Nieman Lab
How much political news do people see on Facebook? I went inside 173 people’s feeds to find out » Nieman…
10 min · · October 2020 was one of the craziest news months in recent history, but you wouldn't know it by looking in people's Facebook feeds. · Shared by 49, including Nieman Reports, rogerverhoeven, Mark Little, Katja Evertz, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
The New York Times
How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories
5 min · · Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts about voter fraud. · Shared by 125, including 💥 Katie Martell, Anita Leirfall, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Ted Coiné, Faik Ersoy, Tim, Judd Legum, Trey Tweets Into the Void, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Rand Fishkin, Dave Kellogg, Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon (see below), Mark Kaigwa, rogerverhoeven, niazakhan, John Koetsier
Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg
A Big List of Philosophy Podcasts
3 min · · How many philosophy podcasts are there? At least 60, and they take a variety of forms. · Shared by 221, including Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Kevin Roberts, Anita Leirfall, Liam Bright, Kevin J.S. Zollman, Memen Isimo, Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Peter Adamson, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jean-Patrick, ExApologist, rogerverhoeven, Massimo Pigliucci, Josep M. Ganyet
WIRED
When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'
6 min · · A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. · Shared by 207, including John Nosta, Harold Sinnott, Dr. Alec Couros, Marsha Collier, Terence Mills, Bob E. Hayes, Helen Yu, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Andreas Staub, Ian M Calvert, MIT CSAIL, @benp sur mastodon.social, Nicolas Babin, rogerverhoeven, Backchannel, John Hagel, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, redjotter, Antonio Vieira Santos
MIT Sloan Management Review
The New Elements of Digital Transformation
2 min · · The competitive advantages offered by digital technology have evolved. Here’s how to capture them. · Shared by 125, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Marsha Collier, Linda Grasso, Michael Fisher, Jim Marous 💯, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Bertrand Duperrin, Robert Rose, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Prof. Sally Eaves, Lee Keyes, Antonio Grasso, Katja Evertz, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Wilko S. Wolters, Kelly Hungerford, davidabrock, Harold Sinnott
Lifehacker
Turn Off Gmail's 'Smart' Features to Avoid Tracking
2 min · · Google collects data on everything you do while using its products and services. Sometimes this data is sold to advertisers; sometimes it’s used to make it easier to use Google’s products. · Shared by 97, including rogerverhoeven
The Pudding
Welcome to the Cloud Zoo
1 min · · Live-streamed animals from your favorite zoos and aquariums all in one place · Shared by 61, including Mark Kaigwa, Walter Hickey, Amber Thomas, RJ Andrews, rogerverhoeven
Fast Company
Why Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are all building AI notetakers for doctors
3 min · · Automated medical transcription that’s actually accurate could save doctors a huge amount of time, and the tech giants are getting in on the action. · Shared by 51, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, LARRY ELKAN, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, rogerverhoeven
MIT Technology Review
An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI
3 min · · Semantic Scholar, a scientific literature search engine, is using recent breakthroughs in natural-language processing to give researchers the tl;dr on papers. · Shared by 185, including Justin Cranshaw, Carla Gentry 🎶, andre hollstein, Helen Yu, Francesco Corea, AI, Nicolas Babin, rogerverhoeven, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Terence Mills
The New York Times
Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps
7 min · · Since the election, millions have migrated to alternative social media and media sites like Parler, Rumble and Newsmax. · Shared by 95, including Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), @JanWillemTulp@vis.social, Nir Eyal, luis antónio santos, Matt Navarra, Graham Roberts, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Steve Faktor, Katja Evertz, rogerverhoeven
The Verge
Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app
10 min · · Google says all of this data won’t be used for ads, but it’s still a lot of data to give to Google. · Shared by 100, including Peter Schmidhuber, rogerverhoeven, Sebastien Meunier, Chris Messina, Chris Gledhill, felix salmon, dunschtig, Michael (मुकेश), Florian Graillot
TNW
How to build a successful business model around open source software
5 min · · The right approach to open source can be a great revenue model for the software provider — my company did it and we've been profitable since day one. · Shared by 44, including Carla Gentry 🎶, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Chris Isak, rogerverhoeven
WIRED
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
3 min · · The open source movement runs on the heroic efforts of not enough people doing too much work. They need help. · Shared by 69, including Keerthi G, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Kate Lee, Backchannel, rogerverhoeven, Matthias Lampe, Esther Schindler
CJR
Five Days of Facebook Fact-Checking
18+ min · · Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content—a realm within which Facebook is trying to establish a… · Shared by 113, including emily bell, rogerverhoeven, Katja Evertz, Tah Wesley 22, Gabriele, Mathew Ingram, Bill Johnston
CJR
The Substackerati
Summary · 19+ min · · Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? · Shared by 359, including Thomas Knüwer, Kyle Chayka, Carrie Brown, Mathew Ingram, Bethany Brookshire, getAbstract, Bourree Lam, Adam Tinworth, Nieman Reports, Mark Kaigwa, Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻♂️, Lynn Cherny, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Ben Thompson, Karen K. Ho, Esther Schindler, Matt Zoller Seitz, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Nathan Baschez 📧, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
After 30 years, PepsiCo redesigned the two-liter bottle. Here’s why
4 min · · It’s still plastic, but the company has slightly reduced its footprint while vastly improving the UX. · Shared by 62, including Carla Gentry 🎶, rogerverhoeven