Regarding this NYT story from this weekend, imagine you are a FBI Agent working Russian counterintelligence in 2016 and you witness the following: https://t.co/uajSa5sfuX | Continue reading

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The most depressing research paper of 2018? "The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring" (Quadlin 2018, ASR). This is a correspondence study showing that women are penalized in job searches for having good university grades. https://t.co/3Vec7QZFRq | Continue reading

Just read some of this memoir by the 1st daughter of Steve Jobs, whom he neglected, & some of her mom's memoir. Both take different approaches & neither demonizes him--no sour grapes--but they're both so sad for what they illuminate about him, & the women's status &am … | Continue reading

Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his core voters, who want to watch it all burn anyway. In this thread I describe the danger I see. 1/ | Continue reading

"Steve and I different over how there following facts should be interpreted." Everyone in the room can't wait for the presentations to end so that we can hear Steve Ruggles and John Abowd discuss the key issues directly. Great #ASSA2019 session chaired by @bencasselman. | Continue reading

Everyone loves SpaceX, and thinks of Elon as the genius founder that invents new types of rockets that are cheaper, faster, more efficient.It's fun to think of it as SpaceX versus NASA, or Silicon Valley vs Aerospace.But let's talk about D&I, and logs. Logs as in timber.
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I wanted to share a little bit more about why I’m so excited to join the Square team. Square has a purpose that I feel to my core: My parents are the small business owners for whom Square advocates. | Continue reading

A couple years ago, when I was writing for American Dad!, I needed an Arabic speaker for a small part. Our casting director recommended a Saudi comedian, who happened to be in LA for a couple months shooting a tv show. His name is Fahad Albutairi. | Continue reading

1/ A short rant on the deficit & Modern Monetary Theory. MMT states that since the US can print as much $ as it wants, it can never go bankrupt and deficits are generally not important. Thus, the US should run significant deficits to maximize productive capacity. All good so … | Continue reading

Know more about you computer.Thread.Ctrl+A - Select AllCtrl+B - BoldCtrl+C - Copy Ctrl+D - Fill DownCtrl+F - FindCtrl+G - GotoCtrl+H - ReplaceCtrl+I - ItalicCtrl+K - Insert HyperlinkCtrl+N - New WorkbookCtrl+O - OpenCtrl+P - PrintCtrl+R - Fill RightCtrl+S - Save | Continue reading

10 Product Predictions for 2019:1. Instagram will become a full fledged e-commerce destination by launching the IG marketplace for buying clothes, furniture, consumer electronics, and cars. Payments will eventually be powered by the Facebook stablecoin amongst other options. | Continue reading

Not “rules” by any means...but tendencies 1/10. We underestimate the amount of work we actually have in progress and the impact on flow, quality, value delivered...and overestimate the value of parallelizing work #proddev #kanban #flow | Continue reading

In 1985, US department stores took 14.5% of all retail spend. Last year they took 4.3%. The figure is still falling. The internet is often blamed for this. But the blunt truth is that US department stores just aren’t very good retailers. In fact, most of them are abysmal. | Continue reading

I think it’s time for me to tell my full story. It might lose me some followers but so be it. | Continue reading

Four years ago on new years eve, I set out to build for myself a robust habit of habit engineering. Looking back, doing this has been very transformative for me. A thread 👇 | Continue reading

Merry Christmas everyone, let's talk about SimCity on the NES. Today we published the results of about a year of research on this unreleased Nintendo work, and uploaded relevant files - including the game - to the Internet Archive. You should take a look! https://t.co/HmvWYy3sXy … | Continue reading

For 4 days, I captured more 700K tweets with the words "gilets jaunes" or the hashtags #GiletsJaunes.In this thread, we will see how #bots, a #QAnon lover and a "French" #AntiSioniste try to amplify the movement of the Yellow Vests🔽🔽🔽 https://t.co/3G4Xc9MR … | Continue reading

The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users. https://t.co/sfmdrxGBNJ https … | Continue reading

We're being presented with a false choice re Facebook/social media. It's reflexive control, and it's an old (but still relevant and effective) Soviet tactic. The false choice is "paid service, or nothing at all." | Continue reading

Amazon's Ring dominates the growing video doorbell market. But little is known about the company's secretive R&D lab in Kiev, Ukraine. Here's the story of how customer video footage is sent there for image recognition purposes, despite internal concerns. https://t.co/wQn1MQCO … | Continue reading

In the last year, we have had three papers with collaborators accepted related to machine learning in medical diagnosis. The first discusses use cases; the second focuses on medical ultrasound, and the third on data engineering. What have we learned in the last two years? | Continue reading

Local journalism 2018 in review -- in every corner of the U.S. this year, local reporters went to work every day looking to expose wrongdoing in their communities. Here’s just some of what they found: | Continue reading

I have no special insight into the latest FB API issue, but I will use this opportunity to discuss the difference between a "traditional breach" and an information leak from an API, and what that means for disclosure. https://t.co/mpC54GA6zM | Continue reading