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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 Oct 2016

    I'm starting a newsletter for my thoughts too long for Twitter, not polished enough to be articles. Sign up here:

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  2. 3 hours ago

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    An investigation by German outlet shows what it means to be a guest worker in Qatar's construction sites, including in those related to the 2022 World Cup, and what's the human cost of it all. A thread with their findings. (Warning: Difficult read) 1/19
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    6 hours ago

    Approaching as being all about heroes, villains & quests is all very well, but it leaves us unable to fully comprehend events or history, or to understand social change. So argues in this fascinating article. HT via

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    18 hours ago

    Tens of thousands of images of travelers and license plates stored by the customs and border agency were stolen in a cyberattack, officials said

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    24 hours ago

    In light of 's move to force Tinder to hand over user data, warns tech companies to be concerned that the information could be used for political persecution.

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    Jun 8

    Glad that in this time of turmoil for the company, Facebook is focused on what really matters: making sure people don't have multiple capital letters in their last names.

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    Jun 8

    "The common thread in many of these stories is YouTube and its recommendation algorithm." The Making of a YouTube Radical

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    Jun 8

    More evidence of what has been saying for ages. is vastly underestimated as a cultural force.

    I’ve been working on a story for a few months that I’m excited to share. It’s about a 21-year-old guy who was radicalized into the far-right, with help from his YouTube recommendations.
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  9. Jun 8

    Also the thread under the tweet.

    Twitter is fun because you get to be like, “Ducks are good” and someone in your mentions will go, “Um, I’m sorry but my brother is married to a duck scientist and this is a harmful view” and then someone else pops up going, “Your silence about horses is extremely telling”
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  10. Jun 8

    Looking forward to next week.

    “Data ownership” is a flawed way of thinking about data. Instead we need a framework giving people rights to stipulate how their data is used without requiring them to take ownership of it. Don’t miss & discuss at next week.
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    Jun 7

    +1. As wrote in her GOT article, a good society is one where we don't need heroes. Designing systems where basic rights are only afforded through the goodwill of some participants is doomed to fail.

    The problem is that it is entirely at the discretion of the advisor. I was pregnant in grad school, and both my advisor and internship were very supportive, but other students were told to "take a leave of absence" (which cancels your health insurance and stipend.)
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    Jun 7

    This appears to be from the general Elsevier ToS. If it's not otherwise overridden on Elsa, it's is a show-stopper for any author who doesn't want to lose rights to their work from the get-go. (I tried to check, but Elsa won't let me in w Firefox, insisting I use Chrome instead.)

    Screenshot indicating Elsa's terms of service are deeply limiting to authors and end users.
    Elsevier's new authoring platform, Elsa, has deeply troubling terms of service. Whereas most tools that enable user-created content slap a restrictive (to the user and end users) license on the content, Elsevier says users fork over their rights under (C).
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  13. Jun 6

    China light, but to serve advertising.

    Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is using video captured by its doorbell cameras in Facebook ads.
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    Jun 5

    "Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring" New study with varying names on identical CV shows discrimination of post-doc applicants by race and gender:

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    Jun 6

    Please, can the tech industry just unashamedly go ahead and copy Apple in things like this?

    Apple is making very interesting moves. Also the new no-tracking sign-in. The existing Apple pay via no-tracking cryptographic token. I get the monopoly worry, but honestly these things should become industry standards for everyone.
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    Jun 5

    You wear them then.

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  17. Jun 5

    Yes that’s the big worry—Privacy-rich and rich versus most everyone else on Android ecosystems.

    Should be, in a just world. In our timeline: they're working towards a 2-tier system where poor people are trackable, criminalized, controllable, because they can't afford privacy premiums.
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  18. Jun 5

    Apple is making very interesting moves. Also the new no-tracking sign-in. The existing Apple pay via no-tracking cryptographic token. I get the monopoly worry, but honestly these things should become industry standards for everyone.

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  19. Jun 5

    This is quite interesting. Requires owning two Apple devices. "Now what’s amazing is that this whole interaction is end-to-end encrypted and anonymous.”

    When announced, Apple’s “Find My” feature seemed like a privacy disaster. But actually the way they deal with encryption is sophisticated, innovative, and cool.
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  20. Jun 5

    The other UFO 🐞 🐞🐞🐞

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    The reports that the large echo showing up on radar in Southern California last night was actually a cloud of ladybugs about 80 miles by 80 miles in size flying at between 5,000 and 9,000 feet:
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