Rogue P. Bigha📢
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All the President’s Memes
It’s disorienting enough that the president communicates using internet memes. It’s even stranger to consider that his policies might work the same way.
Rogue P. Bigha📢
memes, iteration, & evolution… "This incentive structure, in which an easily distracted person says a bunch of stuff he kind of means to an assembled audience, slowly learning what generates a reaction & what doesn’t is familiar: It’s like posting online"
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Bad UX is keeping hospital prices lists opaque despite new transparency law
We surveyed the websites of the top 115 largest hospitals in the US.
✈ FlightConnections.com - All flights worldwide on a flight map!
Flights from more than 600 airlines on an interactive flight map. Search, find and compare any flight path or airline route with our flight maps!
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I fly a lot. One site that I really like is flightconnections.com … when you're planning trips, especially complicated ones, or ones where you're trying to use miles or points or whatever else, super helpful to know full list of connects by day of the week.
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Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents following our legal action
Facebook’s own employees worried they were bamboozling children who racked up hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of dollars in game charges, documents show.
The Sexts of Jeff Bezos and the Death of Privacy
We can’t look away. But we should.
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“If the man who wants to put listening devices in everyone’s home doesn’t always know that everyone’s always watching, I don’t know who will…”
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Facebook's AR Glasses May Be Getting Closer to Becoming a Reality
Facebook is reportedly dumping resources into developing nifty new augmented reality hardware—but don’t put money on seeing its products anytime super soon.
Recent Breakthrough Research Papers In AI Ethics
2018 was a breakthrough year for AI ethics. Researchers, practitioners, and ethicists have sounded the alarm for years over potential malicious applications of AI technologies as well as unintended consequences from flawed or biased systems. The...
How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children
Ad-hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse.
The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree.
The bureau’s image unit has linked defendants to crime photographs for decades using unproven techniques and baseless statistics. Studies have begun to raise doubts about the unit’s methods.
Amber Alert: Teenage girl allegedly abducted from Penn Hills home
Penn Hills police are looking for 16-year-old Marjani Aquil, who they say is believed to have been abducted by her ex-boyfriend.
Big Win for Web Accessibility in Domino's Pizza Case
On January 15, 2019 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave a big win to digital accessibility in a case against Domino's Pizza. The lower court had ruled for Domino's and tossed the case out of court. The appeals court reversed, ruling that the...
Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and Google AI Lead, on behalf of the entire Google Research Community 2018 was an exciting year for Go...
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Rogue P. Bigha📢
read more in my new blog post:
"A Camera is Watching You in Your AirBnB: And, you consented to it" …
It's about my super weird, privacy-invading experience in an @Airbnb last week, & how Airbnb fails to understand disclosure :: jeffreybigham.com/blog/2019/who-… 2/n
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Rogue P. Bigha📢
I'll end with this hilarious (maybe scary) message my host sent me when he discovered I had unplugged his spy cameras… you'll have to read the article to find out what we were actually doing on New Year's Eve! n/n
jeffreybigham.com/blog/2019/who-… pic.twitter.com/7kn6AIbf2u
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Rogue P. Bigha📢
Update: Airbnb now says that their representatives were mistaken; this doesn't count as disclosure, and actually does violate their policies. They have refunded my stay.
Great. But, disappointing that it took a viral blog post.
More here
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'So many questions': Lawmakers respond to bombshell Trump, Russia reports
"Why is he so chummy with Vladimir Putin?" asked Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, adding, "I don't get it."
Rogue P. Bigha📢
history is going to think we're all incredibly stupid, given that trump has basically done absolutely nothing to hide anything. it's all out in the open, but the press is all like, "i don't know, trump says he didn't do it."
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This Secret Banking Account Pays 100 Times the Normal Interest Rate
This bank has no fees and pays up to 100 times the normal interest rate. Here’s why I signed up and my honest Aspiration bank review.
T.S.A. Agents Refuse to Work During Shutdown, Raising Fears of Airport Turmoil
Airport security screeners are opting out in rising numbers during the partial shutdown of the government and their absence is starting to put a strain on airports.