his predicament stands as a chilling example of what it means to be at the mercy of the Google algorithm.
Dealing With an Identity Hijacked on the Online Highway - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The question is best directed at the search engines. And Google’s defense — that the behavior of its ever-improving algorithm should be considered independent of the results it produces in a particular controversial case — has a particularly patronizing air, especially when it comes to hurting living, breathing people.
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it was the algorithm that took the hit, and washed away accountability.
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Big Money Wins Again in a Romp - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Two days after the midterm elections, I met up with a man named Ira Glasser, the former longtime head of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Glasser is a First Amendment absolutist. And to him, that means that he supports the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling on Citizens United because he believes virtually all campaign finance laws violate the First Amendment.
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But what about what happens after the election? It is not the spending itself that is the problem, but rather the purpose of that spending.
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Is Science Kind of a Scam? - The New Yorker - 1 views
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No well-tested scientific concept is more astonishing than the one that gives its name to a new book by the Scientific American contributing editor George Musser, “Spooky Action at a Distance
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The ostensible subject is the mechanics of quantum entanglement; the actual subject is the entanglement of its observers.
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his question isn’t so much how this weird thing can be true as why, given that this weird thing had been known about for so long, so many scientists were so reluctant to confront it. What keeps a scientific truth from spreading?
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Resist the Internet - The New York Times - 0 views
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Definitely if you’re young, increasingly if you’re old, your day-to-day, minute-to-minute existence is dominated by a compulsion to check email and Twitter and Facebook and Instagram with a frequency that bears no relationship to any communicative need.
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it requires you to focus intensely, furiously, and constantly on the ephemera that fills a tiny little screen, and experience the traditional graces of existence — your spouse and friends and children, the natural world, good food and great art — in a state of perpetual distraction.
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It certainly delivers some social benefits, some intellectual advantages, and contributes an important share to recent economic growth.
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New York Launches First COVID-19 Vaccination, Test Result App For Event Attendance : Co... - 0 views
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Cuomo announced Friday that the state's health status certification, called the Excelsior Pass, will help New Yorkers voluntarily share vaccination and COVID-19 negative statuses with entertainment venues and other businesses to put the state state's economy back on track.
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New Yorkers can always show alternate proof of vaccination or testing, like another mobile application or paper form, directly at a business or venue.
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The pass could see New York's Broadway theaters, concert venues and sports arenas fill seats again after closures that started in March of 2020.
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Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children's Book Author, Dies at 104 - The New York Times - 0 views
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Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104
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Her funny stories about Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the sisters Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and a motorcycling mouse named Ralph never talked down to readers.
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Beverly Cleary, who enthralled tens of millions of young readers with the adventures and mishaps of Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the bratty Ramona Quimby and her older sister Beezus, and other residents of Klickitat Street, died on Thursday in Carmel, Calif
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My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest... - 1 views
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I realized many of my friends—especially the white ones—have no idea what I’ve experienced/dealt with unless they were present (and aware) when it happened. There are two reasons for this: 1) because not only as a human being do I suppress the painful and uncomfortable in an effort to make it go away, I was also taught within my community (I was raised in the ’70s and ’80s—it’s shifted somewhat now) and by society at large NOT to make a fuss, speak out, or rock the boat. To just “deal with it,” lest more trouble follow (which, sadly, it often does); 2) fear of being questioned or dismissed with “Are you sure that’s what you heard?” or “Are you sure that’s what they meant?” and being angered and upset all over again by well-meaning-but-hurtful and essentially unsupportive responses.
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the white privilege in this situation is being able to move into a “nice” neighborhood and be accepted not harassed, made to feel unwelcome, or prone to acts of vandalism and hostility.
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if you’ve never had a defining moment in your childhood or your life where you realize your skin color alone makes other people hate you, you have white privilege.
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Opinion | The Book That Explains Our Cultural Stagnation - The New York Times - 0 views
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The best explanation I’ve read for our current cultural malaise comes at the end of W. David Marx’s forthcoming “Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change,” a book that is not at all boring and that subtly altered how I see the world.
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Marx posits cultural evolution as a sort of perpetual motion machine driven by people’s desire to ascend the social hierarchy. Artists innovate to gain status, and people unconsciously adjust their tastes to either signal their status tier or move up to a new one.
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“Status struggles fuel cultural creativity in three important realms: competition between socioeconomic classes, the formation of subcultures and countercultures, and artists’ internecine battles.”
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How to Argue Fairly and Without Rancor (Hello, Thanksgiving!) - The New York Times - 1 views
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this may be a good time to explore what psychologists and philosophers say are the most effective ways to argue
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And by “argue” they do not mean “quarrel,” but communicate without rancor or faulty reasoning with someone who has an opposing viewpoint, with the hope of broadening one’s understanding of people and ideas.
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Listen carefully
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