The same family has called police an estimated 60 times over 18 years in their predominantly black neighborhood.
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👓 Microsub and the new reader evolution | skippy.net
Scott Merrill (skippy.net)I was an avid Google Reader user. When it shut down, I started hosting my own RSS reader: first tt-rss, and later miniflux. I very much liked being able to subscribe to sites and read them at my leisure. I also appreciated not having my reading habits tracked or quantified. I had maybe two dozen f...
What I was really after was the confluence of RSS feeds and Twitter and the ability to post to my own site.
👓 OAuth for the Open Web | Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)OAuth has become the de facto standard for authorization and authentication on the web. Nearly every company with an API used by third party developers has implemented OAuth to enable people to build apps on top of it. While OAuth is a great framework for this, the way it has ended up being used is ...
👓 My College Degree as an Open Digital Humanities Project | Mark Corbett Wilson
I’m developing a new model for adult learners so they can avoid the experience I had while trying to improve my skills at a Community College. Combining Self-Directed Learning, Computational Thinking, Digital Pedagogy, Open Education and Open Social Scholarship theories with Open Education Resourc...
This sounds to me to be a bit like an open digital commonplace book.
(I’m noticing, yet again, that Disqus is automatically marking any comments I make as spam.)
👓 Planning a DoOO Summer Camp – Newbies Corner | Reclaim Hosting Community
Alan Levine (Reclaim Hosting Community)For participants in the eCampus Ontario Extend project, some of whom have gotten Reclaim hosting, some who will be starting. I’m planning on running a 4 week online “summer camp” workshop. This will be open for anyone who wants to get involved. It will likely be a weekly “lesson” with some activities, an intro how to video, a weekly open office hours via Zoom, and a lot of tweeting & blogging. I’m curious to hear from others who have developed intro materials what sort of topics you find are m...
👓 Domain Camp | Domains of Our Own
Welcome to Domains Camp, where over a four week experience we will help you get your skills up in understanding and management of an internet domain of your own. We are running this over a series starting July 10, 2018 and is open to anyone or outside of Ontario Extend who wants to learn more about what is possible with an internet domain and web-hosting package. Our instructions will be tailored to the platform offered by our provider, Reclaim Hosting, but could be used by anyone with a host that uses cpanel as the interface.
This looks like an intriguing offering!
👓 If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is? | Harvard Business Review
Why you should use percentages, not words, to express probabilities.
Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia
Phil Tetlock, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied forecasting in depth, suggests that “vague verbiage gives you political safety.” ❧
This result is consistent with analysis by the data science team at Quora, a site where users ask and answer questions. That team found that women use uncertain words and phrases more often than men do, even when they are just as confident. ❧
A large literature shows that we tend to be overconfident in our judgments. ❧
The best forecasters make lots of precise forecasts and keep track of their performance with a metric such as a Brier score. ❧
👓 Thoughts on Audrey Watters’ “Thoughts on Annotation” | Jon Udell
Back in April, Audrey Watters’ decided to block annotation on her website. I understand why. When we project our identities online, our personal sites become extensions of our homes. To some online writers, annotation overlays can feel like graffiti. How can we respect their wishes while enabling conversations about their writing, particularly conversations that are intimately connected to the writing? At the New Media Consortium conference recently, I was finally able to meet Audrey in person, and we talked about how to balance these interests. Yesterday Audrey posted her thoughts about that conversation, and clarified a key point:
You can still annotate my work. Just not on my websites.Exactly! To continue that conversation, I have annotated that post here, and transcluded my initial set of annotations below.
👓 On July 4th Eve, Jeff Sessions Quietly Rescinds a Bunch of Protections for Minorities | Law and Crime
On July 3, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the DOJ was “rescinding 24 guidance documents that were unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.” Curiously enough, each point of guidance, document or tool rescinded by Sessions — in line with recommendations from Regulatory Reform Task Forces established by President Donald Trump — was initially drafted to offer basic legal and political understanding to various and distinct minority groups, broadly defined, throughout the United States.
👓 When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday | The Atlantic
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.
👓 White House scrambles to figure out how prankster got on the phone with Trump | Politico
The person inside the White House said the call was routed to the president by the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
👓 Court rules children facing deportation have no right to court-appointed lawyer | The Hill
Immigrant children who enter the country illegally with their parents have no right to a government-appointed lawyer in court, an appeals court ruled Monday
👓 The whole of WordPress compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie | Scott Hanselman
Why? Because it's awesome. Sometimes a project comes along that is impossibly ambitious and it works. I've blogged a ...
👓 The story of the internet is all about layers – More knock-on than network | The Economist
How the internet lost its decentralised innocence
IN “INFORMATION RULES”—published in 1999 but still one of the best books on digital economics—Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, two economists, popularised the term “network effects”, which means that in the digital world size easily begets size. The more popular a computer operating system, the more applications it will attract, drawing in even more users, and so on. Two decades ago the idea helped people understand the power of Microsoft and its Windows software. Today it is the default explanation for how Facebook, Google and other tech giants became dominant. The more people sign up to a social network, for instance, the more valuable it becomes for present and prospective users.
👓 How to fix what has gone wrong with the internet – The ins and outs | The Economist
The internet was meant to make the world a less centralised place, but the opposite has happened. Ludwig Siegele explains why it matters, and what can be done about it