What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on September 13, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on September 6, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on August 30, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on August 23, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on August 16, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on August 9, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism? - “The experience of NPO is perhaps the strongest counter-example to some of the biggest claims made in defense of targeted advertising based on tracking users online. Microtargeting is supposed to help advertisers reach the right people, but advertisers converted more new customers using the contextual approach.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on August 2, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention You Are Not So Smart 185 - Masks Economics is a disgrace - “Elite departments are the gatekeepers of the economics profession. They circle wagons around other elites. MIT, Harvard, and Chicago define what is good research. They run two of the top five journals that many elite departments require for tenure.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 26, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 19, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 12, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 5, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
How Citizen Journalism & Education Reform Can Save Us from Bad Science Why Economics Needs More Black Women - “The exposure that people get in intro to econ classes is to consider “all things equal,” assuming racism doesn’t exist and society is perfect. That’s what people are trained on. We need a more nuanced approach.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 28, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 21, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Episode 111: How “Small Business” Rhetoric Is Used to Protect Corporate America The Economy Is Reeling. The Tech Giants Spy Opportunity. The Allure of Simplicity - “Anyone who says they can explain what is going on with one single insight or in a single tweet thread or in a 2 minute “here’s one weird metric that explains everything”, that person is wrong.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 14, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 7, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
News Brief: Cops Push “Outside Agitator” Line, Exploit Real Fears of Far Right Violence to Delegitimize Protests Corporations tweet support for Black Lives Matter. Their FEC filings tell a different story. The activist dismantling racist police algorithms - “Algorithms have no place in policing. I think it’s crucial that we understand that there are lives at stake.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 31, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
It’s time to maintain Epistemic Humility—Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic - “If you want to reduce overconfidence in yourself or others, just ask: What are the reasons to think this claim may be mistaken? Under what conditions would this be wrong?”
Research reveals the scope of Google’s digital ecosystem dominance - “Earlier this year, Google announced plans to retire the third-party “cookie.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 24, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Episode 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist “Innovation” Behind the Big Tech antitrust backlash: A turning point for America Aiming for novelty in coronavirus coverage, journalists end up sensationalizing the trivial and untrue - “Yet the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how journalism’s traditional bias for novelty can result in front-page, top-of-the-broadcast news stories that are provably inaccurate, and even occasionally fictional.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 17, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 10, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 3, 2020
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
It’s Time To Learn “Even if prevention wasn’t possible, we could have had the supplies we needed. They were for sale. But someone has to decide it is worth keeping massive expensive inventories that are rarely used. A hospital owned by a corporation that wants to stay lean to keep profits high, is unlikely to do this.
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