What we know about Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’

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Facebook’s “Supreme Court” is starting to take shape. 

More than six months after Mark Zuckerberg revealed his plan to create an “independent body” to review controversial content decisions, Facebook says it has made fresh progress on the effort. 

The company has spent the last several months hosting discussions and reviewing public feedback on its plans. On Thursday, the company published a 44-page paper that delves into those discussions and how it’s thinking about the crucial decisions it faces. 

It’s a long and complex process, but it’s one that could dramatically impact some of Facebook’s most consequential decisions. Here’s what we know about it so far. Read more…

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Gorgeous short film turns out to be an ad for the most unexpected brand

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Once again, brands have gone Too Far. 

A beautifully shot, colored, and edited short film about growing up and finding yourself turned out to be an ad, and Twitter is losing it. 

The short starts with a bathtub home birth scene, and follows its subject through his childhood crush, first kiss, angsty adolescence, and journey of self-discovery through rice paddies in Asia. When he finally returns home to move out of his parents’ house and start work, he stops by somewhere you’d never expect. 

“Every day, life asks you the same question,” a voiceover says over swelling music. “What are you gonna try today?” Read more…

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Apple’s design chief Jony Ive is leaving the company

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One of Apple’s most important executives is leaving the company.

Chief Design Officer Jony Ive, one of Apple’s longest-serving and most influential executives, is leaving the company to start his own design firm, Apple announced. 

Ive, who Apple founder Steve Jobs once referred to as  his “spiritual partner,” is known for designing some of Apple’s most iconic products, including the iPhone and iPod. He also worked closely on Apple’s newly opened “spaceship” campus in Cupertino. 

Ive will continue to work with Apple through his new company, though it’s not clear what projects he’ll work on.

“Apple will continue to benefit from Jony’s talents by working directly with him on exclusive projects, and through the ongoing work of the brilliant and passionate design team he has built,” CEO Tim Cook said in a statement released by Apple. Read more…

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‘One Day at a Time’ has been rescued from cancelation

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Things are finally looking good, fellow One Day at a Time enthusiasts. Netflix’s brilliant but canceled sitcom has found new life in cable network Pop TV, where it will now air its fourth season sometime next year. 

Show creator Gloria Calderón Kellett announced the news via Twitter. 

WE’RE BACK!
Thanks to every fan who made #saveodaat trend worldwide, ONE DAY AT A TIME is heading to POP TV & we couldn’t be more excited! We have many more stories to tell about & we can’t wait to share them with you! Thank you @sptv & @PopTV! #moreodaat https://t.co/4grfsn9RA3 pic.twitter.com/oPsvXL7DC5

— Gloria Calderón Kellett (@everythingloria) June 27, 2019 Read more…

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Dad plays saxophone for an audience of cows after learning to play on YouTube

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Nothing mooves people or cows more than the sound of a saxophone solo.

Twitter user @erinmherrmann’s father took his saxophone to a field near his house on Tuesday to try out some tunes he’d been practicing. While some musicians prefer a human audience, this particular dad was able to attract an attentive audience of cows. 

Watch this cow crowd move in to hear the music.

my parents are such goofs they drove out to the backroads so my dad could play the cows the songs he’s been learning on the saxophone pt.1 pic.twitter.com/IHzgxtvo0N

— Erin Herrmann (@erinmherrmann) June 26, 2019

Frankly, the best part of this concert is the neighbor who shouts “tequila” at the end. Read more…

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‘History repeats itself’: LGBTQ elders discuss how Stonewall impacted their organizing during the AIDS crisis

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Just 10 years after the Stonewall Riots that started the gay liberation movement, the AIDS epidemic hit the U.S. From 1981-1994, over 400,000 people were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With the virus disproportionately impacting the LGBTQ community, many of the Stonewall survivors were lost, along with first hand history of the historic riots.  Read more…

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Cory Booker’s peeved reaction to Beto speaking Spanish at the debate is an instant meme

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Ever felt threatened by someone else’s fancy language skills?

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker seemed to feel just that during the Democratic Debate on Wednesday night, when rival candidate Beto O’Rourke flexed his Spanish skills first.

When Beto was asked if he would support a higher tax rate for top earners, he responded by stating that the economy needed to “work for everyone.” Beto then switched mid-answer to Spanish, and Booker was caught glaring in his wake.

Booker, of course, can also speak SpanishHe made his pitch to voters when he called into Univision’s Despierta América when he announced his candidacy back in February. Read more…

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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is ‘evaluating’ deepfake policy

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Facebook may soon have new rules for “deepfakes.” 

That’s according to Mark Zuckerberg, who said Wednesday that the company is currently discussing specific policies that would police deepfakes, a term that refers to videos that have been realistically manipulated using artificial intelligence.

The issue was recently thrust into the spotlight after a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi went viral on the platform. The video, which experts said had been slowed down, made the Speaker of the House’s speech sound slurred as if she were drunk. Facebook’s fact checkers eventually marked the video as false, but it had already spread widely before Facebook down-ranked it in users’ News Feeds. Read more…

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Why HBO’s ‘True Justice’ almost didn’t get made

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For more than thirty years, Bryan Stevenson has worked to bring justice to the justice system. Now, his fight is coming to HBO.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, a new documentary from HBO and Kunhardt Films, chronicles the ongoing efforts of the Equal Justice Initiative, founded by Stevenson, to bring impartiality and equality to the American criminal justice system. 

A public interest lawyer in Montgomery, Alabama, Stevenson is a prolific figure in social justice and legal reform, holding 35 honorary doctorates from institutions all across the country and the American Bar Association Medal. Since starting the EJI in 1989, Stevenson and his staff have won dozens of cases involving wrongly convicted and unfairly sentenced defendants, including reversals and relief for 135 people on death row. Read more…

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