The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

The images in this comic book are “not of human authorship”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/22/23611278/midjourney-ai-copyright-office-kristina-kashtanova?source=Snapzu

Capitalism Makes Everyone Bend to Its Will, Rich and Poor Alike

In his new book Mute Compulsion, Søren Mau argues that to understand and end capitalism, we need to analyze how it not only subordinates the poor to the rich but in fact exerts economic power over everyone — including capitalists themselves.
Read more: https://jacobin.com/2023/02/soren-mau-mute-compulsion-marx-capital-economic-power-domination/?source=Snapzu

From TV to TikTok, young people are exposed to gambling promotions everywhere

We interviewed 11- to 17-year-olds and they told us gambling advertising is so pervasive in their lives, it’s become normalised.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/from-tv-to-tiktok-young-people-are-exposed-to-gambling-promotions-everywhere-200067?source=Snapzu

Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture

Kristoffer Reinman, a 32-year-old music producer and investor, was scrolling through Instagram last fall when he began to encounter violent videos — videos of people being shot and mutilated, posted by accounts he said he doesn’t follow.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/instageam-reels-violent-videos-memes/?source=Snapzu

China’s Pig High-Rises Are Horrifying. So Are America’s Factory Farms.

Every few months in recent years, Western news readers have been treated to a macabre tale: companies in China building massive multistory pig factory farms to feed the country’s appetite for pork. The agro-industrial phantasmagoria grows in scale with every iteration.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/170594/pork-hubei-smithfield-factory-farming?source=Snapzu

Cleanup workers who became ill after Deepwater Horizon oil spill are suing BP for compensation

The oil washed ashore every day, globs of tarlike ooze blighting sugar-white sand beaches. Rodney Boblitt’s job was to report it. A special agent for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, he was assigned to patrol 14 miles of Panhandle beaches on an all-terrain vehicle, alerting cleanup crews to new slicks from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cleanup-workers-who-became-ill-after-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-are-suing-bp-for-compensation?source=Snapzu

Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing

is asking cloud employees and partners to share their desks and alternate days with their desk mates starting next quarter, citing “real estate efficiency,” CNBC has learned. The new desk-sharing model will apply to Google Cloud’s five largest U.S. locations — Kirkland, Washington; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; and Sunnyvale, California — and is happening so the company “can continue to invest in Cloud’s growth,” according to an internal FAQ recently shared with cloud employees and viewed by CNBC. Some buildings will be vacated as a result, the document noted.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/22/google-asks-some-employees-to-share-desks-amid-office-downsizing.html?source=Snapzu