Perhaps This Can Be The Needed Incentive To Get Us To Really Start Questioning,,,

...The overall efficacy of the Commoditization of Everything.

THE ONLY SEX ED THEY HAVE
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn

9 diggs The New York Times Sex

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it's shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?

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GIVE US A HAND?

The Body Trade

8 diggs Reuters Crime

Body parts from American donors have been exported to at least 45 countries, and thousands of parts are sent abroad annually.

Human eggs grown to full maturity in a lab for first time

SCIENCE’S PIRATE QUEEN


[Post Note: Let us first acknowledge the fact that there will be the opportunity for money to be made, with this new face-swap tech, in whatever way, is perhaps the biggest part of why this new tech could be so pernicious. J.V.]

WE'RE IN TOO DEEP

Everything You Need To Know About The Face-Swap Technology That's Sweeping The Internet (And Getting Banned Everywhere)

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Sites like Reddit and Pornhub have made moves to ban pornographic deepfakes in recent days, but it's never been easier for anyone with an internet connection to make disturbingly real-looking fake porn.

[Post Note: Here is another example of wanting to get out from under the old "institutionalized" notions of how we go about doing something so basic as making sure our neighbors are informed about important things; whether that be in the context of "knowing how" or just "knowing" in its most fundamental sense, which is certainly a big part of what teaching is. And the interesting there here is that the money part still being included, in this example, is more afterthought than primary concern. So much so you have to wonder why it is included at all, were it not for the fact that the reality of the larger system we all exist in demands it whether it we like that fact or not. But the simple fact of the matter is that we don't have to continue being strung up by that old system if we do not want to be. J.V.]

After School Special


[Post Note: When I see the author of the Nautilus article linked just below here mention the "institutionalization" of science I can't help but think that this also includes the fact that, it too, has suffered significantly under the auspices of "The Commoditization of Everything." And not only just because of what it might do to corrupt things on the front end of getting papers, and research results, published, but also on the practical ability of various institutions to do checking research of their own; precisely because we have to do this within a cost based, as opposed to an effort based, form of economic operation. After all, as the article states, we're now talking about quite mind boggling amounts of these sorts of things that ought to be checked. J.V.]

We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated