Kelvy Bird has had a go at visualising the Australian bushfire crisis.
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Ben Collins collates a number of productivity tips in a thread. A great entry point to Sheets and Collins’ work.
In a Twitter thread, Cormac Farrell shares his perspective on the current bushfire crisis and why the Greens are not to blame.
So in over ten years of upgrading bushfire infrastructure I have never been stopped from implementing life safety.
These people telling you about the all-powerful greenies are generally two things:
– climate denying bullshit artists
– after something else (land clearing etc) pic.twitter.com/FfwV3al8ex— Cormac Farrell (@jagungal1) January 3, 2020
Arvind Narayanan responds to research which finds that YouTube is actually de-radicalising. He raises concern with the methodology.
The answer: they didn’t! They reached their sweeping conclusions by analyzing YouTube *without logging in*, based on sidebar recommendations for a sample of channels (not even the user’s home page because, again, there’s no user). Whatever they measured, it’s not radicalization.
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) December 29, 2019
He explains that we neither have the tools and vocabulary to make sense of such complexities.
In our data-driven world, the claim that we don’t have a good way to study something quantitatively may sound shocking. The reality even worse — in many cases we don’t even have the vocabulary to ask meaningful quantitative *questions* about complex socio-technical systems.
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) December 29, 2019
The greatest challenge is the reality that YouTube and the algorithm are one and the same.
Consider the paper’s definition of radicalization: "YouTube’s algorithm [exposes users] to more extreme content than they would otherwise." Savvy readers are probably screaming: There is no "otherwise"! There is no YouTube without the algorithm! There is no neutral!
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) December 29, 2019
Huge congratulations Fiona.
This makes me feel like there is still hope 🙂
If they closed it for dust, you may never be open?
2/ And for all the handwringers, there are (& have always been) homes where there are no books, papers or magazines. Are devices not one way that these children are now exposed to text? I’m not a fan of uncritical embrace of technology in schls but some more balance wld be good
— Linda J. Graham (@drlindagraham) November 11, 2019