The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Niall Ferguson 3 Stars – Half-Assed History from a Courtesan Niall Ferguson is neither Will Durant nor John Lewis Gaddis. He is far removed from Howard Zinn. He is, in effect, an intelligent idiot, a courtesan historian. While the book’s intent may remind one of Eric S. Raymond’s classic essay on “The Cathedral or the …
Belgian court orders Facebook to stop collecting data on citizens, threatens fines of up to $125mn In its ruling, the court determined that Facebook does not adequately inform users that it is collecting information. “Facebook informs us insufficiently about gathering information about us, the kind of data it collects, what it does with that data …
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet My previous article, The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, raised much more awareness than I thought it would. There are three promising things that can enable a reinvented internet:
…to discuss the future of democracy in the USA… BONUS Below the Fold: Johnson vs. Twitter Full Text
Three months in hell by Burcu Gültekin Punsmann What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin At the end of the ramp-up process, a moderator should handle approximately 1300 reports every day which let him/her in average only a few seconds to reach a decision for each report. The …
Facebook Couldn’t Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To. While Facebook is notorious for its endless piddling product tweaks, this one seems a substantive shift in strategic vision. It’s an unprecedented acknowledgment that Facebook’s core feature — News Feed — has not worked out at all the way it was intended. It was abused by …
Phi Beta Iota: What this innocuous announcement does not say is that the four rights that this group has been working on for over 20 years are the rights of Anonymity, Identity, Privacy, and Security, at the individual “you own your own data” level, and that they are therefore the anti-thesis to Amazon, Facebook, Google, …
