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 · · 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.
· Bly, a female pioneer in 19th century journalism, will be honored with a monument in New York City. · Shared by 15, including Charles Baldwin
cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk
Too unique to hide
· 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 · · 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… · Shared by 34, including Frederic Filloux, Rachel Thomas, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Charles Baldwin, Privacy Matters, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The Irish Times
The life and tragic death of Trinity graduate and writer Sophie Hingst
12+ min · · The 31-year-old German blogger had denied claims that she invented 22 Holocaust victims in her family · Shared by 49, including Raphael Raue, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, David Cochrane, Christopher Lauer™, Christian P. Stobbe, Franziska Bluhm 💥, Armin Wolf, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Klaus Eck
Quartz
The Facebook vigilantes who hunt pedophiles
20+ min · · Shared by 13, including Charles Baldwin
The New Republic
Beyond Pelosi
15+ min · · On the cult of D.C. savvy · Shared by 18, including Charles Baldwin
The Cut
The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap
20+ min · · A law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he? · Shared by 101, including Mathew Ingram, Prof Sophie Scott CBE, Will Leitch, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Tiago Forte, Charles Baldwin, David Nagel
Bloomberg CityLab
Here Are the Urban Highways That Deserve to Die
6 min · · The Congress for New Urbanism once again lists the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down. · Shared by 15, including Greater Greater Washington, Charles Baldwin, Esther Schindler
Bloomberg CityLab
Mapping the Effects of the Great 1960s 'Freeway Revolts'
5 min · · The urbanites who battled the construction of the Interstate Highway System may have saved some neighborhoods—but the highways came anyway. · Shared by 20, including Strong Towns, Greater Greater Washington, Nate Berg, Esther Schindler, John Hagel, Charles Baldwin, Philanthropy News Digest
Pacific Standard
What Dollar Stores Really Do to Neighborhoods
6 min · · Some cities are trying to ban or limit discount retailers, in the hopes that supermarkets with more healthy food options will move in. · Shared by 14, including Charles Baldwin, Jane, Strong Towns, junseth (All retweets are endorsements), Philanthropy News Digest
BBC News (World)
Sonny Liston: The mysterious death that haunts boxing
15+ min · · 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. · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
The Gold Rush for Private Health Data
5 min · · Data as personal property that you can choose to sell is a tempting but bad idea. · Shared by 68, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Chris Messina, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Bernhard Huessy, Mathew Ingram, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists)
The New York Times
The World According to Mad Magazine
6 min · · Grown-ups who worried it was a subversive influence on America’s youth were 100 percent correct. · Shared by 27, including Charles Baldwin, Austin Kleon, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Stowe Boyd
Scientific American
Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland
3 min · · Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
The Economist
British Jews trace Iberian heritage to retain EU citizenship
2 min · · Who might help Remainers keep EU passports? Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛