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Man Arrested in St. Petersburg for Holding Up Sign of a Cartoon Character's Tag Line, "Let's All Get Along!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sMeR8hBmw There's a lovely and popular Russian cartoon series called Kot Leopold, which means Leopold the Cat. To quote the accurate Wikipedia summary, Leopold the Cat (Russian: Кот Леопольд, Kot Leopold) is a Soviet/Russian animated short film series about a good-natured and prudent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow…

Reason · Mar 23, 2023

Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’

The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023

Shou Chew: How a Facebook intern became the boss of TikTok

Despite his being head of the world’s most popular app, the enigmatic CEO’s Wikipedia page is just six sentences long

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

Mary Wollstonecraft: an introduction to the mother of first-wave feminism

Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years.

The Conversation · Mar 7, 2023

Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?

The decade-long mission to broaden participation on the site has yielded results - but Alys Key examines why progress is still slow.

Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2023

‘The internet’s sewer’: why Turkey blocked its most popular social site

Chaotic free speech on Ekşi Sözlük finally proved too much after devastating earthquakes hit country

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

The humble Glasgow building that was named as Wikipedia's one millionth article

We've always known Glasgow's a one-in-a-million kind of place, but it was nice to see this confirmed when Wikipedia announced its one millionth article way back in 2006.

Glasgow Live · Feb 28, 2023

'Sockpuppets' created puffery about Adani, says Wikipedia

NEW DELHI: For more than a decade, sockpuppets - some of them being company employees - created 'puffery' around tycoon Gautam Adani, his family and the apples-to-airport group he helmed by adding non-neutral material and removing warnings from information on Wikipedia, the free internet-based encyclopedia has alleged.

The Times of India · Feb 21, 2023

Matty Healy under fire for podcast mocking Scots language and Japanese people

THE 1975 singer Matty Healy has provoked backlash from fans after a number of inflammatory remarks were made during a recent podcast.

The National (Scotland) · Feb 11, 2023

Seven times ChatGPT has been accidentally or genuinely funny

From dissing Google, to being unsure if a man who died in 1956 is still alive — the AI bot has been unwittingly entertaining

Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2023