Links Mar 17-23 2019
Saturday Mar 23, 2019
They flee to what they know, their screens. artplusmarketing.com
Human contact is now a luxury. nytimes.com
Anne Lamott values paper. soundcloud.com
A brand of pen records both audio and an image of the notes you take as you take them, which "allows you to go back to any point in your notes and listen to the audio from that point, which is great for finding the best quote from an interview." nytimes.com
Bill Maher names innovating for the sake of "reverse improvement." youtube.com
Recording shows oil executives talking about access to a president. rollingstone.com
Kids enter app fair in Orange County. coolestprojects.org
Facebook requested user phone numbers for account security, then exposed those users to other people looking them up by phone number, and "doesn't give you an option to opt-out." techcrunch.com
Marc Maron and Amy Sedaris talk reception TV and landlines. wtfpod.com
Friday Mar 22, 2019
"The typewriter doesn't judge you." imdb.com
"Eighty-six percent (86%) said they would not be concerned about giving their personal information to a UN official. Yet for Facebook, 30% expressed concern about giving the social media site their personal information, 52% were unconcerned, and 15% were unsure." datasociety.net
"Here is the story of how as a novice to this industry, I was grifted by my agents and how I learned everything I ever needed to know about packaging." davidsimon.com
"R also excels at data visualization." datasciencecentral.com
"In hard-to-fill jobs, employers prefer relevant work experience rather than a four-year degree." hbs.edu
France's CheckNews whose guiding principle is to "restore the trust of our readers," has nine staff journalists now that they've added a science specialist. poynter.org
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Uber plans to issue its IPO in April on the NYSE. bloomberg.com
The making of modern agriculture. This Blessed Earth by Ted Genoways is a crash course in understanding modern agriculture. Read it and join the #TalkofIowa #bookclub on Monday, March 25th at 10am. @IowaPublicRadio @TedGenoways pic.twitter.com/PSqpZFuooW
— Charity Nebbe (@CharityNebbe) March 18, 2019
"Gigi has opted for a more fashion-forward spin on 'serious dressing' — as befitting someone reading a book beloved by 'French literature fiends' — pairing Camus’ existential classic with a deconstructed, slim-fit, chartreuse capris-pant suit and black boots. nypost.com
"Shiny new scandal eclipses an 'old' one." twitter.com
"City College of San Francisco students and instructors say the college’s administration could soon put computer science, foreign language and music classes on the chopping block as it seeks to minimize under-enrolled courses." sfchronicle.com 📰
A Chancellor of SFCC, which enrolls about 63,000 students, "said the school 'can no longer afford to direct resources into single-digit enrollment, especially when there is such high demand for additional courses that lead to graduation and transfer.'" sfchronicle.com 📰
Columnist Otis Taylor covers nonprofits helping fourth-graders catch up their reading skills before the accelerate into adolescence. sfchronicle.com 📰
LTE: Is it possible to build recycling plants here? sfchronicle.com 📰
Two new books use fiction to show how self-control becomes self-destruction. nytimes.com ➰
EU fines Google for anti-competitive practices in the online ad space. sfchronicle.com 📰
Housing was already under construction big time back in 2016, if this map Tim Redmon posted is to be believed. 48hills.org
GLAS animation festival looks like a must-see. datebook.sfchronicle.com 📰
Wedbesday Mar 20, 2019
"The Advertising Standards Authority has slapped down short-term loans provider Peachy.co.uk, part of Cash on Go Ltd, for seeking to unfairly capitalise on consumer Brexit fears." thedrum.com
Books fill vending machines in Tennessee. theweek.com
Enabling connected transformation with Apache Kafka and TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform: cloud.google.com
Dan Gillmore's ASU colleague outlines 11 goals for news and media literacy — goals he says are necessary to meet the challenges of the modern world. newscollab.org
Extravert Dave Winer discovers in 2019 his first Facebook misdirection; Facebook for over a decade "errs" on the side of connecting people, and will not disclose up front there's a hidden setting to disallow people joining your "private" group. scripting.com
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
EBX issue. The entire issue. flash.eastbayexpress.com 📰
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Facebook says it wants to do something about news deserts. Sharing its data, it says, is a start: poynter.org
Is the business model for American news "Trump Plus Rolling Scandal" sustainable? neimanlab.org
Brexit Marks End of Britain as Great Power: politicalwire.com
Facebook frosting on lack of local news hindering service. apnews.com
A 14-year-old gets her first smartphone and social media accounts, discovers her mom's posts. fastcompany.com
Putin signed into law legislation that "allows the authorities to block websites or Internet accounts that publish what they deem to be 'fake news' and penalizing those who post material found to be insulting to state officials, state symbols, or Russian society." rferl.org
A final x-ray of Article 13: legislative wishful thinking that will hurt user rights: communia-association.org
"It’s not too late to remove Article 13" communia-association.org
A former Neo-Nazi who co-founded the group "Life After Hate" told NPR Saturday for the first time in his life "I received emails from mothers of 10-year-old sons who are being recruited." npr.org
Sunday Mar 17, 2019 ☘️
Former Federal Reserve examiner Carmen Segarra talked about the close relationship between the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the financial giant Goldman Sachs.: booktv.com
Zero Hedge articles would not post to Facebook until a high-profile journalist wrote about it, at which time Facebook mysteriously restored permission for users to post Zero Hedge stories. Some speculate it's because Zero Hedge wrote about Elizabeth Warren, who proposed breaking up the big tech companies. zerohedge.com matttaibbi
Honeypod claims to block Batman companies from surveilling and more. shop.honeypod.org
The comments to this April 11 2018 CNN video show it was the audience, not congress, that was naive about Facebook; in a time of accelerating linkrot I note the video's title is "These are the most confusing questions Congress asked Zuckerberg." youtube.com
"CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand —Mucad Ibrahim was wearing little white socks, the type with grips on the bottom so that toddlers don’t slip, when he was carried out of the Al Noor mosque in this city." msn.com
Two single moms who have paid rent on time living in units in the same Oakland triplex just acquired by new owners say their landlord is rushing to evict tenants before a "just cause eviction" loophole closes. msn.com
High heel emojis in a text message were used in court to allege human trafficking. blog.ericgoldman.org
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