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About attention theft
About attention theft
We just finished a primary election in California, and every day in the past month I’ve come home to 20 or more pieces of mail, almost…
·medium.com·
About attention theft
Guillaume Champeau on Twitter: Netiquette guidelines
Guillaume Champeau on Twitter: Netiquette guidelines
Fascinating to read the 1995 "Netiquette Guidelines" (RFC 1855). It was written when the Internet began to be mainstream, at a time where IRC channels, newsgroups and so on where the Facebook and Twitter of their times. Wise words.https://t.co/stOD6Hxl4E pic.twitter.com/Vd8GKw9DKF— Guillaume Champeau (@gchampeau) August 3, 2018
·twitter.com·
Guillaume Champeau on Twitter: Netiquette guidelines
Alastair Somerville on Twitter
Alastair Somerville on Twitter
Why #bigdata can do wrong in human centered design. The abstraction can be true but meaningless for any individual human. #data pic.twitter.com/49FRc0StII— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) August 4, 2018
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Alastair Somerville on Twitter
Anil Dash 🥭 on Twitter
Anil Dash 🥭 on Twitter
This is quietly a major milestone in tech culture. Linus Torvalds, the leader behind Linux, git, and much of open source culture, reflects on how he’s been hostile to community members. I hope he follows through — that would be his biggest commit ever. https://t.co/1DzeWVRvLe pic.twitter.com/lY5AMxNuPd— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) September 16, 2018
·twitter.com·
Anil Dash 🥭 on Twitter
How Facebook Is Giving Sex Discrimination in Employment Ads a New Life | Am
How Facebook Is Giving Sex Discrimination in Employment Ads a New Life | Am
In 1967, the newly formed National Organization for Women staged a weeklong protest of The New York Times and other newspapers. Their demonstration targeted the long-standing practice of printing classified listings in two separate columns: “Help wanted: Male” and “Help wanted: Female,” which of course resulted in the exclusion of women from high-paying jobs and industries. As a result of NOW’s advocacy campaign, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency charged with enforcing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting race and sex discrimination in employment,...
·aclu.org·
How Facebook Is Giving Sex Discrimination in Employment Ads a New Life | Am
Cecile Janssens on Twitter
Cecile Janssens on Twitter
Doing poor stats and presenting misleading results is not just sloppy, it's unethical. h/t @CarlMoons @deeksj pic.twitter.com/8vzu2zku2g— Cecile Janssens (@cecilejanssens) September 21, 2018
·twitter.com·
Cecile Janssens on Twitter
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
·logicmag.io·
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
It’s been two tumultuous years. Still, it’s highly unlikely we’ve witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, spotted by some users on Monday, may offer a clue as to what that moment could look like. In this case, it’s a tool that prompts users to comment on live video using algorithmically-generated text or […]
·thenextweb.com·
If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much
Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much
Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible to review this product,” an Amazon prompt informed her.
·gizmodo.com·
Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much