Links Sept 9-15 2018
Saturday Sept 15, 2018
"It started happening in the early 1990s, Fennell says, when laws were passed requiring that infants be placed in the backseats of cars - and turned to the rear - as a way to prevent airbag injuries." sfchronicle.com
Thursday Sept 13, 2018
From 2016: 98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads at you: washingtonpost.com
Krugman: "By 2011, unemployment was still over 9 percent, but all the Beltway crowd wanted to talk about was the menace of the debt." nytimes.com
On August 3, 2018, @facebook went down for 45 minutes. Here's what happened, according to @Chartbeat:
— Stacey Decker (@staceyrdecker) September 13, 2018
- Overall traffic went up 2.3% across the world
- 11% increase in direct traffic
- Huge increase in other app opens: 22%
- Search up 8%#ONA18 #ONA18engagement
Tuesday Sept 11, 2018
"Facebook Inc. disclosed it gave dozens of companies special access to user data, detailing for the first time a spate of deals that contrasted with the social network’s previous public statements that it restricted personal information to outsiders in 2015." marketwatch.com
Roughly 6 in 10 rural Americans say access to high speed internet is a problem where they live - NEW post from PewResearch. twitter.com
In big shift: @Facebook kills trending topics to address "difficulty of relying on computers, even artificial intelligence, to make sense of the messy human world without committing obvious, sometimes embarrassing and occasionally disastrous errors." twitter.com
"'The radio seems to find parents more helpless than did the funnies, the automobile, the movies and other earlier invaders of the home, because it can not be locked out or the children locked in,' Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, director of the Child Study Association of America, told the Washington Post in 1931." sfchronicle.com
It's just surprising that this isn't a big campaign issue. I hear it almost everywhere I go. And I don't mean in places totally rural, I hear it as soon as you leave the densest population centers—sometimes even there. No choices, expensive, crappy service. cc:@pinboard https://t.co/MnjsWAq9FW
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 11, 2018
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