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The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of — Vox
Amazon is testing paying rural mom-and-pop shops a per-package fee to deliver orders within a 10-mile radius to neighbors in Nebraska, Mississippi, and Alabama
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Gen Z does not dream of labor
A look at the burgeoning cottage industry devoted to teaching children and teens about Web3, including Crypto Kids Camp, which operates a $500 weeklong camp
How inheritance issues strike at the root of crypto's libertarian ethos, as disdain for institutions and lack of legal guidance leads to problems for inheritors
Meta says it has been developing a project called CAIRaoke, a self-supervised neural model used to power a voice assistant for Meta's AR/VR products
Map: See where nature is, in fact, healing – Vox
Following several game studio acquisitions, Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal faces a big regulatory hurdle with Lina Khan's antitrust-focused FTC
Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? – Vox
A year after the January 6 insurrection, how does America’s crisis end? – Vox
What to do if you test positive for Covid-19 this winter – Vox
Being single and living alone is incredibly expensive – Vox
Spotify Wrapped's cultural significance reveals how algorithms influence our self-conception and how we in turn perform for Spotify's construction of ourselves
Facebook made over 21 acquisitions in the past three years, per PitchBook, including at least four VR startups in 2021; sources say it paid $500M+ for Within
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics in its metaverse products
Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush
The nihilism of Neil Gorsuch
CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust
Lyme disease vaccine: the frustrating reason there isn’t one for humans – Vox
How homeownership can bring out the worst in people – Vox
Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime
From Macy’s to Ace Hardware, facial recognition is already everywhere
The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem
How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall’s complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"
Why biologists like Carl Bergstrom are warning that social media is a risk to humanity
Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
Google is testing a warning to users that it may not have reliable sources to show, on a small percentage of searches, usually on developing trending topics
NLRB expands its complaint against Google to add three more fired workers who say the company retaliated against them for protesting against its work with CBP
Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats
Hacker News · 12 months ago
Sources: Facebook plans to launch Bulletin, its Substack clone, at the end of June; it will live outside Facebook in part to evade Apple and Google's 30% fees
Study reveals the strange marketing of "loop" giveaways on Instagram, where lesser influencers get on "must follow" lists and are paid to post about giveaways
Techmeme · 12 months ago
Facebook and Apple are fighting over privacy: what that means to you – Vox
With its MGM acquisition, Amazon doesn't want to compete with streamers like Netflix but reduce Prime subscriber churn by providing enough blockbuster content
Techmeme · 12 months ago
Internal Amazon messages show that FTC pressure to act against sellers using fake-review schemes may have led to bans of sellers tied to electronics brand Mpow
Techmeme · 1 year ago
A host on "safety alerts" app Citizen falsely accused a man of arson in CA in a broadcast sent to ~860K users, offering $30K for info; Citizen admits mistake
Why Israel and Palestine are fighting in Gaza: They’re stuck in a cycle of conflict – Vox
Why are lumber prices skyrocketing? The lumber shortage and housing boom, explained. – Vox
US Covid-19 response: How stimulus checks, unemployment insurance, and tax credits sped up economic recovery – Vox
Apple will take a 30% cut of revenue generated through Podcasts Subscriptions, dropping to 15% after a year; pricing options start at 49 cents a month in the US
Sources: Facebook will announce a suite of audio products on Monday, including a Clubhouse-like app, a podcast discovery product connected to Spotify, and more
Some Instagram accounts, such as NextShark, increasingly document incidents of anti-Asian violence that some say spurs a relentless cycle of aggregated trauma
Techmeme · 1 year ago
The conservative movement is rejecting America
Sources: Amazon's recent tweets aimed at politicians came after Bezos told execs they were not pushing back enough on criticism that was inaccurate
Techmeme · 1 year ago
Bessemer, Alabama’s union battle against Amazon is a David and Goliath tale – Vox
Pinboard · 1 year ago
TikTok says most users will be unable to opt out of personalized ads starting April 15; users in the European Union will be exempted due to GDPR
Beyond stimulus: Gen Z’s dream of high-speed rail and Green New Deal infrastructure
You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data. Retail pharmacies are now giving out Covid-19 vaccines, and some of them are using it as an opportunity to profit off your information.
Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem
Pinboard · 1 year ago
More than a dozen current and ex-Amazon corporate employees say its Black staff often face direct and insidious bias that harms their careers and personal lives
Techmeme · 1 year ago