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The 35 Words You Need to Python
· Let’s face it, learning to write computer programs is hard. Doing so involves picking up a lot of specialized skills and jargon, most of which is unfamiliar, and it also means cultivating a mental… · Shared by 30, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Real Python, Vikram Dutt
EFF
Privacy for Students
10 min · · Schools are increasingly adopting surveillance technology to spy on students while they’re at school, at home, or even on their social media. The companies that make these surveillance products and… · Shared by 51, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Thomas Pleil, Evan Selinger, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
Singularity Hub
For the First Time Ever, the World Is Mostly Middle Class and Largely Old
4 min · · The world just underwent a double tipping point in age and wealth—a shift that has profound implications for global development and the world economy. · Shared by 53, including John Hagel, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Brian Ahier, Jonathan Kogan
The Guardian
Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds
4 min · · Amazon could turn into source of CO2 in atmosphere by next decade, research suggests · Shared by 111, including Prof Michael E. Mann, Marius Bleuer, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Katja Evertz, Claudia Sommer, CIFOR, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Rico Grimm, Bill McKibben
Harvard Business Review
Is There Someone You Work with and Wish You Didn’t Have to?
2 min · · Dear HBR: answers your questions with the help of organizational psychologist Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler. · Shared by 48, including Charles Duhigg, Thomas Power, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Niklaus Gerber
Vox
Tikked off: What happens when TikTok fame fades
9 min · · A social media app has never turned kids into celebrities — or has-beens — faster. · Shared by 35, including Stephanie A Kowalski, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Christopher Mims 🤌, Katja Evertz, Dr. Alec Couros, Matt Navarra
The New York Times
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
5 min · · Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public. · Shared by 296, including Thomas Fuchs , Mike Butcher, BrendanEich, Paul Roetzer, Neeraj K Agrawal, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Mathieu von Rohr, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, The Indian Express, Kashmir Hill, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Carl Zimmer, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Claudia Sommer, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Katie Benner, Cat Zakrzewski, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Richard Deitsch, John Battelle
Real Life
Fair Warning — Real Life
11+ min · · For as long as there has been AI research, there have been credible critiques about the risks of AI boosterism · Shared by 110, including Matthias Lampe, Katja Evertz, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Nilofer Merchant, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, Desmond Williams, 瑞拿頭, Abeba Birhane, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social
Harvard Business Review
How to Mend a Work Relationship
6 min · · Three ways to rebound after a conflict. · Shared by 114, including davidabrock, Stephanie A Kowalski, Charles Duhigg, Ines Bieler, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Katja Evertz
TED Talks
Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware
· Shared by 154, including L. Taylor Banks, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Mark Kaigwa, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Meltem Demirors, karin friedli, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
The Guardian
UK to launch specialist cyber force able to target terror groups
2 min · · GCHQ and Ministry of Defence to roll out national task force of hackers after months of delay · Shared by 24, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Marc R Gagné MAPP
The Daily Beast
Facial-Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement Says Entire Client List Was Stolen
1 min · · Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers. · Shared by 89, including Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Paolo Sinelli, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Trey Tweets Into the Void, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Arnie Kuenn, Brian Roemmele, Antonio Vieira Santos, Claus Heller 🇺🇦, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tom Cardoso, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Kashmir Hill
The Cut
Replaying My Shame
17+ min · · Thirteen years later, what happened at Gawker isn’t going away. · Shared by 72, including Mathew Ingram, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, anildash.com
The Verge
How hard will the robots make us work?
20+ min · · Shared by 576, including Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Nige Roberts-Willson, Jeff Toister, Terence Mills, LARRY ELKAN, Ronald van Loon, Mathew Ingram, Joanna J Bryson, Alf Rehn, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Scott Santens, Mike Tamir, PhD, Evan Selinger, Brian Solis, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, John Hagel, Antonio Vieira Santos, Brooks Rainwater
Insider Business
Reddit's CEO explosively described TikTok as 'parasitic' and 'spyware'
1 min · · Reddit's boss is one of the few Silicon Valley execs to openly criticize TikTok. · Shared by 43, including Carlos Gil, Ron McIntyre, Real Marsha Wright®, LARRY ELKAN, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Robert Caruso
OneZero
Apple’s Secret Monopoly
20+ min · · Its App Store has a choke hold on your devices. That may not last much longer. · Shared by 48, including Dominic Grzbielok, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Niklaus Gerber, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN