Climate: You should post on social media when you avoid air travel
Even more reasons we must mostly prohibit flying. It's Science.
AI, Media: Microsoft Start News is AI generated crap
MSFT Start, Yahoo News, etc, have degenerated into AI and content mill generated crap designed to sell eye balls to advertisers.
Instagram: Mostly video now
Gradually, Instagram is phasing out still photos. Here's the data.
Social: Combat disinformation via thinking
What a radical concept – so radical this just might work! “Instead of relying on regulation, we should be relying on building more robust social resilience,” said Vilas Dhar, president…
Doomerism: Doomscrolling
Doomscrolling is the constant checking of news, typically seeking out scary news that has a negativity bias. Doomscrolling leads to mental health problems.
Media: Much “journalism” writing to be replaced by AI?
G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics – Vox If you use Bing News or Yahoo News, you likely see a LOT of “stories” that are along the…
Instagram really is killing off still photos
Instagram is gradually eliminating still photos and adding 20% of posts as "suggested' - so you don't see those you follow.
Follow up: Trevor Jacob and his [faked] plane crash
The original stunt: Trevor Jacob and his plane crash – Coldstreams Skeptic As of May 2023, Trevor Jacob admits it was a faked stunt for a promotional opportunity. He also…
Security: Lily Collins Facebook hack garnering media coverage
The hack swipes 2FA authentication tokens from the user’s computer and then uses those to login to their FB account, change their password, change the account name to Lily Collins,…
Security: Details on one of the Lily Collins Facebook Hack Methods
So far, at least 3 Chrome extensions contained compromising code to do these attacks. Plus it looks like a FB ad network delivered add did a drive-by install of a…