This episode we talk about Amazon’s AI recruiting fail, WordPress accessibility issues, Google+ and more. https://recompilermag.com/2018/10/16/episode-75-do-we-need-to-faraday-cage-your-office Community Event Planning pre-order. Still time to get in on the book previews! https://community-events-2.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Survey for event organizers https://airtable.com/shrvbemYqHvL1Z7tt Issue 10 - Science! It’s shipping. Back order sale use code READER18 for buy 2, get 3rd 1/2 off! https://shop.recompilermag.com Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why. - Rian Rietveld https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/09/i-have-resigned-the-wordpress-accessibility-team/ A Plan for 5.0 – Make WordPress Core https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/ JAMstack | JavaScript, APIs, and Markup https://jamstack.org/ Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-shutting-down-google-plus/ Google faces mounting pressure from Congress over Google+ privacy flaw - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17964134/google-plus-congress-privacy-data-vulnerability Tampered Chinese Ethernet port used to hack ‘major US telecom,’ says Bloomberg report https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/10/9/17955848/supermicro-telecom-server-hack-apple-amazon Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Improved PDF retrieval with Unpaywall integration https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpaywall-integration/ Julia Evans Zines https://jvns.ca/zines/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/23/why-sell-zines/ Let’s Pair! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marlenac/lets-pair
Episode 54: But this one involves a sheep!
This week Audrey and I chat about YouTube’s announcement to link to Wikipedia, the New Yorker’s profile of Reddit, Spotify and copyright law, and more. Enjoy!
- [03:53] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers!
- [06:36] Hire Christie!
- [07:06] YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia - The Verge
- [12:50] Phoebe Ayers on Twitter: "...It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor..."
- [14:04] YouTube, the Great Radicalizer - The New York Times
- [15:51] kate conger on Twitter: "case in point: in YouTube's statement, they don't take a position on whether the moon landing happened."
- [19:56] The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
- [29:49] Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet | The New Yorker
- [43:04] Rochelle on Twitter: "Analyzing videos for YouTube this morning. The rules are always changing..."
- [44:44] A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on a law made for player pianos - The Verge
- [49:20] Dear Music Fans... by StartUp from Gimlet Media
- [51:16] Spooky action at a distance, how an AWS outage ate our load balancer
- [55:26] Janelle Shane on Twitter: "Does anyone have a picture of sheep in a really unusual place? It's for pranking a neural net."
- [57:31] Let's Encrypt on Twitter: "Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates and ACMEv2 are available today! More information can be found here: https://t.co/0SdH98Oabn"