May 30, 2019
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- Farhad Manjoo, Ny Times
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Big picture
- Farhad Manjoo, Ny Times
These companies are going to be building the future of transportation in the United States and the world. They're building self-driving cars. They're building drones. They're building the infrastructure of the United States, the infrastructure of the next 20, 30, 40 years in ways that we used to look to governments to do. Amazon has a fleet of planes, drones, it is in the shipping business. It affects stores around you. Much of the physical world around you is being shaped by that one company.
Farhad Manjoo on the “Frightful Five,” Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon.
Twitter, cartellino rosso per Trump. "Per sempre"?
#Twitter, cartellino rosso per #Trump. "Per sempre"?
Dopo aver esclamato molte volte “You’re fired!” nello show The Apprentice, tocca a Donald Trump essere sbattuto fuori. Definitivamente, da Twitter, come ha confermato ieri Ned Segal (CFO della piattaforma social) in un’intervista concessa a CNBC. : “Per come funzionano le nostre politiche, quando vieni rimosso dalla piattaforma… sei rimosso dalla piattaforma, sia che tu sia un commentatore, che…
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What distinguishes the productive online communities from the disturbing ones? Often it's something simple: content moderation. The best places online are bounded by clear, well-enforced community guidelines for participation. Twitter and Facebook are toxic because there are few rules and few penalties for flouting them.
Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times.
Beware of news and opinion platforms without referees or umpires.
Instead of relying on unvetted news feeds on social media which can include highly dubious and murky sources, go directly to reliable news sources which don’t just tell you what you want to hear.
Our culture is a culture in crisis, and some of us like it that way.
—Nancy Armstrong, "Who's Afraid of the Cultural Turn?" differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 2001
Perhaps a good time to read my new piece on Gore Vidal's just-reissued scandalous 1968 bestseller Myra Breckinridge, complete with equally shocking references to Camille Paglia, gender acceleration, and more.
Et Tu, Manjoo
It’s the Ides of March (BEWARE!), and over the last week, it’s come out that Farhad Manjoo’s two-months of only getting his news from print, which I discussed last week on this site, might not have quite the digital diet he led us to believe. In his column, Manjoo indicates that he “unplugged from Twitter,” but as Dan Mitchell and Joshua Benton reported since the column’s publishing, he was very…
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A totally true account of a time I went off-line
Vann Newkirk vs. Farhad Manjoo
Farhad Manjoo's Junk-Free, Two-Month Print-News Cleanse
Farhad Manjoo’s Junk-Free, Two-Month Print-News Cleanse
The tech columnist at the New York Times, Farhad Manjoo, spent the first two months of 2018 only getting his news from print sources. The experiment seems a bit counter intuitive to what a technology reporter should do. Why would someone surrounded by high-tech gadgets want to get his news in this low-tech, antiquated way? The experiment seems to have yielded two conclusions. The first, which he…
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