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Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen.

I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project…

Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United...

When good ideas make bad business

Parler survived being pushed out of Apple and Google's app stores, but getting kicked off Amazon's cloud has made Parler absent from the internet for days.

The genius math professor who ran Renaissance Technologies figured out how to reliably beat the market, but the rules still apply to everyone else.

I’ve been thinking about Petri nets a lot. Around 2010, I got excited about using them to describe chemical reactions, population dynamics and more, using ideas taken from quantum physics. Th…

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I have come to the conclusion that Software Engineering is primarily a learning endeavour, the working code is rather a side effect.
This quote is actually not mine but I am paraphrasing Alberto Brandolini who is making this very point in Event Storming (he…

After initially pausing Prime Pantry during the pandemic, Amazon has permanently shut down its Prime Pantry delivery service.

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At least one leaker has already been exposed. Here’s how to protect yourself or your sources.

Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company.

BPL columnist Maggie Slepian unpacks suffering in endurance sports - what it means, and what to do with it.