Latest articles Friday March 5, 2021

1. Featured Story: Amazon’s union campaign is succeeding where other unions failed

   Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are currently voting by mail on whether or not to form a union. Their campaign against one of the world's most powerful -- and most anti-union -- corporations has captured public imagination, and inspired young activists, in a way that hasn't happened in almost a century.

   By John Logan

1. Parler users are still trying to convince everyone they're leaving Twitter

   Since the U.S. election, Parler downloads have skyrocketed as millions of users have signed up to escape a perceived “anti-conservative” bias among mainstream social media platforms.

   By Aimee Pearcy

   From the Twitter desk

2. AI can now produce passable parody song lyrics

   The coronavirus pandemic has caused many outbursts of creativity, but few have the potential to be as meaningful as Mark O. Riedl’s lockdown project. The academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of interactive computing has spent the last several long months producing an artificial intelligence system that’s able to produce lyrics for parody songs, similar to those produced by Weird Al Yankovic.

   By Chris Stokel-Walker

   From the Culture desk