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Clara Steitz

Microsoft's LinkedIn to Create Censored, China-Only App

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will create a new app called “InJobs” for the Chinese market, after it became embroiled in controversy by censoring the account of an Axios reporter for a profile containing “prohibited content” in the country. The new app will be a “standalone” app, not connected to the wider LinkedIn

Most Americans Feel Left Behind by the Economic Recovery

Over two-thirds of Americans think their personal financial situation is not improving or getting worse and nearly 60 percent say the economy is weak, a survey released Monday showed.

Russian Activist Imprisoned for Peaceful Environmental Protests

Yesterday, a court in the city of Kolomna, Russia sentenced Viacheslav Yegorov to 15 months in prison for repeatedly taking part in peaceful protests in 2018 against the “import” of trash from Moscow. It is ironic that this sentence came less than a week after the UN Human Rights Council

BEST OF OFFG: “Wikipedia Slashes Spanish Flu Death Rate”

Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays, or because they take on added significance in a ‘post-covid’ world. As early as February 2020, when Covid was still just “the coronavirus”

Uzbekistan: Opponents Barred from Presidential Ballot

(Berlin) – Uzbek authorities have ramped up restrictions on media freedoms and kept opposition candidates off the ballot for the presidential election scheduled for October 24, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. In releasing a question-and-answer document about the elections and human rights in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch expressed concern that

New Study Shows Disturbing Amounts of Plastic in Baby Poop

A recent study published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters showed there was more polyethylene terephthalate in the feces of infants than there was in adults.

The Benefits of Red Light and Near-Infrared Light Therapy

This article was previously published March 21, 2021, and has been updated with new information.

Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues

(Washington, DC) – Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried out in Israel and Palestine during the May 2021 hostilities. The company’s acknowledgment of errors and attempts to correct some of them are insufficient and do not address the

Burundi: Lawyer’s Conviction a Travesty of Justice

(Nairobi) – The decision in the Court of Appeal of Ngozi to uphold the conviction and five-year prison sentence for a lawyer who had been affiliated to a human rights group in Burundi was a travesty of justice, Human Rights Watch and five other international human rights groups said today. The

38 Things Narcissists Say to Trap You and Drive You Crazy

Of all the personality types, I believe the narcissist to be the most prevalent, but perhaps also the most devious.This makes them tricky to spot.

The Neural Correlates of Access Consciousness and Phenomenal Consciousness Seem to Coincide and Would Correspond to a Memory Center, an Activation Center and Eight Parallel Convergence Centers

An increasing number of authors suggest that the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) have no selective, executive, or metacognitive function.

Potentizing Modern Herbalism with Story and Myth

Po ́ten`tize v.t.– To render the latent power of (anything) available.For thousands of years, stories were the mortar that held together the past and the future.