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Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times
It's a shortcut to understanding, and there are no shortcuts
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 13,065 posts.
Society, Policy & Culture
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Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)
This is my personal blog. The views expressed on this page are mine alone. Update, April 8, 2013: Can you hear it? Take the watermark listening test. Update, January 14, 2015: Check out the results of the listening test. A while ago, I wrote about my confusion regarding Weird Spotify Compression Artifacts. It turns…
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Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear. Here's why that's dangerous.
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UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
We confirm that in 2020 and 2021 we observed and notified the government of the United Kingdom of multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections within official UK networks, including the Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru
The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware, including members of the European Parliament, Catalan Presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organisations.
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On leaving Turkey (2021)
Painless, quick delivery of your domain name. Fast and professional service.
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Vampire Attack Twitter
Here’s a simple way to take over Twitter for way less than $43 billion dollars.
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Notable items missing from English Wikipedia
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown
This is a different type of post. Here, instead of presenting the voice of a single person, I have translated selected stories shared on Weibo and elsewhere on the Chinese Internet—or more fittingl…
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Psychedelics and mental illness
The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism
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An argument for a return to Web 1.0
The web was established with the best of intentions. The basic idea was that if everyone could share their thoughts and ideas with the world, the best ones would be vetted and float to the top. The bad ones would be ignored and pushed to the bottom.
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The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive down
Computational Biologist + Designer + more
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The fake artists problem on streaming platforms
Recent revelations from an alleged industry insider paint a disturbing picture
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Are film critics losing sync with audiences?
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist at the New York Times, who asked if I felt that film critics were losing touch with the tastes of the broader public.
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What Le Corbusier got right about office space
A century ago, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for factory workers near Bordeaux. The resulting development, Cité Fr…
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I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it
Avoided emissions seem like a (well-intentioned?) shell game
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Internet Mail 2000
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.
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A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle
I was just reminded of an event I inadvertently caused. I found some screenshots I took of a few websites. The websites all touched on a joke I made. I wrote it on a subreddit dedicated to finding comedy in programming topics: /r/ProgrammerHumor.
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Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours
Will Californians across the state soon be saying “Thank God it’s Thursday” as they look forward to a mandated three-day weekend all year round? Efforts to reduce work time have regained steam with the California Legislature’s introduction of a bill to reduce the standard workweek to 32 hours – without sacrificing…
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Patina and Intimacy
“Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe.”