Heroes

Large pro- Palestine protest in Ottawa, Canada!

“You know what also died in Gaza? The Myth of Western Humanity and Democracy.”

A real "fake news" story: Sports Illustrated and other publications run stories produced by AI and fake the names of journalists and their headshots. And wait, there's more ... ctvnews.ca/business/sport…

Florida is planning to eliminate sociology as a course that can satisfy a general education requirement insidehighered.com/news/students/…

CNN reports that the IDF and settlers have killed over 450 Palestinians in the West Bank since the extreme right Netanyahu government came to power this year. At least 100 of them are children. Two more were slain today.

My candidate for headline of the year.

Nothing justifies killing over 6,000 children. Nothing. Not a damn thing.

Holy sh*t, this is AWESOME: Karen Smith, the new school board president for Central Bucks, PA, did her swearing in on a stack of banned books instead of a Bible. BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏

When you find out your work is being used to train AI. First reaction: they are stealing my work. Second reaction: a future AI may use it to overthrow capitalism. haveibeentrained.com

Why did Google decide to fake some of its Gemini AI demo? techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/goo…

I learned today that congregations of nuns across the United States own shares in gunmaker Smith & Wesson, major producer of the AR-15 mass murder weapon of choice nytimes.com/2023/12/07/us/…

The strange world of tech utopias truthdig.com/articles/effec…

Wonderful news! It was my honor to count Herb among my dear friends and colleagues. This archive is both a rich resource and a testimony to his immense contribution to media criticism and the political economy of communication.

Department of Banned Books: Orange school district pulls 673 books from teachers’ classroom shelves. The Orlando Sentinel, December 21, 2023

Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

Critical Communication: A Memoir Vincent Mosco All 272 pages and 20 photographs submitted to my publisher. Exhale.