Posts by drewharwell@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AUbr2wGGZoTui4CMme by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-04-13T12:35:58Z
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Algorithmic bias: A Black man is suing for a better position on the kidney transplant waiting list, citing flaws in the algorithm used to determine priority; "a systemic underestimation of kidney disease severity for many Black patients"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/10/lawsuit-unos-kidney-transplant-race-discrimination/
(DIR) Post #AUc425Zll64uiGFJB2 by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-04-13T14:22:21Z
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The woke mind virus claims another victim
(DIR) Post #AUfyMyR3gCexYVaQgS by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-04-15T11:41:45Z
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New: The military told service members last month, "Don’t post anything in Discord that you wouldn’t want seen by the general public." Hundreds of top secret documents were already therehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/15/discord-military-recruitment-pentagon-document-leaks/
(DIR) Post #AUrdB8FVGF47PmvxgG by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-04-21T03:04:07Z
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@databae Now that's what I call joinery
(DIR) Post #AUvh5WJs21F2mOObmC by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T00:57:18Z
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The great @JackShafer on how Elon keeps manipulating the credulous and easily exploited presshttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293
(DIR) Post #AXKr4wgM0fBtkxZeYC by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T01:25:10Z
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Who's excited for Threads
(DIR) Post #AXMAkBKYXp7TLciNEW by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T16:33:47Z
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New: Erica Marsh became one of the most consistently viral liberal accounts on Twitter. Only problem: She's probably fake. Her account was suspended after we asked Twitter workers about it. Doesn't this kind of rage baiting make you angry? Boost if you agree https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/twitter-erica-marsh-suspended/
(DIR) Post #AYlo2axFQK2L2ZAdxw by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T17:56:33Z
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New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes. Five-second delays on links to New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/ @jeremybmerrill
(DIR) Post #AYlo2d6XQkelhxX5iy by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T17:57:06Z
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First flagged on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130060
(DIR) Post #AYlo2h8SRYZKD4SgGu by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T19:13:50Z
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Substack’s cofounders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi tell me in a statement: "Substack was created in direct response to this kind of behavior by social media companies" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
(DIR) Post #AYlo2wM7r1PlPnyJ9s by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T19:19:17Z
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New York Times spokesman Charlie Stadtlander tells me in a statement: "We have not received any explanation from the platform about this move" and "would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons"
(DIR) Post #AYmoAHO6FcfppUM37o by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T00:59:20Z
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Rich and powerful people are using defamation lawsuits to silence factual reporting and crush local news outlets. This is the playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/antigay-slur-wausau-pilot-review.html
(DIR) Post #AZ6KF8qMKmXhJZApQe by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-08-25T17:18:56Z
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First president in history to have his mugshot on the Wii News Channel
(DIR) Post #AawY7cYQ8ZVizqlLCS by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-10-19T23:12:41Z
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New: X/Twitter just removed the gold 'verified' badge from @nytimes's 55-million-follower account with no explanation. Musk constantly complains about NYT, and other news orgs' badges are untouched. Raises risk of impostors amid a flood of false information on X related to the Israel-Gaza war, some of which Musk has personally endorsed https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/19/x-twitter-nyt-dispute-musk/
(DIR) Post #AawY7eyj7jk2W15NTs by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-10-19T23:13:18Z
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Another big news item here: Since August, when we reported on X's five-second delay for NYT links, traffic from X to NYT has plunged *50%*. Massive drop for X's 25th-biggest account that outpaces industry-wide slide https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/19/x-twitter-nyt-dispute-musk/
(DIR) Post #Ab5vi4fXzdrr2lqVNY by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-10-24T11:24:53Z
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New: What are all these violent videos doing to us? The "golden age of brutal voyeurism" is redefining war and bringing gruesome scenes back home: "It’s like there are suddenly many more movie theaters in town, and some of them are much more friendly toward snuff films" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/24/israel-war-violent-videos/
(DIR) Post #AbmDuNutMfuhRnZovI by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-11-13T17:27:51Z
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Trump's spokesman says that anyone who makes the "ridiculous" claim that he is talking like a dictator will have their "entire existence ... crushed" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/
(DIR) Post #AbydcCrTCTfM5O5VaK by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-11-17T01:01:13Z
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New reporting on the bin Laden "Letter to America":* Hashtag was on 274 TikTok videos with 1.8 million views on Tues/Weds. (#skincare videos get 252 million views in a day.) Not viral, marginal. Until ...* X thread compilation, now with 30M views, made it blow up* Guardian removal backfired; @Noupside said it turned “the long-public ravings of a terrorist into forbidden knowledge"https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/
(DIR) Post #Ack130SLknlhPCRaMK by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-12-12T14:43:31Z
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New: Cops are going into pharmacies and walking out with people's most sensitive health information. No warrant or judge review. Comes at a time when women's health care is being criminalized. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/12/pharmacy-records-police-privacy-abortion/
(DIR) Post #AczIlHK883P6Xd0kjI by drewharwell@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T02:25:15Z
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New: Rite Aid secretly scanned shoppers with facial recognition for years, leading to false shoplifting accusations, "embarrassment, harassment and other harm," the FTC says. The chain banned workers from talking about it, and errors were common; one 11-year-old girl was distraught after being searched due to a false match. “Every black man is not [a] thief nor should they be made to feel like one"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ftc-rite-aid-facial-recognition/