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Welcome to DoggyLand

At this point, I think it’s safe to say we all love Snoop - I mean Uncle Snoop! I particularly admire the fact that he’s not afraid to try out new stuff. I mean the mans released gospel and reggae albums, featured in Call of Duty and even has a cooking show with Martha Stewart and that’s not even half of it!

Big Snoop D-O-double G is back at it again and this time it’s an animated kid’s show called (you guessed it) DoggyLand!

He revealed this on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He wanted a way to better connect with his grandkids as they were watching too much Cocomelon while he was spending time with them. Then again its not news that the show is increasingly gaining a bad rap with parents, so yeah - he came up with DoggyLand (which he also stars in).

Meta AGAIN???

On the 26th of June 2024, Meta will be implementing significant changes to its privacy policy.

These changes particularly relate to AI and training data. These changes will allow Meta to use your data (posts, photos, etc) to train their AI models.

As a matter of fact, even if. you don’t use any Meta platforms, it can still scrape data such as photos of you if someone else posts them.

Pretty scary stuff yeah?

If you live in the EU or UK, there is some good-ish news. Meta has confirmed that it has put these plans on hold for users within the areas, because in typical EU fashion, the regulators aren’t having any of it. After receiving complaints from about 11 countries, both the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta’s lead regulator in the EU, and the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have requested that Meta pause its plans until it could satisfy concerns it had raised.

While there getting their act together, if you’re not about that life, you can of course opt-out. However, they’ve made it a bit of a faff to do. But I’ll walk you through it:

Firsttttt - Go to your profile Settings

Got it? - dope

Now scroll aaaaallll the way down till you see About and then tap on it. Keewwwlll. Now tap on Privacy Policy and you should see the um..privacy policy.

Now we’re looking out for some blue text that says “right to object“. When you find it, tap on it and follow the prompts and you should be all good.

However, If you don’t see it, theres an alternate way.

While you’re still on the Privacy Policy page, tap on the hamburger menu (the icon with three horizontal lines) at the top right of the page and tap Other policies and articles then tap How meta uses info for generative AI. Scroll all the way down and tap learn more and submit requests here and follow the prompts.

What are you doing Sam?

So a white man thought it was a good idea to ‘disguise‘ himself as a black man to ‘document racism in America’ and went on to write a whole book about it.

Last month, the writer, Sam Forster - a Canadian journalist tweeted:

His book - Seven Shoulders documents his experience hitch-hiking across America and in an article for the Daily Caller, he went into detail about his experience.

Inspired by John Howard Griffin’s 1961’s Black Like Me, in which John darkens his skin with an anti-vitiligo drug and embarks on a similar endeavour, Sam admits to participating in what he refers to as “journalistic blackface“. In his words: “….brown-colored foundation would be sufficient for me to achieve the necessary skin tone. The particular one I landed on was Maybelline’s “Mocha” shade — slightly darker than their “Coconut” product, but not quite as dark as “Java.” I figured it was best not to get too ambitious.”.

As expected, it was met with severe backlash for several obvious reasons and has gone on to delete the tweet. However the book is still available to purchase on Amazon.

Okay, Boeing. really need to tell us what’s actually going on…

NASA and Boeing engineers are now scrambling for a solution as two astronauts are now stranded in space due to a number of technical issues with Boeing's Starliner craft.

This is a big issue for Boeing as they’re still taking heat from several issues with their 737 Max commercial airliners and now this.

The astronauts who had been working on the International Space Station (ISS) were originally scheduled to return to Earth on the 13th of June, have now had their trip delayed for the third time as engineers troubleshoot the issue.

The return capsule is currently docked at the ISS while the engineers troubleshoot. Time is not on their side however as the capsule only has approximately 45 days of fuel remaining.

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That’s it for today gang. See you in the next one!

- Yemi 💥