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I spent hours waiting to find out what an NFT looks like IRL

The Verge

I skipped out on most of the week’s programming but felt compelled to find out what it meant to see the so-called “authorized” debut of a work that I have already seen many, many times online and can download in 21,069 x 21,069 resolution whenever I’d like (the file is a browser-breaking 319MB large). He couldn’t get the app to work either.

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What a damning civil rights audit missed about Facebook

The Verge

It’s clear from the audit that Facebook has taken civil rights much more seriously over the past two years than it ever has before, in ways that can be observed throughout the company; it’s also clear that the authors believe that a series of recent policy decisions has significantly undermined progress to date.

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Turning off political ads on Facebook could have unpredictable consequences

The Verge

Jacob Knutson / Axios ). Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge ). That changes the way the incident is interpreted,” this author writes. Trending up : Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin are donating $120 million to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Governing. ? Nicole Wetsman / The Verge ).