Elections 2010 / March 2018
April 2018 | February 2018-
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Facebook’s ad preferences’ page and user archive tell totally different stories about their tracking
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- I decided there’d be no harm getting that Facebook archive since I was no longer using it.
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Business as usual at Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg comes forth, tells us nothing we didn’t already know
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- Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg came out and made a statement on Facebook that had no apology (though he gave a personal one later on CNN) and, at a time when people demanded transparency, he continued with opaqueness.
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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: the signs were there for years, if one only looked
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- Facebook’s woes over Cambridge Analytica have only prompted one reaction from me: I told you so.
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Is the death of expertise tied to the Anglosphere?
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office Boris Johnson: usually a talented delivery, but with conflicting substance.
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It can’t be that hard to rank media meritoriously, if only the big players had the will
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- US Department of Defense Keen to be seen as the establishment, and that means working with the military–industrial complex, Google is making software to help the Pentagon analyse drone footage, and not everyone’s happy with this development.
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A quick read from Prof Stephen Hawking in Wired UK
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- The late Prof Stephen Hawking’s interview with Condé Nast’s Wired UK is excellent, and a quick read.
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Has Facebook stopped forcing its “malware scanner” on to users after being busted by Wired?
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- Since Louise Matsakis’s story on Facebook’s malware scanner came out in Wired, the number of hits to my pieces about my experience has dwindled.
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Happy birthday: Autocade turns 10
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- Above: Autocade can be hard work—and sometimes you have to put up less exciting vehicles, like the 2001–7 Chrysler Town & Country, for it to be a useful resource.
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Facebook overestimates and underestimates reach depending on the story it wants to tell
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- Funny, isn’t it? Last year, Facebook was busted for claiming that in some demographics, their ads could reach more people than there were people.
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It’s as though Statistics New Zealand set up this year’s census to fail
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- You have to wonder if the online census this year has been intentionally bad so that the powers that be can call it a flop and use it as an excuse to delay online voting, thereby disenfranchising younger voters.
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