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Journalistiek: Op Amerikaanse redacties zijn journalisten in protest gekomen tegen slappe ‘enerzijds, anderzijds’-berichtgeving over racisme. Maar wat is die veel gesmade objectiviteit?
Crime-prediction technology reproduces injustices & causes real harm
Pavlina Tcherneva talks about "The Case for a Job Guarantee," and how public-sector work can pull us out of crises both immediate and long-term.
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From big cities to tiny towns, librarians are getting scrappy to meet the need
Nederland overleefde per decreet de coronacrisis. Toen het kabinet een wettelijke basis wilde geven aan alle vergaande maatregelen, ontwierp het haastig een blauwdruk voor een gezondheidsdictatuur. Politiek dagboek over een politiek-bestuurlijke klasse die de essentie van democratie uit het oog is verloren.
Na de dood van mijn moeder had ik rouwhaast: ik wilde dat mijn verdriet snel voorbij was. We denken vaak dat rouw in opeenvolgende fasen verloopt, met aanvaarding als eindpunt, maar de wetenschap laat ons zien: rouw is nooit klaar.
Duitsland: In Duitsland is een debat opgelaaid over de vraag: was Immanuel Kant, de filosoof van de Verlichting, een racist?
Our obsession with racist attitudes can obscure the fact that racism is a system, devised to justify slavery, with a hierarchy that still defines the value of our lives today – that’s why you can be racist without being a racist.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
Around 2 billion people in 60 countries are able to use the internet securely and without risks of being surveilled or censored. And all of this, thanks to the work done by a non-profit called Open Tech Fund (OTF) for only 15 million dollars a year. However, all of this may be over soon. WTF …
Image from Pixabay (woman looking away from laptop that has hearts coming out of it)About that obsession you’ve got with students turning on their cameras during class. I understand why you&#…
Werk: Woensdag begint de gemeente Groningen met de basisbaan, voor mensen die geen reguliere baan kunnen krijgen.
OS X is retired, but fortunately, its legacy appears to live on in macOS 11.0.
Learn how to plan your day to increase your productivity, achieve your long-term goals, and make time for the things that matter.
Google and Apple forced governments to follow tighter privacy standards for coronavirus contact-tracing apps. This sounds like good news, but it also reveals our dependency on Big Tech.
Onderwijsinstellingen zien zich geconfronteerd met een dilemma: hoe borgen ze publieke waarden?
Basecamp’s new paid email service, HEY, has been making headlines recently in a very public fight with Apple over their App Store terms of service. Just as the service was launching, the HEY developers found the new release of the app—which included important security fixes—was held up over a...
Triage: Wie het principe van ‘fair innings’ uit het nooddraaiboek voor de intensieve zorg afwijst, verwerpt ook het uitgangspunt van menselijke gelijkwaardigheid, meent rechtsfilosoof Roland Pierik.
Triage: Wie het principe van ‘fair innings’ uit het nooddraaiboek voor de intensieve zorg afwijst, verwerpt ook het uitgangspunt van menselijke gelijkwaardigheid, meent rechtsfilosoof Roland Pierik.
The so-called BlueLeaks collection includes internal memos, financial records, and more from over 200 state, local, and federal agencies.
Google en Apple bepalen nu de voorwaarden waaronder overheden een corona-app met bluetooth kunnen gebruiken. Misschien is dat niet zo’n goed idee.
Who are K-pop fans? It’s a question that not a lot of people bothered to ask until lately. But that seems to be changing in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests across the world: K pop fans flooded the Dallas Police Department’s iWatch Dallas app with fancams and took over the hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter on Twitter with anti-racist messages. BTS fans raised $1 million in just over a day for organizatio...
Joppe Hovius: infectioloogIn één op de drie Nederlandse teken zit een ziekteverwekker. Infectioloog Joppe Hovius werkt aan een vaccin, gericht tegen de teek.
An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica:
To some extent, every Internet user leaves a digital trail. So when a masked arsonist was seen on video setting fire to a police car on the day of a recent protest in Philadelphia, the fact that her face was hidden didn't prevent a Federal Bureau of Investiga...
To some extent, every Internet user leaves a digital trail. So when a masked arsonist was seen on video setting fire to a police car on the day of a recent protest in Philadelphia, the fact that her face was hidden didn't prevent a Federal Bureau of Investiga...
I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken)
Drie oplossingen: De coronacrisis is een kans om de maatschappij schokbestendiger te maken, zeggen systeemonderzoekers Alex Pentland (MIT) en Dirk Helbing (TU Delft). Dat betekent: minder top-down, digitaler en lokaler. „Als we deze mogelijkheid niet grijpen, komt er een nóg grotere crisis.”
Drie oplossingen: De coronacrisis is een kans om de maatschappij schokbestendiger te maken, zeggen systeemonderzoekers Alex Pentland (MIT) en Dirk Helbing (TU Delft). Dat betekent: minder top-down, digitaler en lokaler. „Als we deze mogelijkheid niet grijpen, komt er een nóg grotere crisis.”
Drie oplossingen: De coronacrisis is een kans om de maatschappij schokbestendiger te maken, zeggen systeemonderzoekers Alex Pentland (MIT) en Dirk Helbing (TU Delft). Dat betekent: minder top-down, digitaler en lokaler. „Als we deze mogelijkheid niet grijpen, komt er een nóg grotere crisis.”
Drie oplossingen: De coronacrisis is een kans om de maatschappij schokbestendiger te maken, zeggen systeemonderzoekers Alex Pentland (MIT) en Dirk Helbing (TU Delft). Dat betekent: minder top-down, digitaler en lokaler. „Als we deze mogelijkheid niet grijpen, komt er een nóg grotere crisis.”
Drie oplossingen: De coronacrisis is een kans om de maatschappij schokbestendiger te maken, zeggen systeemonderzoekers Alex Pentland (MIT) en Dirk Helbing (TU Delft). Dat betekent: minder top-down, digitaler en lokaler. „Als we deze mogelijkheid niet grijpen, komt er een nóg grotere crisis.”
Drie oplossingen: De coronacrisis is een kans om de maatschappij schokbestendiger te maken, zeggen systeemonderzoekers Alex Pentland (MIT) en Dirk Helbing (TU Delft). Dat betekent: minder top-down, digitaler en lokaler. „Als we deze mogelijkheid niet grijpen, komt er een nóg grotere crisis.”
Interview: Het Europees Parlement heeft een motie aangenomen van PvdA-Europarlementariër Paul Tang om persoonlijke advertenties te verbieden. „Mensen hebben het recht om dingen te doen zonder dat de buitenwereld daar weet van heeft.”
Lang deed schrijver Johan Fretz zijn best om zichzelf voor te houden dat híj van racisme geen last had. 'Wilde ik mijn kleur ontkennen? Als ik eerlijk ben: ja. Ik wilde wit zijn, of in elk geval geruisloos opgaan in de witte wereld waar ik me in bewoog.'
Their CEOs have pledged support for reform amid the George Floyd protests—while their lawyers are fighting to preserve law enforcement’s advantage in court.
Your inbox should be no place for prying eyes.
Regardless of your opinion about Google, their suite of collaborative document editing tools provides a powerful resource in this tumultuous time. Across the country, grassroots groups organizing mutual aid relief work in response to COVID-19 and legal aid as part of the recent wave of protests...
Contractor Accenture has added 48 minutes to the shifts of many moderators in North America.
iFixit has built a comprehensive online database of repair manuals for ventilators and medical equipment to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Last week it received a letter claiming copyright infringement.
De Amerikaanse predikant en burgenrechtenactivist Jesse Jackson vraagt in een open brief aan minister-president Mark Rutte om Zwarte Piet te verbieden. In de brief, die in handen is van de Kanttekening, zegt Jackson (78) dat hij door Barryl Biekman van het Landelijk Platform Slavernijverleden op de recente persconferentie van Mark Rutte is geattendeerd. Rutte zei …
Henk Jan Beltman, directeur van Tony's Chocolonely, is vanochtend opgepakt wegens het
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy.
When Adrian Brandon starts to color a portrait, he sets a timer. For his rendering of Breonna Taylor, the clock is set to 26 minutes—for George Floyd, 46 minutes, for Tony McDade, 38, and for Aiyana Stanley Jones, just seven. "When the alarm sounds, I am hit with a wave of emotions ranging from ange
Automated moderation can be a blunt instrument – as users trying to post an image of Aboriginal men in chains discovered
Firm aims to double number of registered voters of previous drives and prevent ‘malicious’ interference
Lockdown proved that self-guided learning is a viable alternative to traditional classrooms. If that’s the future, I can’t wait.
An exclusive investigation reveals that Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women, shaping the behavior of content creators and the worldview of 140 millions Europeans in what remains a blind spot of EU regulations.
A guide to where the biggest risks lie as lockdowns ease
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
Six former senior employees set out to terrorize a couple for publishing an online newsletter unfavorable to the company
In Latvia we wanted to harness smartphone technology for contact tracing. We ran into a Silicon Valley-built brick wall, says Ieva Ilves, an adviser to the Latvian president
Politie in de poëzie: het bestaat. Toenmalig Dichter des Vaderlands Esther Naomi Perquin ging in 2017 op stap met de politie en schreef er gedichten over. In de bundel ‘Lange armen’ lees je over een wereld vol ongelukken, vermiste kinderen, verslaving, geweld. En over de wanhoop van agenten die lijken rond te lopen op een filmset zonder script en zonder tekst – en die niet bij machte zijn mensen…
Decentralization Off The Shelf is a collective effort to further the adoption of decentralized technologies by providing open tooling and resources for the community.
<p>It circulates every few weeks on social media, and gets thousands of shares each time—often when a news outlet has announced layoffs or losses. Why, someone asks, has the journalism industry still not made it possible to pay a few cents to read a single article, instead of buying a subscription? There are many sites, […]</p>
Het laatste nieuws over privacy en vrijheid.
What if no one comes?
The fashion industry makes huge profits from the exploitation of black and brown women. Now is the time to call it out
Nextdoor wants to be the premier neighborhood social network, but people of color don’t feel safe on it.
EDIT: Mean and standard deviation of individidual predictions can be found here.
Thanks to all my brave assessors, I now have the data about Kurzweil's 1999
predictions about 2019.
This was a follow up to a previous assessment about his predictions about 2009,
which showed a mixed bag. Roughly evenly divided between right and wrong, which
I found pretty good for ten-year predictions:
So, did more time allow for trends to overcome noise or more ways to go wrong?
Pause for a moment to calibrate your expectations.
METHODS AND THANKS
So, for the 2019 predictions, I divided them into 105 separate statements, did a
call for volunteers, with instructions here; the main relevant point being that
I wanted their assessment for 2019, not for the (possibly transient) current
situation. I got 46 volunteers with valid email addresses, of which 34 returned
their predictions. So many thanks, in reverse alphabetical order, to Zvi
Mowshowitz, Zhengdong Wang, Yann Riviere, Uriel Fiori, orthonormal, Nuño
Sempere, Nathan Armishaw, Koen Holtman, Keller Scholl, Jaime Sevilla, Gareth
McCaughan, Eli Rose and Dillon Plunkett, Daniel Kokotajlo, Anna Gardiner... and
others who have chosen to remain anonymous.
THE RESULTS
Enough background; what did the assessors find? Well, of the 34 assessors, 24
went the whole hog and did all 105 predictions; on average, 91 predictions were
assessed by each person, a total of 3078 individual assessments[1].
So, did more time allow for more perspective or more ways to go wrong? Well,
Kurzweil's predictions for 2019 were considerably worse than those for 2009,
with more than half strongly wrong:
INTERESTING DETAILS
The (anonymised) data can be found here[2], and I encourage people to download
and assess it themselves. But some interesting results stood out to me:
PREDICTOR AGREEMENT
Taking a single prediction, for instance the first one:
* 1: Computers are now largely invisible. They are embedded everywhere--in
walls, tables, chairs, desks, c
Thanks to all my brave assessors, I now have the data about Kurzweil's 1999
predictions about 2019.
This was a follow up to a previous assessment about his predictions about 2009,
which showed a mixed bag. Roughly evenly divided between right and wrong, which
I found pretty good for ten-year predictions:
So, did more time allow for trends to overcome noise or more ways to go wrong?
Pause for a moment to calibrate your expectations.
METHODS AND THANKS
So, for the 2019 predictions, I divided them into 105 separate statements, did a
call for volunteers, with instructions here; the main relevant point being that
I wanted their assessment for 2019, not for the (possibly transient) current
situation. I got 46 volunteers with valid email addresses, of which 34 returned
their predictions. So many thanks, in reverse alphabetical order, to Zvi
Mowshowitz, Zhengdong Wang, Yann Riviere, Uriel Fiori, orthonormal, Nuño
Sempere, Nathan Armishaw, Koen Holtman, Keller Scholl, Jaime Sevilla, Gareth
McCaughan, Eli Rose and Dillon Plunkett, Daniel Kokotajlo, Anna Gardiner... and
others who have chosen to remain anonymous.
THE RESULTS
Enough background; what did the assessors find? Well, of the 34 assessors, 24
went the whole hog and did all 105 predictions; on average, 91 predictions were
assessed by each person, a total of 3078 individual assessments[1].
So, did more time allow for more perspective or more ways to go wrong? Well,
Kurzweil's predictions for 2019 were considerably worse than those for 2009,
with more than half strongly wrong:
INTERESTING DETAILS
The (anonymised) data can be found here[2], and I encourage people to download
and assess it themselves. But some interesting results stood out to me:
PREDICTOR AGREEMENT
Taking a single prediction, for instance the first one:
* 1: Computers are now largely invisible. They are embedded everywhere--in
walls, tables, chairs, desks, c