Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates

Santana Salmon (Caribbean National Weekly) reports that famed Trinidadian calypsonian Black Stalin, known for his lyrics against colonial oppression,… Calypsonian Black Stalin dies at 80

Make Sunsets is already attempting to earn revenue for geoengineering, a move likely to provoke widespread criticism. — Read on http://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta – Eyes on the Ties — Read on news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/

AIs can spit out work in the style of any artist they were trained on — eliminating the need for anyone to hire that artist again. — Read on http://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-21/artificial-intelligence-artists-stability-ai-digital-images

Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society

Google’s water use is soaring in The Dalles, records show, with two more data centers to come – oregonlive.com — Read on http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html

Inequality in annual earnings worsens in 2021: Top 1% of earners get a larger share of the earnings pie while the bottom 90% lose ground | Economic Policy Institute — Read on http://www.epi.org/publication/inequality-2021-ssa-data/

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, said weapons being used for the war in Ukraine and Russia were filtering into the Lake Chad and Sahel regions. — Read on punchng.com/russia-ukraine-war-weapons-coming-into-lake-chad-buhari/

Our first salary and jobs survey in three years found little improvement despite stated industry-wide efforts to diversify staff and narrow the gender pay gap. — Read on http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91157-the-pw-publishing-industry-salary-survey-2022.html

The US Senate has passed the so-called Bolivar Act whereby no business may be conducted with the Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro. — Read on en.mercopress.com/2022/12/19/us-congress-passes-bolivar-act-banning-deals-with-maduro-s-gov-t