“No”“We can’t do that”“It isn’t possible”“It can’t be done”“It will never happen” The above answers are the easy way out to any question. Saying ‘Yes’ is always more work, more demanding, requires more thinking and more energy. It isn’t surprising that you often hear ‘no’ or a variation of the negative replies listed above. The trick of course is not taking no for an answer and trying to come up with a reason to make it easier to say ‘yes’....
The phrase “OK Boomer” has become popular over the past two years as an all-purpose retort with which young people dismiss their elders for being “old-fashioned”. “OK Boomer” began as a meme in TikTok videos, but our research shows the catchphrase has become much more. The simple two-word phrase is used to express personal politics and at the same time consolidate an awareness of intergenerational politics, in which Gen Z are coming to see themselves as a cohort with shared interests....
Just over a year ago wediscussedon how “Robot journalists” (actually automated software designed to turn facts into readable copy) stood to threaten the jobs of writers in fields like sports reporting. It looks like the results are actually starting to become alarmingly good. NPR’sAll Things Consideredreports how writers at Gawker’s sports site Deadspinassumedthat a story written onGW Sportsabout a baseball game had been written by a robot due to its failure to mention that in the game, a player had pitched a perfect game in the NCAA for the first time in almost a decade – pretty big thing to miss....
Mobile phones and online technologies are frequently used byperpetrators of domestic and family violenceto coerce, control and restrict the freedoms of victims and survivors. Recent death reviews have found thatstalking by technologyand the use of fake social media identities are becoming more common elements in cases ofdomestic and family violence homicide. In Australia, there are two leading agencies working to reduce this kind of technology-enabled abuse:WESNETand theeSafety Commissioner. Both provide training for advocates and practitioners, as well as resources for victims and survivors....
Fraud has reached “epidemic” levels in the UK over the past 12 months, costing up to£190 billion a yearand constituting what the Royal United Services Institute has called a “national security threat” in need of an urgent institutional response. But it’s clear that the police are struggling to keep pace with fraudsters. A 2018Which?report found that an estimated 96% of fraud cases reported to Action Fraud go unsolved. And with scams seeminglyon the rise,54%of which involve the internet, the problem of online fraud appears to be getting worse....
