What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 10, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: E908: Roger McNamee, early Facebook investor & author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” shares early days mentoring Zuck, the destructive power of persuasive tech, the Russian plan to subvert American democracy, & Beyond Facebook: Big Tech’s dystopian surveillance, data collection & what we can do about it – PART 1 E909: Part 2! [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 3, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The Trauma Floor The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - “The moderators told me it’s a place where the conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually lead them to embrace fringe views. One auditor walks the floor promoting the idea that the Earth is flat. A former employee told me he has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 24, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: YouTube Continues To Promote Anti-Vax Videos As Facebook Prepares To Fight Medical Misinformation - “There’s always been asymmetry of passion on social platforms: The most compelling content is the most sensational” How Big a Problem Is It That a Few Shareholders Own Stock in So Many Competing Companies? Ad code ‘slows down’ browsing speeds - “About 60% of the total loading time of a page was caused by scripts that place adverts or analyse what users do” [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 10, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The best defense against deepfake AI might be . . . blinking - “Healthy adult humans blink somewhere between every 2 and 10 seconds, and a single blink takes between one-tenth and four-tenths of a second. That’s what would be normal to see in a video of a person talking. But it’s not what happens in many deepfake videos. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 3, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them - “If Facebook makes full use of the level of access they are given by asking users to install the Certificate, they will have the ability to continuously collect the following types of data: private messages in social media apps, chats from in instant messaging apps – including photos/videos sent to others, emails, web searches, web browsing activity, and even ongoing location information by tapping into the feeds of any location tracking apps you may have installed. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on January 20, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Facebook’s ‘10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right? - While I’m not sure the data would actually be used, due to the reasons mentioned in the article, it is a good thing that these questions are being asked. The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree. - I wonder how many people are in prison based on unreliable forensic methods. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on January 6, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The 30-Year Mortgage is an Intrinsically Toxic Product - “A realistic summary of the American housing finance ecosystem is that most of it has been socialized: while we spend some money on public housing for the poor, we invest vastly more in hybrid public-private housing for the middle class; the capitalist part is what happens if your house goes up in price, and the socialist part is what happens if it doesn’t. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on December 30, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: What We Can Learn About Online Privacy From Climate Change How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus - Crazy how something with so little scientific backing became commonplace in courts. “The paper showed that the hypotheses that underpin bloodstain-pattern analysis remained largely untested. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on December 9, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - “Afforded a choice, low-curiosity individuals opt for familiar evidence consistent with what they already believe; high-curiosity citizens, in contrast, prefer to explore novel findings, even if that information implies that their group’s position is wrong. Consuming a richer diet of information, high-curiosity citizens predictably form less one-sided and hence less polarized views. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on December 2, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother Did a Rave Review Really Shut Down Portland Burger Bar Stanich’s? Maybe It Was the Owner’s Legal Troubles - Turns out that “I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.” story from a few weeks ago was missing some important details. How Instagram hides behind Facebook – and rakes in billions - With all the negative press around Facebook people seem to forget they own Instagram. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 25, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: You Are Not So Smart Podcast - Not A Scientist - You often hear politicians say “I’m not a scientist but …” as a way to get around saying something ignorant. Why do we never hear them do the same about economics, tax policy or many other topics where they aren’t knowledgeable? The easiest way to get people to go against the established science is to come up with an explanation that is really simple (that’s probably wrong) that gets an emotional response. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 18, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: How to Teach Artificial Intelligence Some Common Sense You Realize The Olympics Don’t Have To Exist, Right? I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It. Thinking Fast and Slow - I read this book several years ago and just read it again. One thing I did notice this time through was some of the studies mentioned in the book are ones that I have read about being not reproducible. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 11, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning - “Imagine, for example, an airport security system that won’t let you board your flight because your face is confused with that of a criminal, or a self-driving car that, because of unusual lighting conditions, fails to notice that you are about to cross the street.” Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results - “Crowdsourcing data analysis, a strategy in which numerous research teams are recruited to simultaneously investigate the same research question, makes transparent how defensible, yet subjective, analytic choices influence research results” [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 4, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: This Is How We Radicalized The World Why big companies squander brilliant ideas - “Disruption describes what happens when firms fail because they keep making the kinds of choices that made them successful.” “Dominant organisations are prone to stumble when the new technology requires a new organisational structure. An innovation might be radical but, if it fits the structure that already existed, an incumbent firm has a good chance of carrying its lead from the old world to the new. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on October 28, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: No, A.I. Won’t Solve the Fake News Problem Older People Are Worse Than Young People at Telling Fact from Opinion - It’s scary how few people could correctly identify all the statements as facts or opinions. Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme - Ad fraud is very underreported topic. [Read More]
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