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Prachige visualisaties van historische sportdata door Sam Vickars bij The Pudding.

Mooie en eerlijke round-up van heel wat reviews, door Michael Tsai. Na twee dagen kan ik bevestigen: het is de beste, zotste iPad ooit. Maar het blijft inderdaad iOS dat voorzien is op “een grote iPhone”. En de hardware is klaar om eerder “een alternatieve Mac” te zijn. Tijd voor Apple om iOS te splitsen, […]

Education Week: The hack started small, in 7th grade, when they bypassed their middle school’s internet filters to watch YouTube during lunch.  But by the time Jeremy Currier and Seth Stephens were caught, more than two years later, their exploits had given them extraordinary reign over the computer network of the Rochester Community Schools, a […]

Schoon gezegd door Obama, gequote door David Remnick in The New Yorker: Even in his exhaustion and bewilderment, Obama painted a picture of voting that was half hopeful. “I love the stillness and the mystery of the day or two before elections, because in a lot of ways everything goes radio-silent,” he said. “Nobody at […]

The Washington Post over de afgelopen Amerikaanse campagne: “All his bad characteristics get amplified when he’s in a crunch,” Murphy said. “He doesn’t have any allegiance to the truth or reality to begin with, so he’s drunk on crowds, in a corner and under great political pressure.” Waarom die druk? Should Democrats win the House […]

Eindelijk een medestander voor het idee dat ik al langer heb: een nationaal onderzoeksinstituut voor algorithmes. De Britse wiskundige Hannah Fry schreef een boek erover en bij Nautilus deed ze een interview: It has to be a government, really, that does this. It has to be government that analyzes this stuff on our behalf and […]

Buzzfeed: If memetic and information warfare are a game, that means you can win. And winning can translate into something that feels like real power. The claim that 4chan “memed a president into existence” isn’t just a catchphrase; it’s a line on a résumé.