What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 28, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Chris Arnade on Dignity ESPN Backs Itself Into a Corner - “ESPN clearly believes in the notion that sports should be a refuge for fans. But unfortunately, sports don’t take place in some alternate universe where real problems can’t interfere. The only people who comfortably pretend sports is just an escape are those who don’t have to worry about being told to go back to where they came from.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 21, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Bias Inside: A Conversation With Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt What does it mean to be working class in Canada? - “Put bluntly: if living the same life as your parents and everyone you grew up around is somehow a failure, how are you supposed to feel about that? How are they supposed to feel about that?
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 14, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt - “Across the country, defendants who have not been convicted of a crime are put on “offender funded” payment plans for monitors that sometimes cost more than their bail. And unlike bail, they don’t get the payment back, even if they’re found innocent.” Basically, people are being put in jail for being poor.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on July 7, 2019
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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 30, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. - “If our senators couldn’t understand that Facebook makes money through selling advertising, how can we ever hope they’ll understand the technical realities and limitations of A.I.? With potentially tens of millions of jobs in the balance, “A.I.” will become whatever the highest paid lobbying firm convinces our politicians it is.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 23, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Most Popular Kids’ Video Site in the World Isn’t for Kids - “Four people at Google privately admitted that they don’t let their kids watch YouTube unsupervised and said the sentiment was widespread at the company. One of these people said frustration with YouTube has grown so much that some have suggested the division spin off altogether to preserve Google’s brand.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 16, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer How Misinformation Can Spread Among Scientists - “Worse, once they find an action they all agree on, they will keep performing that action regardless of any new evidence. They will do this even if all the scientists come to believe something else is actually better, because no one is willing to buck the consensus.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 9, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Canadian Conservatives Are Having a Bad Time at the Online Hate Hearings I left the ad industry because our use of data tracking terrified me - “I realized that my industry had changed. Advertising had ceased to be about connecting with consumers—it was now about finding novel ways of extracting evermore personal information from computers, phones, and smart homes.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 2, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
David Epstein on Mastery, Specialization, and Range Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests - Hopefully we can do more studies like this.
Cops Around The Country Are Posting Racist And Violent Comments On Facebook - “This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 26, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices - “How long before other devices start behaving as spies and taskmasters in our own home? Will the coffee maker let us have that seventh cup that the doctor advised us against?”
Who will answer the Christchurch Call? Nobody, if tech platforms continue ungoverned - “If we believe in the premise that society should be able to leverage public data for the public good, citizens should have far greater rights over the use, mobility and monetization of their data, and regulation must be matched with meaningful enforcement.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 19, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Best Reason for Your City to Ban Facial Recognition A Multimillion-Dollar Startup Hid A Sexual Harassment Incident By Its CEO — Then A Community of Outsiders Dragged It Into the Light - “the perception of accountability is more important than accountability itself”
Inside the mysteries and missteps of Toronto’s smart-city dream - Whenever I see the term “smart city” all I think is mass surveillance.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 12, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
IT runs on Java 8 - “What I’m worried about is that places like Hacker News, r/programming, the tech press, and conferences expose us to a number of tech-forward biases about our industry that are overenthusiastic about the promises of new technology without talking about tradeoffs. That the loudest voices get the most credibility, and, that, as a result, we are listening to complicated set-ups and overengineering systems of distributed networking and queues and serverless and microservices and machine learning platforms that our companies don’t need, and that most other developers that pick up our work can’t relate to, or can even work with.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 5, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Canada’s new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again - “Such tools are already being marketed for use in hiring employees, for detecting shoppers’ moods and predicting criminal behavior. Unless they are properly regulated, in the near future we could be hired, fired, granted or denied insurance, accepted to or rejected from college, rented housing and extended or denied credit based on facts that are inferred about us.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on April 28, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. - “We can frame this the opposite way, too: Filters designed to target ISIS overban, but mostly affect people without the political leverage to make this awkward for the company.” - https://twitter.com/normative/status/1121459735444762625 When it comes to Nikola Jokic, we’re all biased - I’m breaking my rule of not listing basketball content because the ideas in this article can be applied to pretty much anything.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on April 21, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
YouTube Flagged The Notre Dame Fire As Misinformation And Then Started Showing People An Article About 9/11 - Maybe the algorithms are the problem not the solution
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook - “The message also highlighted another of the company’s original sins: its assertion that if you just give people better tools for sharing, the world will be a better place.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on April 14, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
A.I. Is Changing Insurance - Before giving away personal data you should ask yourself how it could be used against you. Lots of data you can’t control is already being used against you.
Health The Passion Paradox: A Conversation with Brad Stulberg Why Do Smart People Believe Dumb Things? A trek into Bro Science, diets, vitamin cocktails, and other fads - The Dunning Kruger Effect.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on April 7, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Rise in cashless payments stokes concerns over data security Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet - “Four recent studies found that older Americans are more likely to consume and share false online news than those in other age groups, even when controlling for factors such as partisanship.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on March 31, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
How malevolent machine learning could derail AI - “Another project involved modifying road signs with a few innocuous-looking stickers to fool the computer vision systems used in many vehicles. In a video demo, Song showed how the car could be tricked into thinking that a stop sign actually says the speed limit is 45 miles per hour.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on March 24, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here’s How. How the Rich Really Play, “Who Wants To Be An Ivy Leaguer?” YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Has a Dark Side - “YouTube’s algorithms will push whatever they deem engaging, and it appears they have figured out that wild claims, as well as hate speech and outrage peddling, can be particularly so.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on March 17, 2019
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| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Amy Webb on Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, and the Big Nine The Modern Trap of Turning Hobbies Into Hustles - “We don’t have to monetize or optimize or organize our joy. Hobbies don’t have to be imbued with a purpose beyond our own enjoyment of them. They, alone, can be enough.”
YANSS 149 – Expert advice on how health experts can better provide good health advice to combat bad health advice from non-experts True crime is popular.
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