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Jamie Ernst

Dub FX - Love Someone - 0 views

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    I stumbled across this song and this guy uses his own recording to do his songs and we were talking about recording our own voice for the podcast, so I figured I would just post it for people to see!
Bill Genereux

The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser (Wired UK) - 0 views

  • We have reached the stage where someone offering a contrasting opinion is viewed as deliberately trying to wind up others.
  • if you surround yourself with voices that echo similar opinions to those you're feeding out, they will be reinforced in your mind as mainstream, to the point that it can distort your perception of what is the general consensus.
Bill Genereux

How Much Should You Know About How Facebook Works? - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • we may have passed the point where it's possible for people to reasonably expect they'd have to give consent before a corporation messes with the algorithmic filters that affect the information they see online.
  • t is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science
  • Everyone knows that filters are imposed on information streams online
Bill Genereux

Women aren't welcome on the Internet - 0 views

  • nstead of logging off, Criado-Perez retweeted the threats, blasting them out to her Twitter followers. She called up police and hounded Twitter for a response.
  • Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest of three men. Twitter—in response to several online petitions calling for action—hastened the rollout of a “report abuse” button that allows users to flag offensive material.
  • What I can’t cope with after that is the victim-blaming, the patronising, and the police record-keeping.
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  • I can just about cope with threats
  • state attorney’s office to convict Macchione on 19 counts, one of which was cyberstalking
  • Macchione was sentenced to four years in prison.
  • Despite his pattern of abusive online behavior, Macchione was ultimately arrested for an unrelated physical crime.
  • he officers she spoke to—who thought usernames were secret codes and didn’t seem to know what an IP address was
  • The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.
  • Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.
  • Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman draws a distinction between “tourists” and “vagabonds” in the modern economy
  • On the Internet, men are tourists and women are vagabonds.
  • Nathan Jurgenson
  • Twitter “has a history of saying ‘too bad, so sad’” when confronted with concerns about harassment on its platform
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    An eye opening essay on the challenges of being a woman online
Bill Genereux

Content Curation And The Future Of Search: The Howard Rheingold's Interview - 0 views

  • To be the author of your life, professor Yochai Benkler argues, you have to be aware of a diverse array of options and lifestyles. When you enter a filter bubble, you're letting the companies that construct it choose which options you're aware of.
Bill Genereux

Funny! Orchestra plays Microsoft Windows™ - the waltz - YouTube - 0 views

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    An orchestra plays the sounds of Microsoft Windows. Contains language not appropriate for prudes and small children.
Bill Genereux

Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Acquiring the habit of overcoming habitual perception is one process that brings engineering and the arts together.
  • engineering sometimes works not by satisfying recognized needs but by creating the needs it satisfies.
  • empathy is what literature, above all, is good at teaching
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  • Empathy creates better people and better technical innovations for people to use.
  • Boosting enrollments in STEM is not enough
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