• Yes, Anti Social Social Club Has Its Own Goyard Bags (EXCLUSIVE)

    Anti Social Social Club’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection features a first for the Los Angeles-based streetwear brand.Alongside Anti Social Social Club’s varied

  • What happens when we train our AI on social media?

    The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket.  But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea?  AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...

  • Strategies to Optimize Your Social Security Benefits

    To maximize what you can collect, it’s crucial to know when you can file, how delaying filing affects your checks and the income limit if you’re still working.

  • Stakeholders demand reforms in social interventions

    Since the COVID-19 pandemic, palliatives, often used by governments as a stop-gap measure to support the most vulnerable in society, are now becoming permanent fixtures in Nigeria’s economy, writes EDIDIONG IKPOTO In February, about seven people reportedly lost their lives in a stampede at the Nigeria Customs Service office in Yaba, Lagos, during the sale Read More

  • When Is The Social Security Trust Fund Running Out?

    When Is The Social Security Trust Fund Running Out? A social safety net is synonymous with a failsafe for many, but in the case of the U.S. Social Security system, additional action is needed to ensure it stays that way. The annual OASDI trustees report by the Social Security Administration, covering old-age, survivors and disability insurance, shows that under the present circumstances, the asset reserve dedicated to the benefit program could be depleted sooner rather than later. ...

  • Airchat Is the New Social Network That Talks to You

    Airchat is a brand-new social media network hoping to connect strangers directly using the power of their voice, coupled with an AI-generated text feed. The question is, though, does it work?

  • Truth Social plans to dabble in streaming

    Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. will be developing a live TV streaming platform, the operator of Truth Social said Tuesday.

  • Social Media Companies Are Having a Bad Moment

    Nick H. Penniman What if it were the start of a movement?

  • The Most Efficient Way to Minimize Social Inequality

    Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) A Washington Post columnist, Catherine Rampell, headlined on April 5th, “The Great Medicaid Purge was even worse than expected” and reported: It’s a tale of two countries: In some states, public officials are trying to make government work for their constituents. In others, they aren’t. This week marks one year […]

  • Pineville Social District Starts April 24th

    Pineville's social district will start tomorrow at noon. The district will be and ready to welcome guests with drinks in hand.

  • Unilever to scale back environmental and social pledges

    Environmental groups say bosses should ‘hang their heads in shame’ as firm bows to pressure from shareholders to cut costsUnilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should “hang their heads in shame”.The consumer goods company behind brands ranging from Dove beauty products to Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream was seen as perhaps the foremost proponent of corporate ethics – particularly under the tenure of its Dutch former boss Paul Polman. Continue...

  • Coalition talks again bogged down in social media disputes

    Talks on forming a new right-wing coalition government in the Netherlands continue to be dogged by social media posts, particularly by far-right leader Geert Wilders. On Thursday Wilders refused to withdraw a post he had placed about the VVD’s junior immigration minister Eric van der Burg, describing him instead as someone “who has turned the Netherlands into one big refugee centre” and a “scary little man”. Earlier Van der Burg had said during a parliamentary debate that the decision not