This article from The New Yorker dives into the longstanding content moderation troubles at Facebook. At heart is the difficulty of balancing a platform that values “free speech,” on the …
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself
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Twitter Apologizes for Racist Image-Cropping Algorithm
This news article published in The Guardian covers Twitter’s response to a racist image cropping algorithm that automatically focused on White faces over Black ones. The article notes that Twitter …
What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?
This fascinating article from The New Yorker profiles Marietje Schaake, a former member of the European Parliament and currently the international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. The article …
Silicon Valley’s cocaine problem shaped racist tech
If ever there was a white paradise, it was Silicon Valley in the 1980s. We called them geniuses and wizards. Inventors and entrepreneurs. Industry titans, and even a few free-thinking …
A Matter of Time: A Brief History of Time Series in R and Beyond | Meetup
About the Talk: Time series are everywhere, and fundamentally different than all other data. To effectively work with these series demands highly specialized tools–as dates, times, notation, calendars, time zones, …
The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism
This lucidly written essay shuttles between the emergence of the Gutenberg press and the rise of Facebook, compelling a reflection on the enduring and contradictory ways in which print and …
Problems with Python? The Python Users’ Group is Here to Help!
Guess what, everyone? The Python Users’ Group (or PUG) is back in action starting on Tuesday, February 20th for another great semester! PUG is a bi-weekly, open, and informal opportunity …
GCDI and Comp Sci Visualization Seminar: Computational Data Analysis
What is computational data analysis? Any analysis done via computer. If that seems absurdly broad, that’s because it is. Data is itself a broad catch all for any collection of …
Theorizing Psychological Dynamics of Digital Culture
I recently attended the Transmediale: Festival for Media Art and Digital Culture at the beautiful Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin, which rather than a traditional single-themed disciplinary conference, organized …
How to Get Started with Python
Hello, so you’re interested in Python but a little bit befuddled about where to start. I’ve been teaching and programming in Python for forever and so I’m going to share …
