Photo of Children Using Taco Bell’s Wi-Fi To Do Homework Goes Viral

A harrowing photo has gone viral on social media showing two Salinas City, California Elementary School District students sitting outside of a local Taco Bell to capture Wi-Fi to attend their virtual classrooms.

The photo is heaping more attention to the digital divide‘s realities as schools continue with distance learning.

The district acknowledges concerns about internet access for students and told KION it provided an internet hotspot to the family of the two girls and will offer additional hotspots to families in the district.

“The digital divide is very real, and delays in receiving needed technology are a statewide concern, we are grateful the State is making technology a priority and look forward to receiving these hotspots in our District,” said Amy Ish, president of the board.

Once the photo went viral, the local community pulled together to resource Wi-Fi locations for those in need by creating and sharing hotspot maps and providing new areas as they become available via Twitter.

According to the United Nations, roughly half the world’s population—46%—is not connected to the internet. People in the least developed countries are at least connected; however, digital divides subsist in better-connected countries. The Pew Research Center says that one in five school-aged children in the United States doesn’t have computer access or high-speed internet at home. 

The race/class intersection is more profound when considering statistics with Latino communities like those in Salinas and around the country in the COVID age. 

Even before COVID-19 hit the U.S., a Pew Research Center study showed that 57% of Hispanic adults said they own either a desktop computer or laptop, compared to 82% of whites. Roughly 25% of Hispanics surveyed stated they had “smartphone-only” access to the internet. 

An April survey by SOMOS revealed nearly 40% of Latinos did not have broadband internet access at home; 32% did not have a computer.

Eva Longoria, an actress and active advocate for the Latino community, told CBS: “Outside of the crisis, the Latino community already suffers from inequity. The effects of these hardships are going to continue to produce exponentially. We’re going to have a lot of cleaning up to do.” 

*First Published: Aug 28, 2020, 7:48 am

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Jaden And Justin Bieber Reunite For Their Breezy Ballad, ‘Falling For You’

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Everyone remembers when Jaden — who went by his full name Jaden Smith at the time — and Justin Bieber shared their adorable Karate Kid collaboration, “Never Say Never,” a little over ten years ago. Well, the kids are all grown up and they’re back together as adults. Returning the favor a decade later, Jaden calls on Justin Bieber for their new track, “Falling For You,” off his newly-released CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3 album. A breezy and carefree track, Jaden and Justin are hopeless romantics on the song as they profess their love for their new partner over the song’s cheery production.

This actually isn’t their first time working together again since “Never Say Never.” Jaden features on Bieber’s Believe bonus track “Fairytale,” and he also made an appearance in Bieber and Ariana Grande’s star-studded “Stuck With U” video this year.

Out now, CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3 clocks in at 17 songs and finds another guest appearance from Raury. Speaking on the album after his “Cabin Fever” single, Jaden shared some insight on what his goals were on the project: “I’m bringing it inside and I’m making it more of a world that other people can participate in… It’s kind of bringing all my fans who have been with me from the beginning… and kind of updating them onto everything that’s been happening.”

As for Bieber, the song is his first release since his chart-topping single with Ariana Grande, “Stuck With U.” Soon after, Bieber shared a remix of Jack Harlow’s “What’s Poppin” with a verse of his own.

Listen to “Falling For You” above.

CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3 is out now via Roc Nation. Get it here.

Source: https://uproxx.com/music/jaden-justin-bieber-falling-for-you/

‘New Mutants’ Behind-the-Scenes Drama Was Worse Than We Thought

The repeatedly-delayed New Mutants finally came out this week to poor reviews, inspiring morbid fascination from film critics and X-Men fans alike. With its first trailer coming out all the way back in 2017, the film is now notorious for having its release date pushed back multiple times, dogged by rumors of extensive reshoots and creative conflicts behind the scenes. As it turns out, the reshoot rumors were false. But according to a new report published by Vulture, the behind-the-scenes issues were more convoluted than the speculation.

One of the prevailing questions was about the movie’s tone. Was New Mutants a teen drama? Was it a horror movie? Whatever it was, it wasn’t a traditional X-Men film, and there were many reports about creative differences between what studio execs wanted at Fox, and what writer/director Josh Boone actually delivered. This only got more complicated when Fox was acquired by Disney, making New Mutants a rather inappropriate addition to the Disney library.

According to Vulture, Boone pitched a 1980s blend of horror and John Hughes movies like The Breakfast Club. What he eventually delivered was a dark but PG-13-rated fantasy/horror film, and the journey involved extensive rewrites from a whole fleet of (from Josh Boone’s perspective) unwanted collaborators. Multiple writing teams were brought in to tweak Boone’s scripts, only to have Boone essentially revert back to his own vision. At one point some Fox insiders wondered if the entire film could be reshot due to its small budget, but then the Disney/Fox merger happened, and the film was stuck as-is.

One of Vulture‘s sources was quoted as saying the original script simply didn’t make sense during roundtable readings, and Boone wasn’t able to adequately explain it: “Enthusiasm is not an explanation.” Another key problem was the film’s edginess, which at various points involved more extreme horror elements and crude humor. One draft included the iconic X-Men hero Storm as a “sadistic jailer” in the mental hospital where the teen protagonists are trapped, which brings us to an ongoing issue: Boone’s problematic depiction of Black characters.

Like most of the X-Men films, New Mutants is a complicated mix of progressive and offensive. It’s the first big superhero film to have a queer couple among the lead cast, one of whom is Native American—another first. However, Boone also chose to cast a light-skinned actor (Henry Zaga) as the Brazilian superhero Roberto “Sunspot” da Costa, a controversial choice because the character was originally Black, and has a long history of being whitewashed in Marvel comics.

Boone’s poorly-worded explanation for this casting choice just added fuel to the fire, saying he “didn’t care” about racism in Brazil, and merely chose the best actor for the role—including his opinion that Zaga was especially good at portraying Sunspot’s wealthy background. This obviously implies that a Black actor would be less appropriate to play a rich character, which is both racist and counter to Sunspot’s canonical origins. In the comics, Sunspot’s mom is white, and his dad—a wealthy businessman—is Afro-Brazilian. Boone also cast the light-skinned actress Alice Braga as the recurring X-Men character Cecilia Reyes, a Puerto Rican mutant who is Black in the comics.

Sunspot’s whitewashing has been widely discussed in Marvel fandom for years, even more so once New Mutants was announced, but this clearly wasn’t an issue for Boone. Combined with the (thankfully mothballed) idea of rebooting Storm as a “sadistic jailer,” this paints a troubling picture of Boone’s attitude to Black characters. So in addition to his creative conflicts with the studio and the obvious difficulties of releasing a film during the pandemic, Boone has now managed to alienate many of the film’s target audience of young X-Men fans. Reading back over all the conflicts between Boone and Fox before New Mutants even started filming, it’s hard to see why he wasn’t just fired and replaced with another director. It certainly wouldn’t have been the first time for a movie like this one.

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H/T Vulture

*First Published: Aug 28, 2020, 6:50 am

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested. Follow her on Twitter: @Hello_Tailor


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BLACKPINK – ‘Ice Cream (with Selena Gomez)’ M/V

BLACKPINK – ‘Ice Cream (with Selena Gomez)’ M/V
BLACKPINK – ‘Ice Cream (with Selena Gomez)’

Come a little closer cause you looking thirsty
Imma make it better sip it like a Slurpee

Snow cone chilly
Get it free like Willy
In the jeans like Billie
You be poppin’ like a wheelie

Even in the sun you know I keep it icy
You could take a lick but it’s too cold to bite me

Brrr brrr frozen
You’re the one been chosen
Play the part like Moses
Keep it fresh like roses

Look so good yeah look so sweet
Looking good enough to eat

Coldest with this kiss so he call me ice cream
Catch me in the fridge right where the ice be

Look so good yeah look so sweet
Baby you deserve a treat

Diamonds on my wrist so he call me ice cream
You can double dip cause I know you like me

Ice cream chillin’ chillin’
Ice cream chillin’
Ice cream chillin’ chillin’
Ice cream chillin’

I know that my heart could be so cold
But I’m sweet for you come put me in a cone

You’re the only touch yeah they get me melting
He’s my favorite flavor always gonna pick him

You’re the cherry piece just stay on top of me so
I can’t see nobody else for me no

Get it flip it scoop it
Do it like that ah yeah ah yeah
Like it love it lick it
Do it like lalala oh yeah

Look so good yeah look so sweet
Looking good enough to eat

Coldest with this kiss so he call me ice cream
Catch me in the fridge right where the ice be

Look so good yeah look so sweet
Baby you deserve a treat

Diamonds on my wrist so he call me ice cream
You can double dip cause I know you like me

Ice cream chillin’ chillin’
Ice cream chillin’
Ice cream chillin’ chillin’
Ice cream chillin’
Ice cream chillin’ chillin’
Ice cream chillin’
Ice cream chillin’ chillin’
Ice cream

Chillin’ like a villain yeah ra ra ra
미친 미친듯한 속도 in my La Fera
너무 빨러 너는 삐끗 원한다면 그냥 지름
Millis Billis 매일 벌음 한여름 손목에 얼음

Keep it movin’ like my lease up
Think you fly boy where ya visa
Mona Lisa kinda Lisa
Needs an ice cream man that treats her

Keep it movin’ like my lease up
Think you fly boy where ya visa
Mona Lisa kinda Lisa
Needs an ice cream man that treats her

Na na na na na
na na na na na na na
Ice on my wrist yeah I like it like this
Get the bag with the cream
If you know what I mean

Ice cream
Ice cream
Ice cream chillin’

Na na na na na
na na na na na na na
Ice on my wrist yeah I like it like this
And I’m nice with the cream
If you know what I mean

Ice cream
Ice cream
Ice cream

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Cordae – Gifted ft. Roddy Ricch (Dir. by @_ColeBennett_)

Cordae – Gifted ft. Roddy Ricch (Dir. by @_ColeBennett_)
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