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Is Shane Dawson Coming Back to YouTube?Shane Dawson is taking the good with the bad. The vlogger posted his first YouTube video in more than a year on Thursday, Oct. 7. His latest series is titled "The Haunting of Shane Dawson," which will follow him and his partner, Ryland Adams, as they ghost hunt in their new home state of Colorado. Additionally, in the first video of the series, the YouTuber addressed his decision to take a step back from the spotlight after controversial clips featuring his use of blackface, the N-word and other offensive comments resurfaced last year. He spoke candidly to the camera, stating that he "wanted to leave the internet and I didn't want to be part" of the vlogging community. Dawson said, "I felt like it ruined my life." He explained that prior to the controversy, he'd already felt he had "learned a lot" and grown past the person in the controversial clips. "I think part of me was upset because I was like, I made so much growth and now I'm being canceled over things from the past," Dawson reflected, "and that's not me anymore." However, the controversy helped him realize he "can't focus on what other people think of me." So, while it was…

Censored over COVID-19 misinformation, St. Louis County to stop using YouTube by Oct. 19 A pamphlet about COVID-19 vaccines sits on a chair at the wall during a St. Louis County Council meeting held to discuss and vote on upholding a countywide mask mandate resolution at the Lawrence K. Roos County Government Building in Clayton on Friday, August 27, 2021. Photo by Daniel Shular, dshular@post-dispatch.com Daniel Shular, CLAYTON — YouTube soon won’t have worry about taking down St. Louis County Council meetings over people making false or unproven claims about COVID-19 and vaccines.After Oct. 19, all council meetings will be exclusively streamed to a new streaming platform, BoxCast.The County began looking for a new video host in August after YouTube temporarily censored at least four council meetings for violating guidelines barring COVID-19 misinformation.The meetings featured comments from protesters against mask and vaccine mandates, some of whom denied the existence of the coronavirus or alleged the vaccines are part of a government conspiracy. Speakers called the pandemic a “Big Pharma” conspiracy or “bioweapon activated by 5G” wireless technology.Switching to BoxCast will require the county pay $1,500 a year, said council policy director Chris Grahn-Howard. But that’s to pay for live closed-captioning…

by: Daisy Ruth Posted: Oct 7, 2021 / 06:43 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 7, 2021 / 06:43 PM EDT DUNEDIN, Fla. (WFLA) – Dunedin residents are lighting up the night with handmade art throughout neighborhood streets – and a dedicated Facebook group is helping everyone out. “Chandeliers of Dunedin” is a public Facebook group that was created on April 18 of this year. It has almost 2,000 members across the country. The concept of lawn chandeliers is branching out, with those in other Pinellas County locations – like Clearwater – posting their creations, as well as much farther north, including New York. Those involved in the group also post helpful tips, such as craft sales within the Dunedin area for folks to get supplies. Group members looking to go fully solar-powered are supported as well. The hobby is personal for many. Madison DiLoren Hutchinson began raising monarch butterflies during the coronavirus pandemic and “wanted to honor” the species with her chandelier theme. Courtesy: Madison DiLoren Hutchinson Brian Luna has a chandelier he has programmed to change color and design,  » Read More

Ireland said Thursday it would join an international agreement that sets taxes on profits for multinational corporations at a minimum rate of 15 percent. This is a major shift for the country that is the European headquarters for many large US pharmaceutical companies, as well as tech firms, including Google, Apple, and Facebook. An increase from Ireland’s current 12.5 percent to 15 percent may not seem that large by itself. The so-called Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Inclusive Framework agreement, outlined in July, is actually a two-pillar plan aimed at helping end tax avoidance and making international tax rules fairer and more transparent. The OECD has estimated that a 15 percent tax rate would generate some $150 billion in global tax revenue annually and would help to stabilize the international tax system. Ireland signed on to the deal ahead of a Friday meeting at the OECD among the 140 countries that have been negotiating its terms for several years. The plan calls for global companies to pay taxes in countries where their products or services are sold,  » Read More

Audrey Leighton Rogers was relieved that she launched her fall collection last week, and not on Monday. Rogers, a Barcelona-based clothing designer and vintage curator, gets 95% of the traffic to her site from Instagram. These days, her income is, she says, 100% dependent on the audience she has built over a decade on the app. And on Monday, when Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp experienced a global outage lasting nearly six hours, that audience disappeared. “That really puts you in a vulnerable position when you realize you’re so reliant on one social media,” she said the next night over the phone. “I was like, Wow, if this had happened like a week before, this really could have messed up a whole month of work. That’s scary.” Instagram and Facebook are home to countless small businesses, whose owners, like Rogers, depend on it for their income. The Monday outage could have been catastrophic for any of them, not just because of the loss of traffic, but because they don’t have access to their customers outside of the apps. Now, they’re faced with the knowledge that something as esoteric as a router configuration update—entirely out of their control—can derail their livelihoods. Perhaps…

This week, we loved your posts about inspiring industry professionals, cartoon robot chefs and cocktail contests. Hey, we can’t make this stuff up. (Plus, as journalists, that’s highly frowned upon.) Truth is indeed stranger/cooler than fiction sometimes. LinkedIn While many of us love a good before-and-after photo collage, John Toner took it to the next level during the 2020 Viva Fresh Clean Eating Challenge by the Texas International Produce Association. He was one of the featured participants who documented their progress during the six-month challenge and used it as a springboard for a total overhaul of his lifestyle. The premise is for produce industry members to “walk the talk” of eating healthy, and to make some positive long-lasting changes, whatever that means for each participant. Toner, vice president of conventions and industry collaborations for United Fresh Produce Association, is obviously going through a lot of change at work too, as his association merges with Produce Marketing Association. One year after he started his clean eating journey, Toner has shed a visibly significant amount of weight with several strategies, including exercise, healthy diet and sobriety for a full year, as he celebrated in another LinkedIn post. Toner’s blog posts during the…

By Rachel Rippetoe (October 7, 2021, 4:24 PM EDT) -- DLA Piper snagged a cybersecurity lawyer from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego to bolster the firm's regulatory and government affairs practice.Justine Phillips spent eight years at Sheppard Mullin working on "all things cyber and California employment," according to her LinkedIn profile. DLA Piper announced on Tuesday that she has joined the firm as a partner."As businesses rally to comply with evolving cyber laws and regulations, DLA Piper leverages information security technologies to truly understand their clients' systems and risk profile, so that companies can make informed decisions on how to proactively and reactively reduce cyber risk," Phillips... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS

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When you’re exploring a city — whether one you’re visiting on your travels or your own — there are a number of tools that can help you find out where to go, what to see and what to do, like Google Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor and others. But a startup called Welcome thinks that today’s set of tools could be smarter and more personalized to the individuals who use them. Its new app instead uses “real-time” technologies to make recommendations that take into account a user’s preferences as well as other details about their current context — like the weather, season, traffic and the popularity of the place at the current time of day — in order to provide a better-curated set of recommendations. The end result is meant to be a city guide that’s more like “a concierge in your pocket,” says Welcome co-founder Matthew Rosenberg. Image Credits: Welcome Rosenberg says he was inspired to build Welcome after traveling, pre-pandemic, with his then-girlfriend, now-wife, following the acquisition of his first company, a mobile video creation app called Cameo, by Vimeo. During this time, the couple explored parts of Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., which was an amazing experience he says,…

“The enemy rollout of the experimental drug has pushed many people into a corner – either take the experimental drug and die or be excluded from the controlled society that we call the United States,” says the blurb of an American-registered website, whose owners appear to be preparing themselves for a war. The experimental drug that the group “War Time Mind” is referring to is the COVID-19 vaccine, and as vaccine mandates are rolled out over the US, this group has been using the audio-only app Clubhouse to spread alarmist misinformation about what the vaccine does. They are one of many new communities to emerge in the last few months who are aligning anti-vax ideology with prepping – the preparations survivalists undertake in the event of climate emergencies, disruptions to political or economic order or, in their case, when they feel they are forced by their government to take the vaccine. While preppers existed long before the coronavirus pandemic, empty shelves on supermarkets and lockdowns galvanised many to follow online prepping communities for tips.  » Read More