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Writing in MIT Tech Review, Samuel Woolley and Jacob Gursky take a deep dive into the data-gathering in the apps from the Trump and Biden campaigns. It's quite a study in contrasts!

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-data-hungry-invasive-app-is-a-voter-surveillance-tool-of-extraordinary-scope/

The Trump campaign is like Cambridge Analytica Mark II: invasive even by the standards of 2020, with Bluetooth access so your movements can be tracked by sleazy data-brokers, as well as endless-scroll propaganda channels to feed white nationalists' grievance complexes.

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European Climate Foundation: Neue EU-Klimaziele machbar – mit deutlich weniger Fleisch und Abgasen - Die EU will CO2-Emissionen deutlicher senken – mit weitreichenden Folgen für Verbraucher, Industrie und Landwirtschaft. Nur so, sagt eine Studie, werde das Ziel erreicht. https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2020-06/european-climate-foundation-eu-klimaziele-2030-machbar-grosse-muehe

"Precarity is obviously bad for the people who experience it, but it is also bad more generally for the academic system. The excessive competition it generates encourages bad practices and discourages long-term creative work and solid incremental science."
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For all my image making and reading I have yet to make a meme anywhere near the strength of this one. A masterpiece. https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/776211317510156288 #meme

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think of something you've tried to do or learn before and found pretty difficult, especially something from when you were younger. if you try doing or learning it now, there's a decent chance you will still struggle with it... but a surprisingly high one that it'll somehow be really easy suddenly because you've picked up some orthogonal skill or knowledge that inexplicably changed your brain to a subtly different and better brain without you noticing