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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium X, formerly Twitter, to collect biometric and employment data    X, formerly known as Twitter, will collect biometric data on its users, such as a photograph of their face, in an update to its privacy policy. People signed up to its subscription service, X Premium, can choose to provide a selfie and photo ID for verification. This would be to "recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job". Continued here Who was Dmitry Utkin, a key Wagner mercenary who died alongside Prigozhin?    The secretive war-hardened career-officer-turned-mercenary is said to have given the Wagner group its name. Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure whose call sign “Wagner” allegedly inspired the Russian private mercenary group’s name, died alongside Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash on Wednesday. Utkin, who served in the Russian military intelligence, is often cited as the founder of Wagner Group, but many analysts now say that rumour was simply a smokescreen for Prigozhin, who only recently acknowledged his leading role in the armed group. Continued here 'Depression Cooking Zine' Is a Reminder That Sometimes Eating Is an Accomplishment    Sonali Menezes, the artist behind the popular zine, wants to shift the conversation around mental health and self-care Sonali Menezes’s teeth flash in a brilliant smile as she says hello on Zoom after being briefly trapped in waiting room purgatory. Behind her I can see the edges of art of all kinds, creating a chaotic gallery: prints, paintings, and works in progress. Last fall, Menezes started working full-time as an artist and educator in her home city of Hamilton, Ontario. Menezes is a zine-maker, but multidisciplinary at her core: She’s also a printmaker, a painter, a videographer at times. Her work captures her experience as a member of the South Asian diaspora, whether she is showing us her hairy legs in a drawing or exploring her past self’s nascent relationship with anti-capitalism via zines and prints. She recently finished a painting in the course of her time at the Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence Program outside Toronto, Ontario. “I was staying at a painter’s house,” she says, so she felt inspired to paint, producing a striking portrait of her and her husband lying on the bed, bare legs tangled, cat sleeping beside them. Continued here

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