Le WTF Digest (08-Dec-2018)

Arnaud Sahuguet

3 min readDec 10, 2018

Le WTF Digest (Weekly Technology Fix) is a curated list of articles/posts/etc. I find interesting.

Send your suggestions to wtf-digest@cornelltech.io .

Department of Digital Addictions — 🎮 💉

Chatbots; how Facebook's new algorithms triggered "Gilets Jaunes" in France (in French); and location data.

Opinion | Chatbots Are a Danger to Democracy

We need to identify, disqualify and regulate chatbots before they destroy political speech. By Jamie Susskind Mr…

www.nytimes.com

L'algorithme de la marque jaune.

Oui. Encore un article sur Facebook et les Gilets Jaunes. J'ai passé les deux derniers jours essentiellement au…

www.affordance.info

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret

The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails - each one following the path of an…

www.nytimes.com

Department of Smarter Cities — 💡🏙

Citizens; AI; and urban farmers.

Citizens Are the Key to Creating Smart Cities

In the 21st century, data-driven decision-making is a mantra among city leaders, who increasingly wish to harness the…

nextcity.org

How Can Smaller Cities Join the Growing AI Economy?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to make a significant impact on the global economy, adding $15.7 trillion to the…

www.govtech.com

How Atlanta Is Turning Ex-Cons Into Urban Farmers

ATLANTA-On a 4-acre farm a few miles south of the Fulton County Jail, Abiodun Henderson swung a pickax into the soil at…

www.politico.com

Department of Shameless Plugs — 🤑 🔌

Recurse Center fellowship; bad ideas; and wooden toys.

$10,000 Fellowships for women working on open source programming projects, research, and art - Blog…

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

www.recurse.com

Bad Idea Factory

Bad Idea Factory is a collective of chaotic creatives using technology to make people thinking face emoji.

biffud.com

How Melissa & Doug captured the toy market, one wooden block at a time

Earlier this fall, just ahead of the holiday season, Amazon mailed a catalog of its best-selling toys to some 20…

www.vox.com

Department of Silver Linings — 🌈🎆

Green New Deal; National Geographic; and circular cities.

The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting

After years of infighting, the Democrats may finally have found an environmental consensus in the Green New Deal. On…

www.theatlantic.com

50 Of The Most Incredible Photos Of The National Geographic Photo Contest Of 2018

National Geographic has become synonymous with photography, with the magazine always showcasing the outstanding beauty…

www.boredpanda.com

Circular Cities

By 2050, 75% of the population will reside in cities which are a major engine for economic growth. Currently, about 85%…

www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

Department of “we” the people — 🙋👨🏽‍💼👷🏿👩🏼‍🔬

Scamming the elderly; Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat at Google; and millennials.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/america-s-elderly-are-losing-37-billion-a-year-to-fraud

The Friendship That Made Google Huge

One day in March of 2000, six of Google 's best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the…

www.newyorker.com

A bunch of millennials explained in a survey why they despise phone calls

If you need to get in touch fast with someone who falls in the millennial demographic category, you're probably aware…

bgr.com

Department of 1-picture-worth-1,000-words — 📷💬

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