The New York Times
House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’
6 min · · 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
The New York Times
Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not?
13+ min · · 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)
nature
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
9 min · · 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
MIT Technology Review
Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.
4 min · · 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
The New York Times
We Live in Zoom Now
9 min · · 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
The New York Times
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online
7 min · · 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
maldita.es
Alternativas digitales para tu día a día - Maldita — Periodismo para que no te la cuelen
12+ min · · ¿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 · · 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
MIT Technology Review
What AI still can’t do
9 min · · 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
The Guardian
The rise of facial recognition technology
2 min · · 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
The Guardian
Infinite scroll: life under Instagram
17+ min · · 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
Towards Data Science
Python Tutorial For Researchers Who use R
7 min · · 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 · · 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 🎙️
Data Visualization Society
2019 Was the Year Data Visualization Hit the Mainstream
9 min · · 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 · · 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