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Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds
People hoping to build muscle with the support of a creatine supplement might be disappointed by new research that shows it has little to no effect when taken at the recommended level.
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What should follow the web?
Design principles and an instantiation for a post webapp world
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The Great Asshole Fallacy
On Michael Jordan being a jerk to make the Bulls great…
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Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
We're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
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Discord just killed anonymity
It finally happened. After months of speculation, Discord dropped the hammer: mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month. The era of anonymous gaming chats is officially over.
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How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
A Newspaper Classifieds Story
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Chilling Effects
In what sense do 10% of people die of the cold? Also, why are heat-related deaths most common in Greenland?
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Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: “My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value,” Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. “I’m not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mean the efficacy. Does…
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Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)
When parents praise their children's effort instead of natural ability, students learn that the work they put
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
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1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
dict.cc requests users to consent to the tracking by 1,741 "partner" companies. This makes it impossible for people to know what happens to their data
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New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
Transparency is at the heart of everything we do at Twitter. That’s why we routinely disclose datasets of information operations we can reliably link to state actors.
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When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
I just got back from a 24hr trip to Los Angeles to catch my favorite Portland Thorns team, watching them clinch their playoff spot in a match at BMO stadium in downtown Los Angeles. In May of 2024, I did the same trip to catch a match on Mother's
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Working Title (Insurance)
Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?
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San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing
The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy. The all-too-common business model is to systematically harvest, collate, and store as much of our personal data as possible, and then...
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United Kingdom to introduce security labelling on connected devices
In a press release from the UK government on January 27th 2020 called “Government to strengthen security of internet-connected products”, the new law and i
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What Happened in the 2010s
My friend Steve Kane suggested I take a longer view in my pair of year end posts this year: What, no decade end/decade ahead posts? 😕 — Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019 And so I will. Here are the big things that happened in tech, startups, business, and more in the decade that is […]
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Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings
A new study, forthcoming in The Accounting Review from Jessica Watkins, assistant professor of accountancy in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, found that, alongside 8-K reports featuring negative news, managers tend to push out simpler, unrelated press releases to divert attention from the…
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To Protect Legitimate Interests, Seattle Should Cap All Forms of Innovation
In a 9-0 decision Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of UberX, Sidecar and Lyft drivers on our streets — to protect the legitimate interests of taxi companies and the revenue they create for our city.
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Alleged $7.5B fraud in online advertising
Online advertising is often based around the idea of an "impression," but few of us actually know what that means. We assume it means some sort of interaction with a human being, but as it turns out, we're quite wrong. Today we dive into some staggering statistics with Samuel Scott.