Geniale podcastaflevering: In the episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roger McNamee about his book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

PJ Van Leemputten heeft overschot van gelijk: Hoeveel transparanter zouden (politieke) advertenties zijn mochten we simpelweg weten welk individu ze plaatst of er de opdracht voor geeft? Maar dit viel me toch ook op: Die grote bedrijven halen hun informatie ook ergens. En ja, je zou bij een advertentie moeten kunnen zie wie daarvoor betaald […]

Leo Babauta: From this place, notice the other person — they are acting the way they’re acting because they are feeling some kind of pain themselves. Maybe they’re feeling insecure, anxious, worried about the future. Maybe they are hurt by something you did and are themselves lashing out in frustration. Well, you can understand that! […]

Arthur C. Brooks: To me, politics is like the weather — it changes a lot, people drone on about it constantly, and “good” is mostly subjective. I like winter, you like summer; you’re a liberal, I’m a conservative. (…) My passion is ideas, especially policy ideas. While politics is like the weather, ideas are like […]

Forbes: The point is that Pornhub is once again behaving better than more corporations these days, reaching out to our hearts and minds rather than just our genitals in order to bring awareness to something that is damaging this world. Natuurlijk kennen we het bedrijf niet 🤥, maar die hun marketing is toch echt van […]

NPR: In the past 20 years, psychologists and neurologists have started to look at how empathy actually works, in our brains and our hearts, when we’re not thinking about it. And one thing they’ve found is that “one of the strongest triggers for human empathy is observing some kind of conflict between two other parties,” […]

Recode: In a separate study still under review about how news stories are passed around the internet like a giant game of telephone, Melumad and her colleagues found that as stories get further from their initial source, people know fewer and fewer details about what actually happened. So they offer up their opinions instead.

New York Times’ Privacy Project: To demonstrate how easy it is to track people without their knowledge, we collected public images of people who worked near Bryant Park (available on their employers’ websites, for the most part) and ran one day of footage through Amazon’s commercial facial recognition service. Zotjes. Een systeem uitgerold op de […]