BRASÍLIA — For weeks, Jair Bolsonaro’s closest advisers had proposed alternatives. The former president of Brazil, serving 27 years in prison for attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss, was looking for a successor to lead the populist movement he created into this year’s presidential contest. Source link
The Human Rights Foundation has submitted a complaint to a United Nations body that reviews detention cases on behalf of Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, seeking a finding that his prolonged detention is arbitrary under international law. Gao, 69, was arrested in China in 2024 on “suspicion of slandering China’s heroes and martyrs,” a charge tied to his longstanding sculptural practice repurposing art historical icons to challenge official narratives and mythmaking. That year, more than 100 artworks were seized during a police raid on his studio in Sanhe City, China, including ones such as Miss Mao, Mao’s Guilt and The Execution of Christ, which critique the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarianism and censorship. Related Articles As the Human Rights Foundation noted in its April petition to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the three works were all created at least nine years before China’s 2021 law prohibiting “slandering” its “heroes” and “martyrs” was enacted. “Applying it retroactively to criminalize Zhen’s artwork shows the lengths to which the CCP is willing to go to silence dissent,” …
For more than two decades, digital businesses have relied on a simple assumption: When someone interacts with a website, that activity reflects a human making a conscious choice. Clicks are treated as signals of interest. Time on page is assumed to indicate engagement. Movement through a funnel is interpreted as intent. Entire growth strategies, marketing budgets, and product decisions have been built on this premise. Today, that assumption is quietly beginning to erode. As AI-powered tools increasingly interact with the web on behalf of users, many of the signals organizations depend on are becoming harder to interpret. The data itself is still accurate — pages are viewed, buttons are clicked, actions are recorded — but the meaning behind those actions is changing. This shift isn’t theoretical or limited to edge cases. It’s already influencing how leaders read dashboards, forecast demand, and evaluate performance. The challenge ahead isn’t stopping AI-driven interactions. It’s learning how to interpret digital behavior in a world where human and automated activity increasingly overlap. A changing assumption about web traffic For decades, …
Caller identity platform Truecaller recently launched a new feature that lets one person become an admin of a family group, get alerts about fraud calls received by other members, and even end a call on their behalf if they suspect a family member might get scammed. The company, which has over 450 million users, first launched the feature in December in a handful of countries like Sweden, Chile, Malaysia, and Kenya. Truecaller said that after seeing promising results, it decided to roll it out worldwide, including in India, the company’s biggest market. The feature is free, and users can create groups even if they are not on a paid Truecaller plan. Image Credits: Truecaller With this feature, the tech-savvy member of a family or friends group can become the admin of an up to five-member group. Once the other members join the group, the admin can get alerts about potentially fraudulent calls those members receive. If the admin believes that the call could harm the member, they can remotely end the call as well. While …
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View All posts by Kelly Jensen Yesterday, the state of Utah banned three books for all public school students, bringing the total number of books banned in the state to 22. Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah filed a lawsuit against the state on behalf of the Estate of Kurt Vonnegut, award-winning authors Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins, and Amy Reed, and two anonymous Utah public high school students. The lawsuit claims that by disregarding the literary value of age-appropriate literature and banning it, the state has denied citizens their First Amendment rights. “The right to read and the right to free speech are inseparable. The First Amendment protects our freedom to read, learn, and share ideas free from …
