Dear Internet, NEWSROOM
Thank goodness for the internet. 2020 has been a challenging year: divisive politics, misinformation, deeply troubling acts of racial injustice, a global pandemic that kept us from seeing those we love. But the internet has helped keep us connected.
We're collecting stories from people around the world describing how the internet has kept them sane, hopeful, and connected this year. Want to contribute? Share your love letter to the internet with us using the hashtag #DearInternet on Twitter or Instagram. We’ll update this page regularly with our favorites.
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OPINIONS collected on INTERNET from Mozilla foundation
"I expected my first week of social distancing to feel, well, distant. But I’ve been more connected than ever. My inboxes are full of invitations to digital events — Zoom art classes, Skype book clubs, Periscope jam sessions. Strangers and subject-matter experts are sharing relevant and timely information about the virus on social media, and organizing ways to help struggling people and small businesses. On my feeds, trolls are few and far between, and misinformation is quickly being fact-checked.
"For many trans and gender-fabulous folks, the internet offered the possibility of connection, the first glimmer of community, and a vision of a future that could involve joy."
–Myrl Beam is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, Fellow in Oral History for the Tretter Trans Oral History Project and Co-host of Transcripts Podcast
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"This year has been challenging in so many ways, but the internet has given me a way to not only socialize but help me stay connected to those closest to me during the moments I missed the most. My father turned 80 this year and lives across the country in Florida, without the internet I would have missed in sharing the day with him."
- Amber Osborne, Product Marketing Manager - Mozilla Hubs
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"The beautiful thing about the internet and social media is that it has allowed us to accelerate the pace of organizing, of community building, of activism. Thinking back to 2014 in Ferguson and St. Louis, there's no way the protests would have spread across the country without the multiple platforms that allowed us to tell the truth in public, to find each other, and join together so quickly."
– DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist focused on issues of innovation, equity, and justice, host of the award-winning weekly podcast Pod Save The People, co-founder of Campaign Zero and a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter Movement
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"I talk about the web as a common good: a garden of gardens for all of us. It’s up to us to sow seeds of hope and progress in the corners where darkness and dismay fester."
– Hera Hussain is the founder and CEO of CHAYN, a global volunteer-run non-profit that creates intersectional resources on the web to address gender-based violence.
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"Internet, what would I do without you. With a single hashtag like #BlackTechTwitter I'm connected to a universe of folks across the industry who face the same unique challenges I do. Suddenly I'm not alone."
– Abadesi Osunsade is the VP Global Community and Belonging at Brandwatch
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"Three words: Weekly. Gamer. Nights. I never expected a regular cadence of play-time with friends over board games or traditional video games or a round or two of Quiplash. Lengthy, RPG-style board games that we could never complete in-person suddenly felt finishable when we took the experience online. Playing a video game on one screen while we chopped it up over video chat let us stay close while being physically far. Nothing will ever replace in-person interaction, but weOPINIONS collected on INTERNET from Mozilla foundationekly game time is a close runner-up."
– Xavier Harding is a content writer at Mozilla and host of The Markup's weekly show Meta on Instagram
**************************************************************************************I was 12 the first time I logged onto whatever was called the internet then. There were no websites to speak of, not really. No ecommerce, no banner ads, no data tracking, no spyware. iPhones hadn’t been invented yet; we called apps “programs”; and I had an EGA monitor on my PC (a whole 16 colors of range). But the first time I telnetted into a chatroom about raves, made new friends in Australia, or downloaded files to load into a music tracker, I felt the same elation that I feel now. This force, propelled by people, connected by copper and light, letting us make new connections. Connections we need now more than ever.
-Joshua Topolsky is the Editor-in-chief of Input. He's also the founder of The Outline. Previously he was the Chief Digital Content Officer at Bloomberg, the co-founder of The Verge and co-creator of Vox Media, and Editor-in-chief of Engadget. This quote is from his article "Thank God For The Internet"
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26/11/2020 TODAYS NEWS HEADLINES
HeadLines 26.11.2020#459, Thursday
1. COVID-19:
-New guidelines for funerals in Kerala, kin can now see victim's face.
-Education Department instructs teachers of classes 10, +2 to return to schools from Dec 17.
-India's COVID-19 caseload goes past 92 lakh; no. of active cases increases by 6,079.
-World agonises over new COVID curbs as infections approach 60 million.
2. Governor signs new ordinance; Kerala Police Act amendment annulled .
3. Lijo Jose Pellissery’s ‘Jallikattu’ is India’s entry for the foreign language film Oscar category.
4. Farm laws: Hundreds of farmers set out for Delhi from Ambala.
5. Ahmed Patel: Congress’ chief troubleshooter and master strategist is no more.
6. China slams India’s ban on 43 more apps.
7. Nationwide strike today, Unions expect 25cr workers to participate.
8. India approves merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank to Singapore's DBS .
9. Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, dies aged 60.
10. Warnings in US as millions travel for Thanksgiving.
11. President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and US can return to time before Trump.
Headlines Vocab
1. agonise
/'æɡənaɪz/
യാതന അനുഭവിക്കുക
spend a long time thinking and worrying about a difficult situation or problem
"I spent days agonising over whether to take the job or not."
2. annull
/əˈnʌl/
അസാധുവാക്കുക
state officially that something is not legally recognized
"Their marriage was annulled after just six months."
3. troubleshooter
/ˈtrʌblʃuːtə(r)/
പ്രശ്നപരിഹാരകൻ
a person who helps to solve problems in a company or an organization
4. DBS
DBS Bank Ltd is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Marina Bay, Singapore.
Headlines taken from:-
Hindustan Times, Manorama, Matrubhoomi,TNIE, The Hindu, PTI, Reuters, BBC, Al Jzeera,The Guardian
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=192188339070978&id=109209820702164
Headlines Vocab by Lalji Daniel
Organised and Consolidated by Nishad Abdulkareem
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