing our enemies to propagate false information around the world with no pushback.
...
"Until it was shut down, the Global Engagement Center had unique capabilities to counter these efforts. It was able to convene interagency meetings and work with military and intelligence experts to uncover — and then publicize — the propaganda machines behind these stories. No other office in the U.S. government had the combination of expertise, information and authority to defend against information warfare."
The MAHA-Friendly App That’s Driving Food Companies Crazy: Yuka and other apps are influencing shoppers’ purchasing habits; ‘There are a lot of opinions out there’ - "Yuka gives Tru drinks a score of 43 or 48 out of 100—'poor'—in part because they contain stevia and erythritol, sweeteners that Yuka says carry risks. [CEO of Tru, Jack] McNamara said he doesn’t fully agree with Yuka’s methodology, which deducts points for drinks that aren’t water, but he takes the app’s input seriously." [ed. note: there's nothing wrong with stevia]
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Self-styled prophets are claiming they have "awakened" chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT - "'We know from work on journaling that narrative expressive writing can have profound effects on people’s well-being and health, that making sense of the world is a fundamental human drive, and that creating stories about our lives that help our lives make sense is really key to living happy healthy lives,' Westgate says. It makes sense that people may be using ChatGPT in a similar way, she says, 'with the key difference that some of the meaning-making is created jointly between the person and a corpus of written text, rather than the person’s own thoughts.'"
No comments:
Post a Comment