A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies
"On Wednesday, Zhang opened her email to find a horrible shock: her bill for using Vercel, a web hosting company, would cost $96,280 for the last week."
"American media corps., probably: you know who we need running our news outlets this election year? Foreigners who convinced their own country to cripple itself with Brexit."
-W Clark
WHO confirms first fatal human case of bird flu A(H5N2)
"This was the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of bird flu reported globally and the first H5 virus infection in a person reported in Mexico."
"The victim had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals, WHO said."
When Palestinians are killed by Israel, they are often referred to by the media as “people” instead of Palestinians and the passive “died” is used instead of “killed.” They do the opposite in the case of the Israelis, referring to “conflict” instead of occupation and terming Israeli-squatter-settlements on Palestinian land “disputed” rather than “illegal” (as they are according to the Geneva Convention). #media#press#Reporting#Gaza#IsraelHamasWar#Palestine
NEW: Not one but TWO major US media outlets have been taken over by Brits who previously headed anti-trans culture war obsessed outlets in the US and UK.
Robert Winnett of the psychopathic Telegraph and Hugh Dougherty of disinformation-peddler NY Post will head the Washington Post and Daily Beast. #trans#news#LGBTQ#media#journalism
"My single greatest desire – the raison d'être for the work I’ve done here on Press Watch for the last four and a half years – has been for the news industry to recognize that it desperately needs a reset. Specifically: that it has failed to properly adjust to radical and asymmetric polarization of our political and media environment."
"The buy now pay later company has also cut external marketing agency expenses by 25% and "removed the need for stock imagery" by instead using AI image generators like Midjourney, OpenAI's DALL-E, and Adobe's Firefly, Siemiatkowski added.""
"Other commenters remarked that the AI-generated images looked bad in their opinion, with one saying they "looked like shit.""