Thought Provoking Reads
Provocative and interesting articles from around the web.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
WIRED
Seeing Through Silicon Valley’s Shameless ‘Disruption’
4 min read · From 2019 · Finally we are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsibility looks like. It ain’t magical.
Shared by 22, including Backchannel, Charles Baldwin
The Washington Post
She went undercover to expose an insane asylum’s horrors. Now Nellie Bly is getting her due.
From 2019 · Bly, a female pioneer in 19th century journalism, will be honored with a monument in New York City.
Shared by 14, including Charles Baldwin
cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk
Too unique to hide
From 2019 · According to research by UCLouvain and Imperial College London, I have 83% chances of being correctly re-identified in a sampled and anonymized dataset. What about you?
Shared by 8, including luis antónio santos, Charles Baldwin
nature
Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models
20+ min read · From 2019 · Anonymization has been the main means of addressing privacy concerns in sharing medical and socio-demographic data. Here, the authors estimate the likelihood that a specific person can be re…
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Frederic Filloux, Rachel Thomas, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Cory Doctorow, Charles Baldwin, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The Irish Times
The life and tragic death of Trinity graduate and writer Sophie Hingst
~12 min read · From 2019 · The 31-year-old German blogger had denied claims that she invented 22 Holocaust victims in her family
Reader View · Shared by 48, including Raphael Raue, Merkstatt, David Cochrane, Christopher Lauer, Christian P. Stobbe, Franziska Bluhm, Armin Wolf, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Klaus Eck
Quartz
The Facebook vigilantes who hunt pedophiles
20+ min read · From 2019
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Charles Baldwin
The New Republic
Beyond Pelosi
~15 min read · From 2019 · On the cult of D.C. savvy
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Charles Baldwin
The Cut
The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap
20+ min read · From 2019 · A law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?
Reader View · Shared by 100, including Tiago Forte, Prof Sophie Scott CBE, Will Leitch, Dan Gillmor, Ernie Smith, Charlie O'Keefe, Mathew Ingram, Charles Baldwin, David Nagel
Bloomberg CityLab
Here Are the Urban Highways That Deserve to Die
6 min read · From 2019 · The Congress for New Urbanism once again lists the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down.
Reader View · Shared by 15, including Greater Greater Washington, Charles Baldwin, Esther Schindler
Bloomberg CityLab
Mapping the Effects of the Great 1960s 'Freeway Revolts'
5 min read · From 2019 · The urbanites who battled the construction of the Interstate Highway System may have saved some neighborhoods—but the highways came anyway.
Reader View · Shared by 20, including Strong Towns, Greater Greater Washington, Nate Berg, Esther Schindler, John Hagel, Charles Baldwin, PhilanTopic
Pacific Standard
What Dollar Stores Really Do to Neighborhoods
6 min read · From 2019 · Some cities are trying to ban or limit discount retailers, in the hopes that supermarkets with more healthy food options will move in.
Reader View · Shared by 14, including Charles Baldwin, Jane, Strong Towns, junseth (All retweets are endorsements), PhilanTopic
BBC News (World)
Sonny Liston: The mysterious death that haunts boxing
~15 min read · From 2019 · Sonny Liston was found dead at his Las Vegas home in 1971. A coroner concluded he died of natural causes - but some say the truth is darker.
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
The Gold Rush for Private Health Data
5 min read · From 2019 · Data as personal property that you can choose to sell is a tempting but bad idea.
Reader View · Shared by 68, including Debbie Meier ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Chris Messina, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Thomas Power, Javi Cantón, Bernhard Huessy, Mathew Ingram, Bjorn Larsen
The New York Times
The World According to Mad Magazine
6 min read · From 2019 · Grown-ups who worried it was a subversive influence on America’s youth were 100 percent correct.
Reader View · Shared by 27, including Charles Baldwin, Austin Kleon, Merkstatt, Stowe Boyd
Scientific American
Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland
3 min read · From 2019 · Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
The Economist
British Jews trace Iberian heritage to retain EU citizenship
2 min read · From 2019 · Who might help Remainers keep EU passports? Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition
Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
