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Nieman Lab
Can you spot a fake photo online? Your level of experience online matters a lot more than contextual clues »…
4 min · · Whether an image looks like a random Facebook post or part of a New York Times story doesn’t make much of a difference. But your level of experience with the Internet and image editing does. · Shared by 114, including Mark Kaigwa, Nieman Reports, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Jane
TechCrunch
MIT’s new interactive machine learning prediction tool could give everyone AI superpowers
2 min · · Soon, you might not need anything more specialized than a readily accessible touchscreen device and any existing data sets you have access to in order to build powerful prediction tools. A new… · Shared by 94, including Vikram Dutt, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Charles Baldwin, Thomas Power, Ward Plunet, Fanzo, Howard Getson, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Siraj Raval, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Telandro, Bertrand Maltaverne
The Guardian
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'
15+ min · · One is America’s youngest-ever congresswoman, the other a Swedish schoolgirl. Two of the most powerful voices on the climate speak for the first time · Shared by 126, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, CORRECTIV, Rick Powell, Stephanie A Kowalski, Vincenzo Tremonte, Klaus Eck, Thomas Power, Charles Baldwin, Liliane Ferrari ™, redjotter, Reda El Arbi, Hannes Gassert, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Katja Evertz
Behavioral Scientist
Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
4 min · · New research indicates that consumers are catching on and may be annoyed by certain nudges, potentially limiting the nudges' effectiveness. · Shared by 104, including Miles Kimball, Thomas Power, Charles Baldwin, Bill Johnston, Ste Davies, JD Prater, Nir Eyal, Amy Jo Kim, Dominik Grolimund
The New York Times
Would You Pay $30 a Month to Check Your Email?
5 min · · One of Silicon Valley’s buzziest start-ups, Superhuman, is betting its app’s shiny features are worth a premium price. · Shared by 117, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Martijn, Bill Trenchard, Kunal Bhatia, Ed Sim, scott belsky, Chris Messina, Charles Baldwin, Scott Williams, Thomas Billeter, Bram Kanstein, Brian Solis, Stewart Alsop
The Cut
The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence
20+ min · · What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father? · Shared by 88, including Mathew Ingram, justin, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Bjorn Larsen, Charles Baldwin
The Guardian
'It could change everything': coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
9 min · · Experts believe they may have found a Kilwa coin that could change what we know about the history of global trade · Shared by 60, including Tom Connor, Korben, 瑞拿頭, Charles Baldwin
The Atlantic
Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’ Says What Other Nature Series Have Omitted
2 min · · In a groundbreaking move, the beautiful but uncomfortable documentary forces viewers to acknowledge their own complicity in the decline of nature. · Shared by 69, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Vikram Dutt, Charles Baldwin, Alexandra Wong, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Dominik Grolimund
WIRED
The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All
4 min · · The typical response to the onslaught of falsehood is to say, lol, nothing matters. But when so many of us are reaching this point, it really does matter. · Shared by 117, including Gökçe Ozan Toptaş, zeynep tufekci, Thomas Power, Mark Little, Christophe Jean, Dayyan Smith, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jonathan Kogan, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Backchannel, Amber Mac, 瑞拿頭, Charles Baldwin, Mark Kaigwa
The New York Times
How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want
5 min · · Research released this week finds that many online retailers use so-called dark patterns to influence what shoppers decide to purchase. Cracking down on the practice could be difficult. · Shared by 119, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Steven Sinofsky, Marko Saric, Neil Lee, Chris Messina, Anthony Hamelle, Gerrit Eicker, Aline Holzwarth, UX Design Weekly, Jane, Lilach Bullock, Arie Goldshlager, rudolph regter, Charles Baldwin, Mathew Ingram, tcherno
The New York Times
I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times
5 min · · The way we regulated social media platforms didn’t end harassment, extremism or disinformation. It only gave them more power and made the problem worse. · Shared by 106, including Turner Burns, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Nicolas Dengler, Mathew Ingram, Gerd Leonhard, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Chris Messina, Michael Grupe, Charles Baldwin, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The New York Times
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
13+ min · · Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business. · Shared by 176, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Michael Grupe, Liliane Ferrari ™, Craig Brown, PhD, Amber Mac, Jenny Lawson, Charles Baldwin, Tendayi Viki, Tauno, L. Taylor Banks, Philippe Surber, Yvette Dubel, W. Blake Gray, Howard Getson, Jane
The Intercept
I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights…
12+ min · · I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was born. · Shared by 104, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Richard Bernabe, Mathew Ingram, Martin Stabe, Miguel, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, 🏳️🌈☕Suzannah Is Being Incorrectly Female☕🏳️🌈, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Charles Baldwin, Bjorn Larsen, Fern
The Washington Post
Review | Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
6 min · · Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. · Shared by 183, including Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Jane, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, BrendanEich, Raphael Bratschi, Mark Kaigwa, Korben, Steven Sinofsky, W. Blake Gray, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Gideonro, Thomas Byttebier, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, mrbrown, Vincenzo Tremonte, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org
The Cut
An Excerpt from E. Jean Carroll’s ‘What Do We Need Men For?’
20+ min · · “I made a list of hideous men in my life. It includes the president — who assaulted me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago.” · Shared by 110, including Esther Schindler, Charles Baldwin, Yvette Dubel, Rob Weinert-Kendt, Fern, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jane, Heisenberg Report
SparkToro
How Much of Google’s Search Traffic is Left for Anyone But Themselves?
5 min · · In December of 2018, Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, was asked a set of questions by the United States Congress. His responses left... a lot... to be · Shared by 135, including Christophe Jean, Cyrus, Steve Rayson, Jonathan Kogan, Rand Fishkin, Charles Baldwin, Clemens M. Schuster, Cyrill Schmid, Caterina Fake, Gianluca Diegoli, Oliver Raduner, Pieter van Diggele, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social