Zeynep TufekciVerified account

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Thinking about our tools, ourselves. +Sociology Asst. Prof. Carnegie Fellow. Writer at & . Harvard . Ex-.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    COBOL.

    70% of all business transactions still rely on . (: "Now that's maintenance!")
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    18 hours ago

    As we continue to focus on in , this catastrophe has been building up on border:

    50,000 Syrians trapped on desert border with Jordan, more than half of them minors
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  4. 17 hours ago

    Sigh. Acquired. Chatted with cashier. It does sell. What is happening to the world. (Even though I write and think about this all the time.)

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  5. 17 hours ago

    Buy is winning. Making sure I have cash. 😄

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  6. 17 hours ago

    10 minutes left in poll. Buy or not?!

    4:45 PM - 8 Apr 2016 · Details
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  7. 17 hours ago

    . But I can't tell if it's a parody or not, or how one would tell the difference.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Still haven't bought. Still transfixed. If I don't buy it now, at an airport, for cash, not ever buying it. Can't have in online profile.🤔

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  10. 18 hours ago

    OMG.

    4:20 PM - 8 Apr 2016 · Details
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  11. 18 hours ago

    $11.99. "Let's Make Coloring Great Again."

    4:18 PM - 8 Apr 2016 · Details
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  12. 18 hours ago

    Talk me out of buying it. (To study themes, of course.)

    4:17 PM - 8 Apr 2016 · Details
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  13. 18 hours ago

    Whut?

    4:13 PM - 8 Apr 2016 · Details
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    20 hours ago

    Specific analysis of FB bill premature, but see Keys Under Doormats & my April'15 testimony.

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  15. 21 hours ago

    Read thread for "why are people reluctant to share personal info on Facebook." Little to no sense of control.

    A useful thing that came out of The Watermelon: I noticed that FB was showing me which friends of mine were simultaneously watching.
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  16. 21 hours ago

    I mean, impressive that Buzzfeed figured this out before others (as usual) but mass spectatorship in company of others is ... fairly common.

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  17. 21 hours ago

    Billions watch 11 men kick a round object in the least efficient way possible--no hands--towards a net with holes.

    It's not just that 800,000 people watched the BF people explode a watermelon. It's that they left **315,000 COMMENTS***
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  18. 23 hours ago

    There is so much complexity of moving from largely human-based decision-making to formalization, be it through bureaucracy or computation.

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  19. 23 hours ago

    Another example in which moving from human referral to tests/formal processes helps curb discrimination:

    Important column on how to identify gifted minority kids: Use tests, rather than biased referrals.
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  20. 23 hours ago

    Instant articles on FB will now include "branded content" aka native advertisement integrates further into feed.

    Facebook’s new advertising policy opens the floodgates for publishers’ branded content on social
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  21. Apr 8

    Yep. Adware, malware and ransomware are merging into one another. Unacceptable. (Working on piece on topic!)

    major sites beholden to their ad networks, which are the most regressive offenders on the net. They also hold back https adoption
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