Links April 7-13 2019

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Saturday April 13, 2019

Dateline Berkeley High School: "Students also learned about vote fraud, hacking and digital privacy after a high school junior who was running for class president cast hundreds of fake online votes for himself."   westport-news.com

Finally some variegation and nuance, this breakdown of the government's charges against Assange says the charge is legitimate, but alleges a broader conspiracy than it needs to.   rcfp.org

"On April 11th 2019, the US National Pet day I released a dataviz driven exploration in collaboration with Google Trends."   visualcinnamon.com

"A website aimed at tracking dark patterns identifies behavior, such as a website or app showing that a user has new notifications when they do not."   reuters.com

"Notification theater derived from security theater, 'the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.'"   offlinereport.net

"Like prophets of old, telegraph operators 'saw' the future by hearing it and used a special language to read invisible signs and translate their meaning for society."   laphamsquarterly.org

"His title, 'operator,' privileged the slim fraction of time he spent tapping message on the machine. 'Listener' was a more accurate description of his work. He and other operators spent endless hours straining to hear approaching news."   laphamsquarterly.org


Friday April 12, 2019

China Global TV Network asks if the charges against Julian Assange are fair?   


Tuesday April 9, 2019

"This effect seemed particularly powerful for young people who have never known life without an accompanying screen."   nytimes.com


Monday April 8, 2019

"Visitors to Dubai are rightfully unaware that they could be jailed for a facebook or twitter post made from outside the jurisdiction of the UAE, and made years ago."   cbsnews.com

"On the Internet, algorithms are the new librarian."   washingtonpost.com

"Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google are fighting for unbroken control of American life."   newrepublic.com

"Online news, the research says, could make it impossible to be informed—even for those who want to be."   cjr.org

"In a letter explaining why, the group told her that because her findings showed that moving to digital might not be the best strategy for newspapers, the organization didn’t want to share them with its members."   cjr.org


Sunday April 7, 2019

"When quizzed about the presentation, those shown the version with audiovisual commentary scored significantly lower than those shown the text-only version."   steamthing.com

What really happens in a VC pitch meeting?   wired.com

The EFF lists bay area privacy allies on their site.   eff.org

"China’s ban is “exposing a problem that we needed to fix anyway,” says Bridget Croke, VP of external affairs at Closed Loop Partners, an investment firm focused on the circular economy."   fastcompany.com

"Wakker’s Plug Me In initiative is the longest journey in an electric car ever recorded and was started to inspire and educate on a carbon-free future, according to the campaign’s website."   reuters.com

"Mr. Orta’s favorite item retrieved from the trash is one that he will not sell: a collection of newspapers from around the world documenting the course of World War II. He wonders why anyone would have thrown that away."   nytimes.com





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