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context collapse Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable Cory Doctorow

empirical facewash Anyone who claims that machine learning will save money in high-stakes government decision-making is lying Cory Doctorow

daddy figures Study finds that people vote for strongman "dominance" leaders when they they feel out of control of their lives Cory Doctorow

bias Americans perceive overweight Asian people as 'less foreign' than skinny Asians Cory Doctorow

the stupid party Majority of Republicans think higher education is bad for America Cory Doctorow

hacker anthropology Limn 8: a social science journal issue devoted to hacking Cory Doctorow

ict People really, really suck at using computers Cory Doctorow

reproducibility Psychology's reproducibility crisis: why statisticians are publicly calling out social scientists Cory Doctorow

slave to fashion Bellwether: Connie Willis's classic, hilarious novel about the science of trendiness Cory Doctorow

collective action Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities: when science changes everything Cory Doctorow