2021-11-29: News Headlines

TASS (2021-11-28). Sputnik may be slightly more effective against omicron variant — US expert. tass.com "Adenoviral vaccines in general trigger a broader immune response than mRNA vaccines. But the difference may be very small," the expert said…

_____ (2021-11-28). Tech Workers, Bigger Than Big Tech. popularresistance.org Tech companies are the new empires of today: Alphabet annual revenue surpassed Hungary's GDP, Facebook employs over 15000 content moderators around the world, and Microsoft has built datavcenters in nearly every corner of our planet. Yet we continue to be sold the myth that the workers of the tech industry, which spans every corner of the globe, have nothing to do with each other. | To hold these tech companies accountable, tech workers in the United States have begun to organize. "Help us be Alphabet's conscience", proclaimed the recently-formed Alphabet Workers Union, a minority union composed of full-time empl…

Elaine Meyer (2021-11-28). How Gen Z Is Fighting Back Against Big Tech. zcomm.org Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they're logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future…

Elaine Meyer (2021-11-28). Generation Z Is Forging Healthy Social Media Practices for the Benefit of All. truthout.org As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon found herself addicted, spending five hours a day on the apps, mostly Instagram. | "At an important developmental period in my life as a young female, as a young kid, in middle school, [I got] wound up in this world of likes, comments, very deeply quantifiable measures of my value, addictive algorithms, and the endless scroll," she says. | W…

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