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Trumps Social Media App "The Truth" What are your thoughts on the truth? Do you think we will really get the truth?  Do you think the social media platform will stay just for news or turn into a toxic place like all the rest of them?  

 The It al ian  gym rat So who am I? I am CJ Vagnone, a 6 foot tall, 190 pound Italian from Cornelius North Carolina. I live on Lake Norman. I fully embrace the lake life and don't know what I would do with out it. Even with how awful  and fake 90% of my high school and the people who came out of it were, I wouldn’t change where I lived or my upbringing because of the lessons I learned at a young age. I think just  being on the water alone has something to do with not wanting to be anywhere else though apart for the life lessons. Lake Norman My hobbies include training my dog Asher who is a year and 5 month old german shepherd who lives on campus with me, and is my best friend on the planet. Street racing with my "friends" from back home in the Charlotte car scene, which actually sounds a lot cooler than it is because it typically just entails standing around in a cold parking lot for hours trying to lock in bet for a 9 second race or 2. Lastly, my main hobby is...

Is your relationship with technology healthy?         That's a question not enough people ask themselves day to day and should. One's relationship with tech and social media specifically can have an overall positive or negative effect on one's happiness, this is displayed in many studies in the recent years. Little over a year ago I deleted Snapchat, which was my most used app which I found myself extremely addicted to. Why did I do this you might ask? well for a whole bunch of reasons, but to start fake and toxic people surrounding me is not something I want as I grow and develop as a man.       Every day I was in contact with or snap chatting over 20 people, easily. Sharing useless pictures and a lot of the times not even words. I thought I had true relationships with these people except when tell them in person they wouldn't treat me the same or acted like the truly didn't know me. But how could this be we "snapped" every day. Came to real...

  Tech Topic: Emoticons The technology I selected, is emoticons presented by Aaron Jackson.  Emoticons are visual symbols or "glyphs"  used in technology-mediated written communication used to d epict a certain emotion and clarify tone.  The first emoticon,  created in 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman, are keyboard symbols, ":-)", arranged to represent a smiling face. Emoticons have evolved from keyboard symbols using punctuation to small graphics of animated faces   ( 😂🙄😩) , commonly referred to and hyphenated as "emojis".  These emojis help the message composer and  receivers avoid miscommunication, each face clarifying tone and meaning. If you are unsure of how your message may be interpreted, emojis allow for the sender to quickly add feeling, without having to change or rewrite their message to do so.  For example:  "what do you want  😒 "  "what do you want 😁 " "what do ...

 Age Of AI The film introduced AlphaGo, an AI program created by Google that plays the North Korean board game Go which was said to be effective as, if not more than, a human player (pictured below). After the computer beat the worlds best Go player the industry’s interest in utilizing AI shot through the roof. The film also explained the field of AI in itself, and our country’s competition in its advancements with China. It is terrifying to think of a country like China, a state which already violates their citizens' freedoms and rights to privacy, is surpassing our AI technology. Although there is an existing lack of accountability within our country’s tech industries, the big tech companies still can be held accountable by the people of the country and the government to a certain extent. By our markets boycotting these wrongdoings and using our freedom of speech, and our constitutional rights with lawsuits we can slightly protect ourselves more than other countries can like...

Silencing Anti-War Voices  The United States’ foreign policy and military decision making is influenced heavily and held accountable to the opinions of the governed. However, as the United States wages military operations around the globe, there are expressions of objection in the media. Mainstream media has widely disregarded the opposition to our foreign affairs, leaving alternative media sources, like ANTIWAR.COM, to report on the ethical, economic, and political issues involved in the United States’ war efforts.  As many large corporations benefit from a specific state of affairs or war in itself, these companies push propaganda and biased information that specifically align with their objectives. Vulnerably, the majority of Americans now receive their news and information about current events from social media platforms, which are controlled by these companies. Evil Facebook, for example, is notorious for making biased media available to influence popular opinion among th...