Trevor Jacob and his plane crash
Trevor Jacob competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics on snowboard. Since then he appears to have made his living producing high risk “stunt” videos on Youtube, and possibly leading “adventure”…
Investigation: How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires
Watch the video at the link. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of…
China scans western web sites and social media as part of surveillance network
Including this blog: Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and the military are gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived…
Facebook introduces virtual groping
This is a very bad idea: A beta tester has claimed she was virtually “groped” in the metaverse VR platform Horizon Worlds from Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Meta…
People are losing interest in Instagram
The photo-sharing app has quietly rolled out a pop-up notice prompting users to “try a new account.” Can a fresh start keep people from losing interest in the platform? Source:…
Why you can never write bad reviews – and why user reviews are meaningless
Source: Granny, 63, and granddaughter, 6, are kicked out of hotel by POLICE after she gave bad review | Daily Mail Online She checked in to her hotel (Baymont Inn…