The New York Times
It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
Summary · 20+ min · · What with data privacy scandals, fake news and Russian interference, Facebook finds itself in the middle of a growing storm. An increasing number of voices in US politics – as well as in economic and legal circles – have started to call for the breakup of the internet giant. Now Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has joined the chorus. He makes his case in a New York Times op-ed, which has become an instant must-read for anybody interested in the debate about the role of government in the social media space. · Shared by 407, including ❤️ Umair, Thomas Power, Adrienne Fichter, Tristan Harris, Molly Wood, Gerd Leonhard, Jeff Bussgang, Stewart Alsop, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, mrbrown, Richard Gutjahr, Gabriel Weinberg, John Battelle, rufuspollock, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Azeem Azhar, Rand Fishkin, Matt Navarra, Hannes Grassegger
Product Habits
My Billion Dollar Mistake
11+ min · · At my last company, KISSmetrics, I made a mistake that I truly believe lost me a billion dollar opportunity. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m now obsessed with… · Shared by 253, including Kevin Ho, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Oriol Farré, Josh Elman, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Tim Herbig, Dez S. Papp, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Ricky Yean, Dominik Grolimund, Taylor Pearson, Codementor, hiten.eth, Neil Patel, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Ben Tossell, Justin Jackson, Sachin Rekhi, Steven Sinofsky, Ryan Hoover
Nieman Lab
Want to see what one digital future for newspapers looks like? Look at The Guardian, which isn’t losing money anymore…
7 min · · It's a remarkable turnaround for an institution that's been losing money for what seems like forever, and there are lessons to be had for other digital publishers. · Shared by 199, including Mathew Ingram, Klaus Eck, Charles Baldwin, Nieman Reports, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, bouiboui, Joshua Benton, Adrian🇨🇭, Lluís Codina, Frederic Filloux, Carl Morris, Jane, almagentia369, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Vincenzo Tremonte, ErmanTaylan.eth, NZZ Editorial Tech
WIRED
Will Artificial Intelligence Enhance or Hack Humanity?
20+ min · · Historian Yuval Noah Harari and computer scientist Fei-Fei Li discuss the promise and perils of the transformative technology with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson. · Shared by 189, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Jeff Bussgang, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bertrand Maltaverne, Yuval Noah Harari, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard, Cyrill Schmid, Thomas Power, Backchannel, Alexandra Wong, Ian M Calvert, Nicolas Berg, Dayyan Smith, Yvette Dubel, 瑞拿頭, Klaus Eck, Clemens M. Schuster, fernand0, Toby Coppel
VICE
AirPods Are a Tragedy
12+ min · · Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Lay people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. · Shared by 177, including Tillmann Lang, Kat, Tris Hussey, Christian Fauteux, George M 🇪🇺, Dominik Grolimund, Glyn Britton, Bernhard Huessy, Chris {he, they} , 瑞拿頭, tante, Trent Walton, Neil Lee, Christina, Oliver Raduner, Chris Messina, Philippe Surber, faq-mac
The New York Times
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses
15+ min · · Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known. · Shared by 168, including Mac McCann, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Nate Berg, Nils Hitze, Steven Sinofsky, Liv 😷, Mathew Ingram, John Battelle, Heisenberg Report, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Gideonro, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Esther Schindler, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, NYTimes Communications, Pete Skomoroch, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Carly
The New York Times
Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again
5 min · · Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose. · Shared by 143, including Yvette Dubel, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, fernand0, Leslie D, Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Florian Hanke 🍎, luis antónio santos, zeynep tufekci, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Fern, Thomas Pleil, Josep M. Ganyet
Splinter
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
1 min · · Why do so many startups fail? Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives? · Shared by 141, including Kenneth Kalmer, Esther Schindler, Alexander Seifert, bouiboui, Oliver Reichenstein, Bram Kanstein, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Mathew Ingram, Michael Seemann, Brad Frost, anildash.com, Loughlin O'Nolan, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Bjorn Larsen, Clemens M. Schuster, Sam Proud, Mara Averick, Jeff Atwood, Una 🇺🇦
Washingtonian 🌸
What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
19+ min · · A Washington family's nightmare year. · Shared by 118, including Rand Fishkin, Mohamed Azazy, Neil Lee, Miguel, Loubna Rais, Mathew Ingram, Draven, Bjorn Larsen
The New York Times
Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer
5 min · · By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health. · Shared by 109, including Katja Evertz, Christian Müller, Liliane Ferrari ™, Jane, Niklaus Gerber, Tristán Elósegui, Forbes India, Chris Kresser, Brian Solis, Gui Schmitt
Uber
Introducing Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React
4 min · · Base Web is a React component library which implements the Base design language to act as a device-agnostic foundation for easily creating web applications. · Shared by 87, including Oscar MacDonald, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Stu Collett, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, Vikram Dutt, Brian, Ty Smith
Insider Business
Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement
2 min · · Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. · Shared by 79, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Charles Baldwin, Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Pleil, Thomas Power, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
Sky News
Dead could outnumber living on Facebook within 50 years
2 min · · The global digital heritage of the world will be on platforms such as Facebook, say researchers, so how do we begin to analyse it? · Shared by 66, including anildash.com, Liliane Ferrari ™, Arin Basu, Bill Johnston, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mark Kaigwa, Sky News Tech, Nichole, Ste Davies, Klaus Eck, Builtvisible, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dean Anthony Gratton, Matt Navarra
The Washington Post
Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests
· Researchers attempt to measure how often people oversell themselves in society. · Shared by 62, including Clemens M. Schuster, Azeem Azhar, Chris Messina, Christopher Lauer™, Florian Hanke 🍎, Antonio Vieira Santos
The Pudding
How Algorithms Know What You’ll Type Next
6 min · · By Wessel Stoop & Antal van den Bosch If you have ever typed something on a smartphone, you have likely seen it attempt to predict what you’ll write next. This article is about how text predictors… · Shared by 58, including Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Data Science Renee, Remy Bataille, Mara Averick, Neil Lee, luis antónio santos, Scott Murray, Oscar MacDonald, rohit, Niklaus Gerber, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
WIRED
Facebook Wants to Connect You With Your 'Secret Crush'
2 min · · The new dating feature will let you express romantic interest in up to nine friends at once. · Shared by 57, including Mathew Ingram, Mike Butcher, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Loughlin O'Nolan, Backchannel