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The New York Times

House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’

6 min · From 2020 · In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook needed to be checked and recommended reforming antitrust laws. · Shared by 63, including John Tasioulas, Katie Benner, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Lily Ray 😏, Shoshana Zuboff, Scott Galloway, Antonio Vieira Santos
facebook
amazon
The New York Times

Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not?

13+ min · From 2020 · It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure. · Shared by 107, including Mathew Ingram, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Joanna J Bryson, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Gary Thomas 🌐, MIT Press, Klaus Eck, Stephanie A Kowalski, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Kara Swisher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave)
social media marketing
bots
nature

How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science

9 min · From 2020 · A new breed of researcher is turning to computation to understand society — and then change it. · Shared by 200, including Mark Kaigwa, Faik Ersoy, mdy, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, M.J. Crockett
science
social media
twitter
research
social science
MIT Technology Review

Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.

4 min · From 2020 · Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. · Shared by 240, including Anthony Hamelle, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, LARRY ELKAN, Eric Bailey, Tris Hussey, Rick Powell, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Katja Evertz, Jim Marous 💯, Bill Johnston, Mathew Ingram, Antonio Vieira Santos, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, luis antónio santos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Josep M. Ganyet
technology
society
equality
The New York Times

We Live in Zoom Now

9 min · From 2020 · Zoom is where we work, go to school and party these days. · Shared by 109, including Fern, Mari Smith, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Johannes Lenz, Matt Navarra, luis antónio santos, Michael (मुकेश), 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mark Kaigwa, Klaus Eck, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Scott McLeod, Ricky Yean, Michael Schär, Claudia Sommer, Ramon Ray, KarsGPT, Kara Swisher
digital life
business
remote work
work
The New York Times

The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online

7 min · From 2020 · We’ve always hoped that our digital tools would create connections, not conflict. We have a chance to make it happen. · Shared by 75, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Alfie Kohn, Michael (मुकेश), Rick King, luis antónio santos, Kate Nasser, Mark Little, Kara Swisher, Fern, Daniel, Nir Eyal
coronavirus
better living
maldita.es

Alternativas digitales para tu día a día - Maldita — Periodismo para que no te la cuelen

12+ min · From 2020 · ¿Por qué necesitamos alternativas a muchas de las apps y de los servicios que utilizamos todos los días? En Maldita Tecnolgía te lo contamos en este repositorio de servicios digitales. · Shared by 5, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
Spotify Engineering

Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data

5 min · From 2020 · The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year.… · Shared by 212, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Oscar MacDonald, Tom Connor, Tauno, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, sircharlsxavier, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Mike Tamir, PhD
programming
music
software engineering
MIT Technology Review

What AI still can’t do

9 min · From 2020 · Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with. · Shared by 319, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jonathan Kogan, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Evan Selinger, Thomas Power, Gerd Leonhard, Rick King, Bob E. Hayes, Martin Ford, John Nosta, Nige Roberts-Willson, Damir Kusar, sircharlsxavier, Greg Satell, Oliver Ewinger
artificial intelligence
The New York Times

The Weekender

1 min · From 2020 · Shared by 8, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
The Guardian

The rise of facial recognition technology

2 min · From 2020 · With facial recognition technology getting more sophisticated each year, technology editor Alex Hern explores the issue of privacy. Also today: Jamie Grierson on Sunday’s terrorism attack in south… · Shared by 146, including adrianoesch, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa, Jochen Burkhard, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
technology
facial recognition
The Guardian

Infinite scroll: life under Instagram

17+ min · From 2020 · The long read: After a few years, I came to understand Instagram dwellers as broken people – my people · Shared by 263, including Gabriele, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mars Rebello, Sam Proud, Klaus Eck, Scott Monty, Mark Kaigwa, luis antónio santos, Stephanie A Kowalski
social media
digital life
attention economy
Towards Data Science

Python Tutorial For Researchers Who use R

7 min · From 2020 · Installation, Loading Data, Visualization, Linear Regression, Rpy2 · Shared by 3, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
WIRED

An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus

2 min · From 2020 · The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. · Shared by 377, including CyberCodeTwins, Mathew Ingram, Nick Cote, Katja Evertz, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Bob E. Hayes, Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Rick King, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Daniel Kraft, MD, Bob Gourley, Eric Topol, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Claudia Sommer, Tamara McCleary, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, John Nosta, Carl Robinson 🎙️
artificial intelligence
wuhan
Data Visualization Society

2019 Was the Year Data Visualization Hit the Mainstream

9 min · From 2019 · From our president to our clothes to our books, this year showed that Dataviz has become an integral part of modern culture · Shared by 18, including Nadieh Bremer, Elijah Meeks, Oscar MacDonald, Thomas Power, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
EL PAÍS

Los algoritmos buenos y tontos que mueven el mundo

3 min · From 2020 · La mayoría de las rutinas informáticas son más simples y útiles que esas piezas de ‘software’ opacas que tanto nos inquietan · Shared by 4, including Politikon, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
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