Sometimes the world is complex, but it doesn't have to be confusing. Eat a convention for breakfast.
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Joined April 2011
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Humaniki is now live at humanikidata.org! Read all about the new features that help you explore the human #gendergap on #wikipedia at diff.wikimedia.org/2021/03/1…. This is our first alpha, we welcome your bug-reports and feedback.
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I wrote this because I care so much.
Just in case you're still making new year's resolutions, here are six easy steps to becoming a better white person in 2020.
You're welcome: trib.al/EjD52VE
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Civil Servant Research summit, discussing possibilities of improving #Wikipedia and supporting the community with research. Including how to design a study and research ethics by @natematias
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I wrote about two books (Cal Newport's pragmatic Digital Minimalism & Jenny Odell's *phenomenal* How to Do Nothing) that try to teach you to put your phone down, and the hallucinatory brokenness revealed in me when I took their advice :) newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
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Busy is the New Stupid.
Don’t jump into meetings to sit there or talk randomly. Your colleagues will love you more if you:
1) Go to 1/3 of the meetings you are invited to.
2) Prepare for them (so that you can...)
3) Meaningfully contribute to them.
Free is the New Smart
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Fox News is refusing to air this segment where Tucker Carlson loses his temper after guest @rutgerbregman tells Carlson he's 'a millionaire funded by billionaires' during a blunt conversation about economic inequality. NowThis obtained the full interview.
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The distribution of baby names is very concentrated in the most popular names, but this is declining over time. More observations here: monicaalexander.com/2019/01/…
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Are you a government agency, non-profit or social good org that can use data science, AI, machine learning help? Apply as a project partner by Jan 31 for the Data Science for Social Good programs dssg.uchicago.edu/faq-for-ds…
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.@jts__twit and collaborators set out to explore bias in reputation systems for the gig economy - with surprising results. This #CSCW2018 work motivates compelling new hypotheses about race, gender and five-star rating scales. medium.com/acm-cscw/simulati…
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My new paper tries to identify some of what is lost as market-based "sharing economy" platforms increasing replace socially-oriented systems based on actual sharing: mako.cc/copyrighteous/what-w… (The paper was led by @notconfusing who will present it at @CSCW next month!)
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Expected number of surviving female relatives at different ages in Indonesia, Japan and Nigeria (work in progress w/ @P_Chung)
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Also, since Pokémon GO made me be self-promotional, make sure to come see my talk at @ACM_CSCW: "Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems" (jacob.thebault-spieker.com/p…) (w/ @OrigamiTeacher @notconfusing @halfak @bhecht @lorenterveen @jkonstan)
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I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page.
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What are the most cited sources in @Wikipedia? A new dataset of 15 million records, documenting all sources cited in Wikipedia by identifier across languages, has the answer.
Data: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.…
Blog: blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/0… #OpenCitationsMonth #opendata #altmetrics
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🤔 $TWTR users 📈 6%, revenue 📉 7.8%. 💫 RT if you support our proposal for @Twitter to fix things through democratic ownership. #BuyTwitter xitter.cf/globeandmail/status/85…
Twitter reports 6 per cent increase in monthly active users trib.al/5EE0oyw from @GlobeBusiness
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O’Reilly’s advertisers are out of excuses. After years of complicity, silence is not an option. colorofchange.org/press/2017… via @rashadrobinson
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Map: These car insurance companies quote higher prices in minority neighborhoods than in similarly risky white ones propub.li/2nJbA3q
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You nailed it. Period! xitter.cf/theonion/status/825546…
.@SeanSpicer's role in the Trump administration will be to provide the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation.
