African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race. Scientists think that stress from racism makes their bodies and babies more vulnerable.
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Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
👓 Data Transparency and Civil Engineers | The Scholarly Kitchen
Civil Engineers rely partly on data provided by others to do their research. This post describes the challenges of getting, keeping, and maintaining the data.
There’s some interesting material here to think about with respect to data journalism, data retention, and sharing.
👓 Are You a Woman Traveling Alone? Marriott Might Be Watching You. | Reason
How hotel chains became the new frontier in the surveillance state.
The gist of the idea here is interesting, but the surveillance state it creates and the stupid amount of money it sucks up that could be better spent somewhere else. Where is the humanity in creating our society? Why create such fear in thousands of people for such little in return? There’s so much more to say about this, but I just don’t have the energy.
👓 Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework | framework.thoughtvectors.net
This February 2019, join us as we collaboratively read and collectively annotate three crucial parts of Doug Engelbart’s 1962 research report and manifesto, Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.
Doug Engelbart’s 1962 manifesto offers a unique, multidisciplinary perspective on how human ingenuity, in symbiosis with networked digital computing technologies, might enlarge human capability and help address humanity’s most urgent problems.
This looks like a very cool annotation project!
🎧 This Week in Google 489 I'm An Engineer, Darn It! | TWiT.TV
- Facebook hopes for a better 2019 after a public image drubbing in 2018.
- Google's Waymo Under Fire in Arizona - Literally.
- Your cell phone has a huge security flaw, and there is no plan to fix it.
- How much of the internet is made of bots? And how soon will people be the exception, not the rule?
- Copyright expires for all works created in 1923 - the 1st time this has happened in 20 years. Is Mickey Mouse next?
- One Oregon man takes his fight to call himself an engineer all the way to federal court.
- Who owns your tattoo? Not you!
- What will happen if the US tries to ban exports of AI tech?
- A cafe in Tokyo where the staff is all robots controlled remotely by paralyzed workers.
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Numbers: Google to make $3B on hardware, 16,000 BBC sound effects for free
- Leo's Tool: Listen Notes: the podcast search engine
🎧 This Week in Google 487 You're Filling It Wrong | TWiT.TV
- Google takes Manhattan
- Almost 50% of Google's workers are temps, contractors, or vendors.
- Facebook vs New York Times
- Harassment on Twitter
- Jack Dorsey's beard shavings, Azalia Banks, and ISIS
- A very Google holiday season
- RIP Oath
- Tesla fart app
- Peter Jackson restores WWI footage
Picks of the Week
- Leo's Tool: NexJack DeX Station
- Jeff's Number: Chartbeat's 2018 Most Engaged Stories
👓 Pulling the plug on Facebook | Dries Buytaert
I'm pulling the plug on Facebook because of their recent privacy violations — which got me thinking about what is next for the Open Web.
I want to pull the plug myself. I’ve essentially stopped using Facebook and have had the mobile app off my phone for almost a year and a half. I’m half waiting for better data export so I can keep all my data the way I’d like, but I’m beginning to think the moral imperative to just leave is more important.
👓 Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in “Executive Time” | Axios
It's unprecedented visibility into how the president spends his days.
I can only wonder when “nap time” and “cartoon time” are hiding?!
👓 PBE: Shortcode to set post format · Issue #240 · Automattic/jetpack | Github
Add a shortcode to the PBE parser to allow author to set Post Format via e-mail. Ported from https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2055 See: 2443-wpcom
Sad that this is marked as wontfix
👓 A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
I can certainly identify with a lot of this type of behavior. I suspect there are many in the entertainment sector who do this, or something very close to this.
👓 Post by Email | WordPress
Post by Email is a way of publishing posts on your blog using your email. Any email client can be used to send the email, allowing you to publish quickly and easily from devices such as cell phones if you don’t have the WordPress mobile app installed. This module can be enabled by switching on “...
👓 Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App | Atrium | Julia Enthoven
When I was a Stanford undergraduate in 2012, everyone seemed to be building apps. The sexiest tech startups—Snap, Uber, Facebook—were almost synonymous with the word “app,” and that the world was moving increasingly towards ?...
There’s a valuable lesson in here and it’s something that a lot of app builders don’t even consider.
👓 MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder | Wired
Even juicy divorce speculation represents a chance to acknowledge how myriad factors—and people—contribute to the success of a company like Amazon.
👓 Elias M. Stein, Mathematician of Fluctuations, Is Dead at 87 | New York Times
Arriving from Europe with diamonds in his shoes (hidden there), he found renown in his field with real-world applications, like charting a stock market.
How many references to “Diamonds hidden in the soles of shoes” can there be? Suppose this story may have somehow influenced Paul Simon?
A nice overview of some of Stein’s work.
👓 How the Seattle Times is empowering reporters to drive subscriber growth | Digiday
A successful "mini-publisher" program is helping reporters test product and coverage tweaks designed to help drive consumption and subscriber growth.