Woke

This week will be remembered for one of the most important events in a generation for the UK: a multimillion-pound spectacle of pageantry in which dignitaries from around the world gather in celebration before one figure is ultimately crowned. I know, I can’t believe Eurovision is here either.Europe – and also Australia for reasons no one really understands – now has all eyes on Liverpool as the UK hosts the song contest for the first time since thin eyebrows were on trend. Of course, we are not in this position due to…

Image via Disney Plus Disney’s reimagining of Peter Pan & Wendy is now available to stream on Disney Plus; however, one glance at the movie’s poster or trailer will tell you this is not like any other Peter Pan movie you’ve seen before.  The movie’s sheer level of deviation from its predecessors has caused a commotion among moviegoers (or just anyone who happens to spot a clip from the trailer) and thus has sparked a debate about whether the film is “woke.”  What are we talking about exactly? Well, Disney’s…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ fight with Disney continues after the company filed a lawsuit claiming DeSantis “orchestrated at every step” a campaign to punish Disney in ways that now threaten the company’s business.The Mississippi River is Drying Out | Extreme EarthDisney called DeSantis’ attempt to take over its theme park a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power” against the company, adding in the lawsuit that the governor’s decision to overtake the Board of Supervisors to oversee Walt Disney World’s…

Woke Alerts criticize different companies and organizations for adhering to climate pledges and sustainable actions, promoting diversity, or featuring LGBTQ+ stances. Image: Wachiwit (Shutterstock)Nothing gets the conservatives riled up quite like companies promoting progressive values. As a result, a conservative nonprofit named Consumers’ Research is providing “Woke Alerts” to notify you when your favorite company goes too woke.2,807 Lego Pieces Later…We Have The Mighty Bowser™ | io9 BuildsConsumers’ Research currently…

As a tech writer, there's always a degree of curiosity when it comes to workflows. Checking out new productivity apps and utilities can lead to fun new developments, shaving minutes or even hours off of the working week, and it pays to remain curious.The same can be said of tech, and after working on a Mac for years, I finally decided to try and spend a day working from an iPad. For context, I swapped my MacBook Pro for the M2 iPad Pro, and my workflows primarily revolve around writing into various online publishing…

“Woke,” a term singer Erykah Badu reinvigorated in the late aughts on the track “Master Teacher,” has since taken on “a life of its own,” and she believes it has become a put-down for Black people.“It doesn’t belong to us anymore,” the four-time Grammy Award winner said in an interview this week, reflecting on the evolution of the the word from a social-justice battle cry to a stereotype of dissent that is now weaponized as conservative invective.Speaking during “Mavericks With Ari Melber,” the “On & On” and…

Some banks are huge. Some are tiny. Some serve all possible kinds of customers, while others, like the recently kaput Silicon Valley Bank, carve out a niche, catering to venture capitalists and tech-related startups. But there’s another important category in the taxonomy of banks, according to a new right-wing narrative: the “woke bank.” As SVB shuttered last week and federal lawmakers began picking through the wreckage of the first major bank failure in more than a decade, some have decided the problem was…

Don’t worry, helpless insurance companies: the Texas Legislature is here to protect you from big, bad environmentalists. A Texas state senator said during a panel discussion last week at a conference put on by a prominent climate-denier think tank that the state legislature would focus on rolling out legislation this year to punish insurance companies trying to divest from fossil fuels. The big target is ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, a strategy companies can use to make ethical investments.During a panel…

According to rumors, Elon Musk is looking for people to help him create a sizable language model that will be less constrained and politically correct than OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Users have provided examples of how ChatGPT appears to be more biased towards the political left, and Twitter chief Elon Musk has criticized the AI chatbot for being “woke” (a common abuse of the term). One illustration: the bot will gladly create a favorable poem for former president Joseph Biden but will not do the same for former president Donald…

Joe Biden is poised to enact the first veto of his presidency. Photo: Evan Vucci (AP)President Joe Biden is expected to issue the first veto of his term to defend the right for retirement plan managers to direct client investments based on environmental and social considerations. The anticipated action follows the advancement of a Republican-backed resolution through the House and Senate this week aimed at targeting so-called “woke capitalism,” or environmental social governance (often abbreviated as ESG).ESG is nothing…