[The summer of the flying lawsuits, and more dystopian drama]
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_ The summer of the flying lawsuits, and more dystopian drama _
Jack Kirby's opinion. Credit, Dylan Horrocks
* The _Marion County Record_ Case
* X Runs Ads on Fascist Sites
* Universal Service Fund in Trouble
* Big Tech’s Ban on News for Canada
* The Dark Side of Comics
* Hollywood’s Union History
* A New Turing Test for AI
* Radio and Organizing
* Lawsuits Are in Season
* Authors Demand AI Compensation
THE _MARION COUNTY RECORD_ CASE
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By Sherman Smith
Kansas Reflector
_Marion County Record_ staff worked through the night to publish the
paper’s weekly edition as scheduled Wednesday, days after police
raided the newsroom and confiscated computers, cellphones and other
items. Authorities returned property taken by police but said they
would continue to investigate whether a reporter had committed a crime
by verifying information from a confidential source.
X RUNS ADS ON FASCIST SITES
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By Eric Hananoki
Media Matters
X (formerly known as Twitter) has placed ads on a verified pro-Adolf
Hitler account that encourages antisemitic harassment. Since Elon
Musk took over the company, X has placed ads for numerous brands
directly on Holocaust denial, white nationalist,
and neo-Nazi accounts. Ads have also appeared next to content from
the accounts of extremists that have been restored under Musk.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND IN TROUBLE
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By John Hendel
Politico
The Universal Service Fund — a federal subsidy pool collected
monthly from American telephone customers — faces the biggest crisis
of its existence.
BIG TECH’S BAN ON NEWS FOR CANADA
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By Andy Miah
The Conversation
Canada recently passed a law that will require digital media
companies to compensate news organisations for hosting their content
on sites such as Facebook and Instagram and via search engines such as
Google. In response, it is reported that Meta has begun to block news
stories from its sites Facebook and Instagram.
THE DARK SIDE OF COMICS
* #COMICSBROKEME
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By William Gatevackes, FilmBuffOnline
* MANGA AND ANIME BLUES
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By Carmin Maffea, Left Voice
HOLLYWOOD’S UNION HISTORY
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By Steven Wishnia
The Indypendent
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently
unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s. Hollywood’s
moguls and the Depression’s brutal economy gave workers a motive to
organize: In March 1933, the main movie studios announced a 50% pay
cut. The unions also benefited from a core of leftist militants.
A NEW TURING TEST FOR AI
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By Ben Ash Blum
Wired
If users view chatbots as overly human, they risk trusting them too
much, connecting to them too deeply, being disappointed and
hurt. What will it mean to recognize and respect whatever degree of
humanity is present in the intelligences that we ourselves create?
RADIO AND ORGANIZING
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By Marianne Dhenin
Yes!
It's true that far-right groups are relying on radio communications.
But radio’s connection to movement organizing has a much longer and
richer history. Even today, radio technologies have a vibrant life
in collective action, community organizing, mutual aid spaces, and
revolutionary movements.
LAWSUITS ARE IN SEASON
* AMAZON AND ANTITRUST
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By William Skipworth, Forbes
* NYT AND OPENAI
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By Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica
* GUN REFORM AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Rebecca Ruiz, Mashable
AUTHORS DEMAND AI COMPENSATION
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By Lucy Knight
The Guardian
Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000 others have signed an
open letter asking that permission is obtained and compensation given
when a writer’s work is used by AI.
* Kansas
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* Marion County Record
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* twitter
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* Elon Musk
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* Antisemitism
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* Universal Service Fund
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* Big Tech
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* Canada
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* news
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* Comic Books
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* anime
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* Japan
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* unions
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* Hollywood
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* artificial intelligence
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* radio
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* antitrust
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* Amazon
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* new york times
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* OpenAI
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* Gun Control
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