government Here's how many people are currently on government websites, according to the government Rob Beschizza

Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow

twitter Analyzing 800 daily tweets that say "Today was the day that Donald Trump became president" Cory Doctorow

twitter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reaches more people on Twitter than the press and establishment Democrats Cory Doctorow

Business Blame Big Data for CVS's endless miles of receipts Cory Doctorow

web theory Now that Trump's FCC has killed Net Neutrality, we all need to participate in instrumenting the net to document violations Cory Doctorow

politics A census of leading Italian politicians' Twitter followings finds a horde of zombies and bots Cory Doctorow

apple Apple's long-awaited podcast data-transparency reveals an ad-listening audience with no clear format-preferences Cory Doctorow

privacy Web analytics companies offer "replay sessions" that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users Cory Doctorow

movies Time to Statham Punch Rob Beschizza

Science Big Data Ethics: racially biased training data versus machine learning Cory Doctorow

corruption Ted Cruz campaign hires dirty data-miners who slurped up millions of Facebook users' data Cory Doctorow

art Disembodied mechanical random clickerfinger Cory Doctorow

movies Backrooms is a blockbuster Rob Beschizza

politics Investigator found 40 White House sites hidden behind one private Cloudflare gate Ellsworth Toohey

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