If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
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Your Tuesday in 2030
Or why The Browser Company is being acquired to bring Dia to the masses.
Analysis | Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.
There’s a new AI twist on a travel scam that has fooled people for years. Here’s what you need to know.
Can We Ever Know If Online Advertising Really Works?
In the summer of 2003, Viacom executive Mel Karmazin managed to sum up old media’s horror of the Internet with one of business lore’s greatest vulgar...
We Made It Weird #57
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If you are following the tech news, you might have seen the announcement that ICANN withheld consent for the change of control of the Public Interest Regis
A decade of writing at Mozilla
Today—April 3, 2016—marks the tenth anniversary of the day I started working at Mozilla as a writer on the Mozilla Developer Center project (now, of course, the Mozilla Developer Network or MDN). T…
The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI
Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the “AI-powered” telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a “$1.8 billion company…
This was 2022 btw vice.com/en/article/sex-workers-say-th…
Sex Workers Say They’re Being Silenced by the Government on Age Verification Plans
www.vice.comLATEST: on #WSocial's website, comment counts for posts by prominent users are incorrectly displayed, showing artificially elevated numbers. @opfuchs.gay came up with an interesting theory for it. "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data": blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-an…
W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data
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Interesting editing error in today's Pew report. They used CPS to count immigrants (weren't we just arguing about this?) and conclude the number dropped 1.4 million from January to June. They repeat this key sentence, once with and once without the caveat... pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-fi…
