Experience is Going Extinct
A review of Christine Rosen's "The Extinction of Experience"As more of our daily experience goes mediated and buffered through screens, it’s important to wonder what we’re losing.
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No More TikTok for State Agencies in Texas
Tenuous US-China relations may prompt other state legislatures to follow in Abbott’s footstepsGovernor Greg Abbott of Texas called for a ban of TikTok from all state agencies this week. Agencies have until February 15th to accommodate to the policy, which entails removing the social media app from all devices used to carry out official Texas-related business. The new ruling will also involve restricting access to TikTok usage on personal devices in potentially “sensitive locations and meetings.” TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, Ltd., has been criticized for mining data from its American users. Since the Chinese government can demand data disclosures from businesses, Gov. Abbott thinks TikTok is an issue of state and national security: TikTok harvests significant amounts of data from a user’s device, including details about a user’s internet Read More ›