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by avivo 8y ago
Center for Social Media Responsibility | Senior Research Engineer | San Francisco, Ann Arbor, or remote | Visa (H1B Cap Exempt) | Full-Time (or Part-Time/Fellow for the right person) | https://www.si.umich.edu/research&
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Censorship by Weaponizing Free Speech: Rethinking the Marketplace of Ideas(techdirt.com)
12 points by avivo 9y ago|2 comments
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by avivo 9y ago
Here's an example of a story from that anthology mentioned that does give a vision to aim at. https://medium.com/@aviv/degrees-of-freedom-d883f1265e89 (not by me; I got the authors permission to post). It's n
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by avivo 9y ago
> I'm not exactly sure how to create stories that help us build the capacity for understanding and appreciating how complex systems operate, but I think we desperately need them. This is exactly what I was starting to work on. Until
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by avivo 9y ago
Stories of dystopia are valuable because they help us build threat models. Stories of utopia are valuable because they give us a vision to aim at. Stories that assume new technology will lead to a better world are anti-valuable . Those sto
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by avivo 9y ago
FYI, there are some folks at http://datafordemocracy.org / http://www.startuppolicylab.org/ coordinating a study of this, including Jeff Kao, whose work on this was cited in https://www.washingto
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by avivo 9y ago
If you are interested in replicating this or extensions of this work, get in touch! You can reach via the email in the profile, here, or http://twitter.com/metaviv .
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by avivo 9y ago
The script and data used for this analysis is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10gLKGH1fqCp39x_UcEb9... And here is the original video from the creator with all the links: https:/&#x2F
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The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies as bacterial transmission reservoirs(nature.com)
1 points by avivo 9y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 9y ago
Alternatively, if it's truly an asset, can it be taxed as an asset? If I give a company a car, that is taxed. If I give a company my data which is worth more than a car, it isn't. Is it possible that current accounting/tax la
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by avivo 9y ago
Is there any site where as security vulnerabilities are disclosed, you can see each what platform/contexts are affected, which have updated, and how to do that update?
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by avivo 9y ago
The actual study writeup, showing bike use before, during, and after: https://rac.com.au/~/media/files/rac-website/pdfs/about-rac/... Total (bike and ebike use): Before: 11% 1st week: 5
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by avivo 9y ago
It references that RAC ran the study. I was curious. It turns out it's the "Royal Automobile Club of WA" (Western Australia). More details: https://rac.com.au/about-rac and https://en.wikipedia.or
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Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information(nature.com)
2 points by avivo 9y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 9y ago
Social networks function in the context of society. Which is messy. Developing a system that doesn't have very harmful failure modes is not easy. And if it's a federated standard, there is no easy way to fix it after the fact. I&#
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Facebook Is Going to Punish Websites with Junky, Sexy Ads and Little Content(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by avivo 9y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 9y ago
They already had 4500 people. And use of the moderated features is likely still growing rapidly. It's great that Facebook is increasing it's moderation numbers, but it's unclear if this was already planned and simply used (su
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Our Work Here Is Done (2013)(webstandards.org)
2 points by avivo 10y ago|1 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
I agree with title and most of the points. And I definitely don't want platforms to just arbitrarily censor what they believe is "fake news". But we also can't dismiss the responsibility of the platforms. The sort of sys
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Welcome to Series, a new type of story on Medium(blog.medium.com)
1 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
The co-ops can be members of an international org that ensures quality and consistency among its members.
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by avivo 10y ago
Very nice...but warning, it may require some effort to go back to default theme (see https://github.com/dunovank/jupyter-themes/issues/86 ) I can't actually recommend it until this is fixed.
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by avivo 10y ago
"Just as we now try to control atom-bomb fallout, so we will one day try to control media fallout. Education will become recognized as civil defense against media fallout" Written in 1964, this remains both deeply relevant and dee
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by avivo 10y ago
What if you had only an hour or so to research, write, and publish in order to meet your daily quota? "If they were writing five posts a day, one former employee recalled, Blodget [CEO of Business Insider] urged them to write six.&quot
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by avivo 10y ago
Perhaps slightly off topic, but relevant to the community—Hacker News comments on stories like this are now being "reported." As one author mentioned at Business Insider, a site where people write about business stuff: > '
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The Power of Big Data and Psychographics(youtube.com)
1 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
Someone should make realistic looking fake gift cards that you can put cash bills inside. Or for the HN crowd, perhaps bitcoin wallet info.
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'Diamond-age' of power generation as nuclear batteries developed(phys.org)
3 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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Fake News Is Not the Only Problem(points.datasociety.net)
1 points by avivo 10y ago|1 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
If you want to decrease the spread of misinformation, or if you are at Facebook, Google, etc. and want your org to support this but it isn't doing enough — we are actively working on this (and have been since before the election ) and

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