Welcome back. As I'm racing towards my first big break in 2017 in about two weeks (10 days in France
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June 7 · Issue #28 · View online
A combination of recommendations, observations, and personal updates
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Welcome back.
As I’m racing towards my first big break in 2017 in about two weeks (10 days in France), this is just a quick check in to let you know about all the good articles I read in the last couple of weeks.
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My vacation reading stack for France is ready.
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I always love me a good summer reading list. I’m already set for France but would love to hear your recommendations on what book to take to the beach or the balcony this summer (fiction and non-fiction). I will collect all the recommendations and put together a list for the next issue.
Oh, and I wouldn’t put Walkaway on your list.
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Supreme, and the Botmakers Who Rule the Obsessive World of Streetwear
This is probably the closest we will ever get to a fourth Blue Ant novel.
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Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism
Ian Bogost has written the much needed primer on the Blockchain and its inherent dangers.
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The Facebook president and Zuck's racist rulebook
Facebook is not a country, yet it is assigning and removing rights about censorship and speech. It is not a civil rights organization, yet it decides that immigrants don’t have protected status within its walls. Violet Blue pulls together some of the recent Facebook reportings and describes a similar picture of a company that seems utterly incapable of grasping its own problem
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Facebook Doesn't Understand Itself
Facebook must accept the reality that it has changed how people talk to each other. The company’s content moderation guide suggests it hasn’t come to grips with its unique role in the world – having made the same observation on my trip in March, it is fascinating to see how this has become a major topic over the last couple of weeks.
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Underpaid and overburdened: the life of a Facebook moderator | News | The Guardian
It’s been 2 years since I’ve talked about the exploitation of data janitors as the dirty secret of Silicon Valley.
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Gratitude for Invisible Systems
One way to improve democracy is for more people to appreciate its complex technological underpinnings.
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Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more,
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We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment
What best distinguishes human beings from other animals is our foresight, as scientists are just beginning to recognize.
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The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been
Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile. Why? “By ‘end of the world’, we usually mean the end of our world.” |
How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
Michelle Nijhuis reports on a course at the University of Washington, in Seattle, that teaches students to approach data-backed claims with skepticism.
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Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in
This piece brought together a lot of loose ends for me connected to Accelerationism. Unfortunately, it avoids calling Nick Land out as a facist.
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“The best question I get asked in my job is: What’s the worst that could happen?” |
Big data can be a powerful tool for the good of society, but data is not evidence, and the rise of the use and misuse of big data in policy has risen in parallel with its more commercial deployment. |
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