taylorlorenz

taylorlorenz , 5 days ago to random

“COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise.” https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans

taylorlorenz , 7 days ago to random

“This reality continues to worsen as Democrats join with Republicans to stigmatize and mock masks, while themselves failing to wear them, even during surges brought on by new variants.” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/silence-from-prominent-left-outlets

taylorlorenz , 8 days ago to random

“Gen Z put Biden in office with our voices and with our platforms,” said Hassan Khadair, a content creator in Birmingham, Ala., with 6.3M followers on TikTok and 2.8M subscribers on YouTube.

This time around, Khadair said, “He has to earn that vote. We’re not just going to give it to him because we don’t want Trump to win. We did that once. We’re not doing it twice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/

taylorlorenz , 16 days ago to random

"Teenagers have reported seeing pornographic material more on X than on adult sites. Research from the UK children’s commissioner found that 41% of teenagers reported seeing pornography on X, versus 37% for dedicated adult sites." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/04/x-twitter-porn-policy-under-18-opt-in

taylorlorenz , 16 days ago to random

A former Meta engineer is speaking out against Meta’s bias in handling of content related to the attacks on Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian IG posts
https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-meta-engineer-sues-company-saying-he-was-fired-over-handling-gaza-content-2024-06-05/

taylorlorenz , 24 days ago to random

“For most millennials, the old material markers of midlife, like owning a home or spending 20-plus years at one job, are a nostalgic fantasy. Even as we negotiate gray hairs and a changing body, little has changed in our career, home, and money prospects.” https://www.thecut.com/article/millennials-midlife-crisis-money-job-security.html

taylorlorenz , 26 days ago to random

“We know that it’s up, & it’s up earlier”

“The more times you get COVID, the more likely Long Covid will develop," Hudson said. And ‘it does seem like people in their 30s & 40s are the ones who are more likely to get Long Covid" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-25/early-signs-of-rising-covid-in-california-as-new-flirt-subvariants-dominate

taylorlorenz , 28 days ago to random

How debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-sexual-violence-zaka-ca7905bf9520b1e646f86d72cdf03244

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

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taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"After 50 years of crime without punishment, in many ways the violent settlers and the state have become one" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/campus-gaza-protests-student-protesters-role-history

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“It explains why you get pathologized and called everything from a doomer to a snowflake for caring about anything but yourself” https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California.

Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the government gave more money to Lockheed Martin than the Department of Education https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"Crushing the symbols of human creativity to produce a homogenized branded slab is pretty much where the tech industry is at in 2024" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/08/apple-ipad-ad-tim-cook-backlash/

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“The point at which COVID proved it would continue to evade our vaccines was the point at which liberals (and many leftists) decided harming vulnerable people was ok, after all.” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

MrBeast is cutting ties with Night media and taking personal control of his business https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/youtube-star-mr-beast--management-company-night-media

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“The media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,” Piker said. “They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don’t treat these students as an organized entity at all.” https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Twitch streamers are providing real-time unfiltered coverage of the student protests in a way that challenges mainstream media narratives. https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. No arrests had been made in connection with the attack" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Even Elon is sick of her shit

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“‘Morning After the Revolution’ is an object lesson in irresponsible reporting.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/05/02/morning-after-revolution-nellie-bowles-review/

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“This CNN segment on Wednesday about the pro-Palestine student protest movement is one of the most jaw-dropping, poisonous pieces of propaganda I have ever seen on a U.S. news outlet.”
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/cnns-disgraceful-propaganda

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181107/college-protests-israel-gaza-media-coverage-shameful

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-hostage-deal-charges-ex-spokesman-of-families-forum/

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"It is incumbent upon lawmakers to seek the declassification and urgent publication of as much of the intelligence related to TikTok and its potential use as a tool by the Chinese government as possible. The public deserves more than hypotheticals, and eventually, a court will demand the specifics" https://www.techpolicy.press/the-us-government-must-show-its-cards-on-tiktok/

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Only someone who does not think critically about the function of police under capitalism would use the word ‘police’ or ‘cops’ for sick and disabled people” https://jacobscheier.substack.com/p/among-the-mask-police-why-expert?triedRedirect=true

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Stanford Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocates for mass COVID infection, rails against masking and who has cast doubt on the utility/safety of the mRNA COVD vaccines, just won an award with major prize money from one of the most powerful right-wing foundations in America. https://www.importantcontext.news/p/covid-contrarian-doctor-scores-big

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

"The WHO, rather than demonstrate humility and contrition in the face of a world-circling failure that sent us down an infection control dead-end, continues to double down on excusing itself." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-whos-claim-that-covid-wasnt-airborne

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

David Leonhardt is once again using his perch at the NYT to spread outright misinformation, now about TikTok. Here's a great debunking of the nonsense study Leonhardt is promoting, that the NYT wrote up despite the fact that it's easily disproven https://www.cato.org/blog/lies-damned-lies-statistics-misleading-study-compares-tiktok-instagram

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

Bodies were found with hands and feet tied “and there were signs of field executions. We do not know if they were buried alive or executed. Most of the bodies are decomposed.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/middleeast/khan-younis-nasser-hospital-mass-grave-intl/index.html

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to random

The 25 most-cited news organizations in the U.S. lost 75% of their total user engagement on Facebook and 58% of interactions on Instagram between 2022 and 2024.

"Where will people go for this information? Or will they just go without?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/21/social-media-trump-biden-politics-instagram-facebook/

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

“They found that, relative to patients who had fully recovered, those with Long Covid showed a pattern of immune system activation indicating inflammation of myeloid cells and activation of a family of immune system proteins called the complement system.” https://scitechdaily.com/blood-biomarkers-reveal-the-hidden-world-of-long-covid/

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

As someone who covers manufactured outrage campaigns for a living, journalists desperately need to learn how to properly cover these campaigns.

These grafs in NYT don’t give nearly enough context to who Chris Rufo is, or his agenda/track record. Quoting ppl like Rufo as neutral/honest actors is a huge mistake not only bc it launders their abusive, ideologically driven campaigns to mainstream liberals, but also bc it leaves readers less informed abt the motivations behind these attacks.

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

"The precipitous decline in traffic to conservative publications raises a larger and possibly unanswerable question: Did these operations ever really hold the political and cultural clout that critics ascribed to them at their peak?" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

NewsGuard, which rates news orgs for credibility and quality, has downgraded the NYT for the first time bc it so often falsely presents opinion pieces as news columns.

This is no surprise to anyone who's followed David Leonhardt and The Morning's deeply partisan coverage of C*vid, which has pushed dangerous health misinfo in effort to push a political agenda, or the paper's highly skewed coverage of trans issues https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nmem5n9p88hmdp5362lo5/NYTimes-update-for-O-Shea.pdf

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

In a newly released deposition, Elon Musk admits he used a burner account to tweet as his toddler https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

NYC's AI weapon scanners produce 85% false positives https://hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons-scanners-pilot-false-positives

taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

According to the lawsuit that X is funding, this is one of the political opinions expressed by the X user that was posted and allegedly resulted in them getting fired from their job

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taylorlorenz , 2 months ago to random

In one Instagram post, a trans person’s body is shown twisted on the ground while being beaten to death w stones, which have been replaced with the laughing emoji. The caption reads: “[trans flag] people are devils.”

When the post was reported for instigating violence, Meta declined to take action. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/27/meta-glaad-report-released/