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☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

The bill already passed the Senate and now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. “In removing Taney’s bust, I’m not asking that we would hold Taney to today’s moral standards,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Wednesday while advocating for the statue’s removal. Figures like Taney belong in history textbooks and classroom discussions, not in marbled bronze on public display of honor.”A similar effort in 2020 that passed the House aimed to remove Taney’s bust from the Capitol along with monuments honoring Confederates. That bill, however, was eventually stalled by Senate Republicans who argued that states should decide which statues they’d like to display in the Capitol. A statue of Taney was previously removed in 2017 from the grounds of the Maryland State House.

☆ There have only been 2 Black elected governors in US history, but the 2022 midterm elections could usher in unparalleled change
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

There have only been two Black elected governors in US history, but that could change on Tuesday. With the victory, Wilder became the first Black elected governor in the United States, generations after P.B.S. He said people brag about him as the first Black governor elected in America. However, this year, Black gubernatorial candidates weren't overly reliant on the party leadership to help them land the nominations in their respective states. At the end of the day, if that's what I accomplished, that's not enough," Moore told Insider.

☆ I’ve been following a woman around the internet. Turns out she was created by artificial intelligence.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Evan Ratliff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

Even in their first efforts, the GAN images were quickly on par with those made by any other, less intelligent software. You can find the results on the Generated Photos site, where you can filter by ethnicity, age, sex, eye color, and other attributes. Generated Photos' GANs tend to match conventional beauty standards, a product of the models that have been fed to the software. I'm not sure anyone would be surprised to find fake images accompanying testimonials on an Estonian bitcoin exchange or an online CBD seller. Are they real people deploying fake images, or fake people deploying fake images?

☆ Байден начал свое первое зарубежное турне с Великобритании
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-10 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Первое зарубежное турне Джо Байдена стартовало с Великобритании. Принимающей стороной стал премьер-министр Борис Джонсон, с которым Байден обменялся подарками в честь первой встречи. Премьер-министр Джонсон подарил Байдену фотографию фрески в рамке, на которой изображен американский аболиционист Фредерик Дуглас (Frederick Douglass), в знак уважения к движению Black Lives Matter. В свою очередь президент США подарил Джонсону новый велосипед и шлем как «жест дружбы и знак признания их общего интереса к велоспорту». «Джо Байден подарил велосипед американского производства и велосипедный шлем, изготовленный на заказ компанией Bilenky Cycle Works, небольшим семейным предприятием, расположенным в Филадельфии.

Persons: Frederick Douglass, Джо Байден, Борис Джонсон, Байден, Премьерминистр Джонсон, Фредерик Дуглас, Дуглас, Роберт Блэр, Мелиссой Хайтон, Джонсон, Кэрри Джонсон, Джилл Байден, Дафны дю Морье, Путин, Кэрри, Джилл Organizations: ABC Locations: Великобритания, Ирландия, США, Филадельфия, Пенсильвания, Белый дом, Корнуолл

When the enslaved population was first freed, the Freedman's Bank was established to provide a savings and wealth-building tool. Black bank customers lost millions in deposits. When Freedman's Bank closedA short nine years after opening, the Freedman's Bank closed in 1874. The Freedman's Bank collapse destroyed Black people's trust in financial systemsMy grandmother had a bank account. In short, in the African American community, the Freedman's Bank collapse is to finance what the Tuskegee experiments are to healthcare.

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