Sharing Content During Conflicts and Wars
Due to Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, videos and images of the war have been shared widely on social media. This brings up multiple related… Read More »Sharing Content During Conflicts and Wars
Due to Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, videos and images of the war have been shared widely on social media. This brings up multiple related… Read More »Sharing Content During Conflicts and Wars
The Tracker Radar from DuckDuckGo is an awesome project – for those not familiar with it, it’s a comprehensive list of organizations that maintain tracking… Read More »Working with DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar
A couple weeks ago, I pushed Trapper Keeper out the door. Trapper Keeper is a collection of tools that I’ve been using for years to… Read More »Trapper Keeper, Now With Actual Documentation
tl;dr I am releasing a collection of scripts to support Open Content creation, and other forms of online research. The code is available under an… Read More »The Trapper Keeper Has Left the Building
It’s human nature to try and reduce things down to a binary – a yes/no, either/or – but reality tends to be more both/and with… Read More »Reducing Risk Is Not the Same as Remote Learning
tl;dr Disproving every lie that is embedded in misinformation is time consuming and exhausting, and prevents us from talking about the things that matter to… Read More »Fighting Misinformation: Debunk and Disengage
Free speech is not consequence-free speech. If you say hateful things and people respond to the hateful things you are saying, you are not being… Read More »On Dogwhistles, or Putting a Pin in This
tl;dr I’ve been working on extracting text from the released pdfs of the Facebook Papers. The cleaned pdfs, the extracted text and the code used… Read More »Making Text from the Facebook Papers More Accessible
I’ve been meaning to move to a different mobile provider for years, but the story about how AT&T supports – and continues to support –… Read More »Moving Off AT&T
Since The Markup reporters Lauren Kirchner and Emmanuel Martinez released their story on bias in mortgage algorithms, I’ve been digging into the data behind their… Read More »Mortgage Data, and Working with Large Datasets