AnOther Wednesday March 12, 2025
While listening to trucker and folk musician ‘Long Haul Paul’ (Marhoefer) on his Over the Road podcast a few years back, photographer Pietro Lazzaris fell in love with the idea of a nomadic life, notes AnOther. In 2024 he hit the road himself, and the result is his series “Trucking – Today’s America as Seen From the Cab,” an intimate series chronicling this quintessentially American brotherhood. “Most of the people that do it, do it for love more than for need but perhaps it’s a bit of a mix of both,” Lazzaris says.
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Reuters Wednesday March 12, 2025
Britain's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, on Monday launched an investigation into how TikTok, Reddit and online image sharing website Imgur safeguard children's privacy, reports Reuters. John Edwards, the Information Commissioner, said it would look at whether TikTok's data collection practices could lead to children experiencing harms, such as data being leaked or spending "more time than is healthy" on the platform. TikTok told the BBC that its recommender systems operated under "strict and comprehensive measures that protect the privacy and safety of teens.”
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Semafor Wednesday March 12, 2025
Patrick Witty, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who left his role at National Geographic in 2017 after allegations of misconduct, has been hired as White House photographer, reports Semafor. Witty, who had also worked with The New York Times, Time and Wired, abruptly left Nat Geo after it launched an investigation into him over allegations of misconduct, including making inappropriate advances towards female coworkers. He denied many of the allegations at the time but apologized, notes Semafor. He now writes the Substack Field of View and has amassed a large following on Instagram.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 12, 2025
The cover of The Face magazine in July 1990 jump-started a profound cultural shift. Featuring a photo of a smiling, freckle-faced 16-year-old Kate Moss, the cover "captured a moment in Britain when
the nation's youth was coalescing around a burgeoning acid-house movement, with impromptu parties filling disused warehouses, aircraft hangars and fields across the country," noted the BBC
recently--an explosion of optimism and euphoria … Read the full Story >>
