Michael Shaw

4 weeks ago | readingthepictures.org | Michael Shaw

I’m breaking down key images from Trump’s 2025 State of the Union—moments capturing a chamber in splinters, where resistance took many forms and silence would have meant complicity. By Michael Shaw“You have no mandate! You have no mandate to cut Medicare!”Pundits blamed Democrats for losing their cool. But incitement is Trump’s stock in trade, and sitting on your hands at this point is hard to fathom.

Feb 13, 2025 | mondaq.com | Michael Shaw |Graeme Murray

In the fourth of a series of articles looking at howGenerative AI is impacting trade marks and designs, we focus ondeepfake technology - the behaviours surrounding the technologythat are prohibited and the actions that can be taken to challengeit. Deepfake technology is rapidly emerging as AI's latest'Pandora's box'.

Oct 7, 2024 | techradar.com | Graeme Murray |Michael Shaw

(Image credit: Pexels / Sora Shimazaki)Deepfake technology is rapidly emerging as AI’s latest ‘Pandora’s box. No longer limited to producing parodic content of politicians (who’ll ever forget the Pope sporting Moncler?), we are now seeing generative AI being actively weaponized, from misleading political deepfakes, clickbait celebrity advertisements, to school children deep-faking explicit pictures of classmates.

Dec 20, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Michael Shaw

The Internal Revenue Service has announced the new limits for the Gift and Estate Tax Exemption for 2024, the amount of taxable gifts that can be made during lifetime and/or the amount that can be passed at death without being subject to gift or estate tax. The new limit for an individual is $13.61 million, up from the $12.92 million limit of 2023.

Aug 5, 2023 | player.fm | Michael Shaw

Long Beach-based artist and former produce field worker Narsiso Martinez talks about: Growing up in a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico (Santa Cruz Papalutla), with several brothers and sisters, and a mom and dad who were often on the road for work; his resistance and questioning of working in the fields, something his family did when he was growing up as a way to have food on hand in tighter times; a very condensed version of his travails in crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S., which...