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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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News from refugees

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about refugees, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 66 stories have been published about refugees which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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DPA International

DPA International

Around 540,000 people have left Lebanon for war-torn Syria, UN says

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DPA International

DPA International

Egypt's parliament approves controversial asylum law

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torontosun

torontosun

Report finds 1 in 5 newcomers leave Canada within 25 years, calls for retention plan

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DPA International

DPA International

Faeser urges more EU 'solidarity' in hosting Ukraine refugees

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wusa9.com

wusa9.com

As evictions loom for Montgomery Co. refugee families, where are the aid agencies?

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The Canadian Press | Canada's Trusted News Leader

The Canadian Press | Canada's Trusted News Leader

They fled war in Sudan. Now, women in refugee camps say they’re being forced to have sex to survive

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Telegraph

Telegraph

Britain must follow Trump and embrace mass deportations

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wusa9.com

Afghan refugee families face homelessness in Montgomery County

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The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times

Refugees from Ukraine's Sudzhansky district stage protest in Russia's Kursk

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BBC

BBC

Vale of Glamorgan: Ukrainian refugee homes branded eyesore by nearby residents

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افغانستان اینترنشنال

افغانستان اینترنشنال

Iran Stresses Mass Deportation of Undocumented Afghan Migrants by Year’s End

افغانستان اینترنشنال

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torontosun

torontosun

EDITORIAL: Time to enforce borderline sanity

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Yle News

Yle News

Ombudsman warns Finland's quota refugee plan would be discriminatory

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Global News

Global News

Canada’s reduced refugee targets ‘wise’ for housing stability: UNHCR - National | Globalnews.ca

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Telegraph

Telegraph

Kidnapped, trafficked and incarcerated: The unsettling death of a Rohingya child in India

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Guardian

Guardian

‘There is no alternative’: Israel’s ban on vital Unrwa services will be a catastrophe for Gaza

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ABC News

ABC News

Uganda struggles to feed more than 1.7 million refugees as international support dwindles

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Telegraph

Telegraph

Israel-Iran war latest: US attacks Israel for banning UN Palestinian refugee agency

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DPA International

DPA International

Israeli lawmakers pass bill restricting main aid provider in Gaza

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Salon

Salon

"Terrorists": Giuliani claims Palestinian toddlers are trained to kill Americans at Trump MSG rally

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