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Thursday, November 4, 2021

US Industrial Air Pollution, History of Cartography, Gutenberg Gait Database, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, November 4, 2021

US Industrial Air Pollution, History of Cartography, Gutenberg Gait Database, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, November 4, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

ProPublica: The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.. “It’s not a secret that industrial facilities emit hazardous air pollution. A new ProPublica analysis shows for the first time just how much toxic air pollution they emit — and how much the chemicals they unleash could be elevating cancer risk in their communities. ProPublica’s analysis of five years of modeled EPA data identified more than 1,000 toxic hot spots across the country and found that an estimated 250,000 people living in them may be exposed to levels of excess cancer risk that the EPA deems unacceptable.”

University of Wisconsin-Madison: 40-year map project, History of Cartography, draws to a close. “The History of Cartography series brings together cutting-edge research and a colorful collection of stories and histories told through maps. As a research, editorial and publishing venture, the project is drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping. It treats all maps — from prehistory through the 20th century — as cultural, technical and intellectual artifacts. With millions of words of rich content that includes extensive notes, plus thousands of illustrations, be forewarned: You don’t want to print it out on your home printer.” You can buy printed volumes but all completed volumes are also available to explore online.

EurekAlert: The Gutenberg Gait Database: World’s largest collection of gait analysis data of healthy individuals published. “The database has been compiled by Dr. Fabian Horst of the Institute of Sports Science at Mainz University and Djordje Slijepčević of St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria and comprises data from 350 healthy volunteers who attended the biomechanics lab at JGU [Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz] over the past seven years. The database contains ground reaction force (GRF) and center of pressure (COP) data measured for two consecutive steps, which were recorded by force plates embedded in the ground over the entire duration of ground contact of the feet.”

IrishCentral: Maps of Dublin city, dating 1695 to 1827, available online. “Dublin City Libraries (DCL) has announced that its City Surveyors’ Maps Collection dating from 1695 until 1827 is now available on the Digital Repository of Ireland. Maps in the collection show the development of Dolphin’s Barn, Lazy Hill (now called Pearse Street), Essex Street, and a plan to develop buildings and stables on St. Stephen’s Green in 1758 that never came to fruition.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

MakeUseOf: LinkedIn Launches Service Marketplace, but Can It Compete With Fiverr and Upwork?. “Freelancers can now find work projects on LinkedIn. The popular professional social network is opening up opportunities for professionals to find work on its platform, going beyond merely giving them the tools to advertise their skills and experience. LinkedIn will do this through Service Marketplace, a new feature to compete with the likes of Fiverr and Upwork, but does Marketplace stand a chance against these platforms? Let’s find out.”

State Archives of North Carolina: Senate Audio, 1979-1980, Now Available in NCDC. “We are very happy to announce that the North Carolina Senate Daily Legislative Session Audio Recordings (SR.66.25) for the years 1979-1980 have been uploaded to the Internet Archive and are now available for listening through the North Carolina Digital Collections (NCDC; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/custom/senate-audio).”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Toronto Star: Library and Archives Canada service cuts hindering research, historians complain . “Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada’s national archives are making their work — already hampered by COVID-19 — even more challenging. In a letter to Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Historical Association urges the institution to reconsider reductions that have left its archival reading room open just three days a week.”

Sydney Morning Herald: How the cosmetic cowboys ran free on the wild west of social media. “Calls to Dr Lanzer’s Melbourne clinic were bounced to a call centre in the Philippines with a message that no bookings for surgical procedures will be taken at this clinic until next year. Industry regulators, for their part, confirmed they were investigating the allegations outlined in the media investigation, Cosmetic Cowboys, which included videos of doctors dancing and laughing as they performed liposuction on an unconscious patient while holding a long stainless-steel cannula.”

This headline is a bit misleading, especially if you were a huge Google Wave stan, so please read the article. TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Google Wave . “Back in 2019, Microsoft announced the Fluid Framework (not to be confused with the Fluent design system). The idea here was nothing short of trying to re-invent the nature of business documents and how developers build real-time applications. Last year, the company open-sourced Fluid and started building it into a few of its own Office applications. Today, at its Ignite conference, it’s launching a whole new product built on top of Fluid: Microsoft ~~Wave~~ Loop. Loop is a new app — and concept — that takes the Fluid framework, which provides developers with flexible components to mix and match in order to create real-time editing-based applications, to create a new experience for users to collaborate on documents. In many ways, that was also the promise of Google Wave — real-time collaboration plus a developer framework and protocol to bring Wave everywhere.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: Regulators Ask Congress to Create New Rules for Cryptocurrencies. “Federal regulators say they urgently need more power from Congress to properly regulate stablecoins, a fast-growing type of cryptocurrency that they warn could result in bank runs, consumer abuse and payment snafus unless lawmakers act quickly, according to a report issued Monday by the Treasury Department.”

Meduza: Google permanently blocks Belarusian Investigative Committee’s YouTube channel due to sanctions . “The official Google account and linked YouTube channel of the Belarusian Investigative Committee has been blocked due to international sanctions imposed on Belarusian officials and organizations.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

ZDNet: Ditching Google Chrome was the best thing I did this year (and you should too). “If you have to use Google Chrome, I have some ideas on how to make it less awful. But at the end of the day, it’s still awful. It’s even awful on the new MacBook Pro running the M1 Pro chip . And that chip makes Adobe Premiere Pro look good. I don’t say this lightly, but my advice to everyone is to dump Google Chrome. I know not everyone can get rid of it completely (I’m one of those people), but do yourself a favor and go try some other browsers. And then you’ll see for yourself just how bad Google Chrome actually is.”

CBC: CBC is keeping Facebook comments closed on news posts. “To be clear, we aren’t interested in curtailing genuine criticism of our journalism, which we welcome (you can find plenty of it in the comments on the stories on our news site, which are closely moderated). We’re talking instead about trying to stop, in the online places where we have some control at least, the vile abuse, personal harassment and misinformation that’s so damaging to public discourse.” Good morning, Internet…

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November 4, 2021 at 05:25PM
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Lake Powell, Global PV Systems, Twitter Spaces, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 3, 2021

Lake Powell, Global PV Systems, Twitter Spaces, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 3, 2021
By ResearchBuzz

Many apologies for misspelling Rotterdam. I am so tired.

NEW RESOURCES

Arizona Secretary of State: Float along the early days of Lake Powell on the Arizona Memory Project. “A new partnership between the State of Arizona Research Library and the Glen Canyon Conservancy- John Wesley Powell Museum has resulted in the Stan Jones’ Glen Canyon Log Books collection. From 1966 to 1986, as Lake Powell filled behind the newly completed Glen Canyon Dam, Stan Jones explored the changing shorelines in his motorboat, writing down his notes and observations as the waters rose. Though the collection only contains two journals, their handwritten findings fill nearly 400 pages of material that Jones would later use in his books about Lake Powell.”

PV Magazine: Global online inventory of PV systems exceeding 10 kW in size. “Through the inventory, an international group of researchers was able to identify 68,661 PV facilities, totaling 423 GW across 31 countries. According to the scientists, the online database provides insight into global trends for PV siting decisions, as well as into the gap between facility-level final investment decisions, construction start dates, construction completion dates and facility operations.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

The Verge: Twitter Spaces hosts can now record conversations and share them in tweets. “Twitter is now allowing hosts of Twitter Spaces chats to record and share their broadcasts. The feature is starting to roll out to a limited number of Twitter Spaces hosts on iOS and should be available to all hosts ‘within a few weeks.’ The feature lets hosts record a Twitter Spaces conversation and share the recording in a tweet.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: ExplainShell: A Web-Based Alternative to the Traditional Linux Man Pages. “No matter how experienced you’re with the Linux command line, there will always be times when you’ll encounter unfamiliar commands. In such situations, while the natural instinct is to either refer to man pages or google the command to figure out what it does, what if we tell you there’s a better (read immersive) way to do it. Well, as it turns out, there’s a tool called ExplainShell that does exactly that: tells you what each part of a shell command does in an easy-to-comprehend manner.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Vice: This Artist Is Trying To Preserve Ancient Tattoo Traditions That Are Dying Out. “From permanent jewellery for people who couldn’t afford it to markers of social status, the India Ink Archive is documenting the country’s rich history of indigenous tattoo traditions.”

Denver Public Library: Why Everything In The Archives Isn’t Digitized (Yet) . “In the spirit of American Archives Month, this October we’ve compiled a three-blog series about what archivists do and how we make collections accessible. While our first blog post delved into acquisitions and the second examined processing and cataloging, this post will focus on digitization and access.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: Clearview AI finally takes part in a federal accuracy test. . “Clearview AI scraped more than 10 billion photos from the public internet to build a facial-recognition tool that it marketed to law enforcement agencies for identifying unknown people. Critics have said the company’s product is illegal, unethical and untested. Now, more than two years after law enforcement officers first started using the company’s app, Clearview’s algorithm — what allows it to match faces to photos — has been put to a third-party test for the first time. It performed surprisingly well.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

U Today: Scientific articles still not always free of charge. “Last year, three in ten articles by Dutch researchers ended up behind a paywall and cannot be accessed free of charge by outsiders. The Netherlands leads the world, but the objective has not been achieved.”

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: An online pandemic: disinformation targeted at Black communities. “Black communities are repeatedly targeted for online disinformation and used as a tool to stir discord related to America’s longstanding racial divides. The targeting is likely to continue unless the US government acts on its apparent resolve to do something about the manipulation of US citizens. Moreover, time is running out; the 2022 and 2024 elections are right around the corner.” Good afternoon, Internet…

November 4, 2021 at 02:54AM
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Rotterdamn Street Names, Chicken Checker, Arizona Government History, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, November 3, 2021

Rotterdamn Street Names, Chicken Checker, Arizona Government History, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, November 3, 2021
By ResearchBuzz

NEW RESOURCES

Dutch News: No good and bad names: Rotterdam sets up street history database. “Rotterdam city council is to make sure all streets within its boundaries link to a database explaining where the name came from, to boost awareness of the city’s colonial and slavery heritage. But rather than divide the city into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ streets, the council has voted give all 6,402 roads a detailed explanation instead.”

New from ProPublica: Chicken Checker. “Find the P-number on a package of raw chicken or turkey. We’ll show you how often the USDA found salmonella at the plant that processed it.”

Arizona Secretary of State: Two new Arizona Memory Project collections will help speed up legal history research. “Legal history research is a little easier now that two law collections have been digitized and added to the Arizona Memory Project. The Arizona Administrative Code and the Legislative Bill Files, 1991-1996 collections make researching the legislative process, amended laws, and administrative codes a lot faster with online access from anywhere.”

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: New Data Dashboard Tracks Trends in Violent Deaths in North Carolina to Aid Safety and Prevention Efforts. “The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System (NC-VDRS) Data Dashboard, an interactive online dashboard that provides aggregate information on violent deaths for all 100 counties in North Carolina. The NC-VDRS dashboard, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was created to make data more accessible to public health partners to inform the development, implementation and evaluation of prevention efforts around violence and safety.”

Inquirer (Philippines): Internet archive of ‘subversive’ publications launched. “An ‘alliance,’ as they call themselves, of teachers, researchers, and other professionals in the education sector has launched a website archiving progressive publications and documents deemed ‘subversive’ by the military as it conducts an ongoing purge in various school libraries nationwide.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

State Archives of North Carolina: More County Records Added to Discover Online Catalog (DOC). “Up until recently the only county records that were searchable in our online database were the original county records in our holdings. However, we have many more county records on microfilm that are available in our search room and through correspondence. For the first time, a full listing of these records will be added to our online database.”

Language Magazine: Portuguese Museum Arises Like a Phoenix. “Six years after it went up in flames, Brazil’s Museum of the Portuguese Language has reopened at the Estação da Luz station in the heart of São Paulo. The museum originally opened in 2006 but was destroyed in December 2015, in a fire that claimed the life of a firefighter.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Task & Purpose: The Pentagon quietly removed more than 130,000 Afghanistan War photos and videos from public view. “The Pentagon has quietly removed a massive collection of Afghanistan War footage totaling more than 120,000 photos and 17,000 videos from its official visual record. The images and videos, which date back more than a decade, were previously published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS, a vast repository of public domain material that’s available for use by the public and the press.”

MakeUseOf: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Good Upgrade, but Needs More RAM . “First released as a low cost, low spec single-board computer (SBC) in 2015, the compact Raspberry Pi Zero has had a couple of minor iterations in the intervening years. But the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W marks its first major revision, giving it a specification not dissimilar to the Raspberry Pi 3. But with the Raspberry Pi 4 pushing the boundaries of power while retaining its credit card size, what can the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W bring to the world of hobbyist computing?”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Cornell Chronicle: Words used in text-mining research carry bias, study finds. “The word lists packaged and shared amongst researchers to measure for bias in online texts often carry words, or ‘seeds,’ with baked-in biases and stereotypes, which could skew their findings, new Cornell research finds. For instance, the presence of the seed term ‘mom’ in a text analysis exploring gender in domestic work would skew results female.”

NiemanLab: Adobe and news orgs are working on a new tool that could identify a photo’s origin — and combat misinformation. “Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative is developing tools and standards that allow people to capture, store, and verify key details about a photo — its digital provenance — with an eye toward creating standards that can be used across the internet.”

Mashable: Meet the ‘Toxic Ten’: The fringe outlets behind most climate change denial on the internet. “According to a study published Tuesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-profit organization that tracks and analyzes online hate and misinformation, just 10 publishers account for the vast majority of climate denial content on the most popular social media platforms. These publishers include the far-right outlet Breitbart, cable news channel Newsmax, and conservative personality Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire.” Good morning, Internet…

November 3, 2021 at 05:38PM
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Lost Women of Science, Railway Modeller Magazine, Mapping the Gay Guides, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 2, 2021

Lost Women of Science, Railway Modeller Magazine, Mapping the Gay Guides, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 2, 2021
By ResearchBuzz

NEW RESOURCES

PR Newswire: Lost Women of Science Launches Podcast Series to Promote the Remarkable Women of Science You’ve Never Heard Of (PRESS RELEASE). “Journalist and author Katie Hafner, and bioethicist Amy Scharf, today announced the launch of the Lost Women of Science podcast series on November 4th, in partnership with public media organization PRX and the award-winning Scientific American magazine. The first season will include four in-depth episodes centered on Dr. Dorothy Andersen (1901-1963), a pediatric pathologist who identified and named cystic fibrosis in 1938. It will be available free on-demand across all major podcast listening platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Amazon Music.”

InPublishing: Railway Modeller magazine completes digital archive back to 1949. “Published monthly by Peco Publications, Railway Modeller is a guide to creating railscapes of every era of train, from steam to electric, and caters for modellers of all abilities, says Exact Editions. Each issue features the best from the hobby for those modelling Britain’s railways in all the popular scales and offers a blend of articles by experts and beginners alike, including a special section for newcomers wanting to learn all about the hobby and model making in general.”

Slate: We Are Everywhere. “Mapping the Gay Guides is an online exhibition that shows the growth of queer spaces for “community, pleasure, and politics” from 1965 to 1980 in all 50 states as well as Washington, DC. Built using data from the Bob Damron Address Books, a collection of travel guides that offered detailed information on spaces welcoming to queer people, MGG’s centerpiece is a map that places these bars, bathouses, restaurants, and churches as close to their original locations as possible.” This project launched in early 2020 but I only found out about it recently thanks to a Cal State Fullerton announcement of a grant related to the project.

University of Rhode Island: URI launches ‘Plastics: Land to Sea’ web platform. “A new University of Rhode Island web platform, ‘Plastics: Land to Sea,’ has been launched to provide the science community with a burgeoning array of data resources and tools designed to inform and support dialogue concerning research focused efforts to start addressing plastics pollution.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

BBC: Yahoo pulls out of China over ‘challenging’ business conditions. “Yahoo has become the latest US tech company to end its presence in mainland China as tougher regulations are imposed there.The firm said its decision was due to an ‘increasingly challenging business and legal environment’ in the country.”

CNET: Microsoft Teams is getting avatars, launching in VR and AR next year. “There really isn’t a ‘Zoom for VR’ yet, despite many companies aiming for it. The mainstream work tools most people use haven’t made the leap. Facebook, which is trying to push its entire company into the metaverse, doesn’t have one yet. Meanwhile, Microsoft is finally pushing Teams into a VR/AR-bridged tool that’s arriving, in beta form, in the first half of 2022.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Europeana Pro: Engaging students with audiovisual heritage through Subtitle-a-thons. “A Subtitle-a-thon is a crowdsourcing initiative which invites the public to create and add subtitles to archival audiovisual clips from European heritage collections available on the Europeana website. We share how this tool can be used by educators to help students engage with and explore audiovisual heritage.”

BNN Bloomberg: Google, Snap and Dozens Of Tech Companies Coordinate New Diversity Push. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Twitter Inc., Snap Inc. and about two dozen other major technology companies are banding together to focus on improving workplace diversity and strengthening the pipeline of underrepresented workers in Silicon Valley.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Brookings Institution: The gendered disinformation playbook in Germany is a warning for Europe. “Gendered disinformation attacks online are a well-known tactic that illiberal actors around the world—including Russia, Hungary and Brazil—have developed to undermine their opponents. By building on sexist narratives these actors intimidate women in order to eliminate critics, consolidate power, and undermine democratic processes. Such disinformation tactics are being imported to the West and are increasingly being adopted by both foreign actors and the far right in Europe.”

CU Boulder Today: How Black Twitter has become the new ‘Green Book’—and more. “In 1936 in Harlem, New York, a Black postal worker named Victor Green bound together a green, 15-page booklet listing New York City businesses that were welcoming to African Americans. In the coming decades, The Negro Motorist Green Book, a.k.a. The Green Book, expanded to include everything from hotels and restaurants to state parks and barbershops, with editions as far away as Bermuda and Mexico providing guidance on how to resist discrimination and threats of violence. Green discontinued the guide in 1966, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act presumably rendered its content obsolete. But more than a half-century later, a modern-day version is flourishing in the online community of Black Twitter, suggests new CU Boulder research.” Good afternoon, Internet…

November 3, 2021 at 01:13AM
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Nepal Antiquities, New Jersey Housing, Grocery Store Prices, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, November 2, 2021

Nepal Antiquities, New Jersey Housing, Grocery Store Prices, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, November 2, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

New York Times: Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted From Nepal. “Roshan Mishra recalls standing inside the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, staring into the eyes of a wooden goddess that he believed was the same artifact that had disappeared nearly 50 years earlier from a local temple in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, where he lives. Mishra, director of the Taragaon Museum in Kathmandu, describes that encounter, in 2019, as the event that inspired him to create a digital archive of nearly 3,000 Nepalese artifacts that he believes are being held by museums outside the country.”

State of New Jersey: Murphy Administration Releases Mapping Tool to Help New Jersey Residents Identify Lead Exposure Risks in Housing. “In recognition of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week from Sunday, Oct. 24 through Saturday, Oct. 30, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and New Jersey Department of Health have released the first phase of a statewide online mapping tool that uses publicly available data to indicate potential sources of lead exposure.”

BusinessWire: Datasembly’s New Grocery Price Index Reveals Details of Dramatic Price Inflation Acceleration in Q3 (PRESS RELEASE). “Datasembly, the leading provider of real-time product pricing, promotions, and assortment data for retailers and CPG brands, today announced the launch of its Grocery Price Index, as well as grocery inflation trends across a number of markets with New York, Philadelphia, Tampa, Detroit and Portland showing some of the largest recent increases within a few key grocery categories. The free tool is a culmination of the billions of pricing and product records that Datasembly collects daily from over 130,000 stores and more than 180 retail banners across the United States.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

BBC: Vax declared Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year. “Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all seeing a surge in use.”

Twitter Blog: #COP26 is happening on Twitter. “We’re committed to elevating the latest, most authoritative information about #COP26. Starting this week, people on Twitter can tap into our global #COP26 event page, featuring resources and commentary from key organizations and environmental experts and the latest #COP26 news. The event page will be localized, available to anyone on Twitter in English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and Japanese.”

CNET: TikTok and Amazon Fire TV team up in US and Canada. “Amazon Fire TV customers can now use the TikTok TV app to watch viral videos on Fire TVs and Fire TV devices. The update comes after Amazon Fire TV and video app TikTok announced a new partnership on Monday. To open TikTok on your Fire TV, according to the release, just say ‘Alexa, open TikTok.'”

USEFUL STUFF

Poynter: Here’s a roundup of journalism podcasts designed to inspire, entertain and inform your students. “In no particular order, here’s a handful of podcasts about journalism, with some others by journalists. I choose them specifically because they either talk about the craft and culture of journalism, or are created by journalists and showcase great techniques and storytelling. What did I miss? Send me your list and I’ll keep them coming next week.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

KnowTechie: Newslit is the Nuzzel alternative you’ve been waiting for. “Essentially, if you are familiar with Nuzzel you’ll feel right at home. If you are new to this though, just think of Newslit as an easy way to see a curated feed of what the people you follow are talking about on Twitter. In the feed, you’ll get an overview of the headline and topic and can also see which of the people you follow are actively talking about the subject. You can then click on their Twitter icons to see their actual tweet.” I’ve signed up for a free trial – alas, it is not a free service.

SECURITY & LEGAL

Route Fifty: States With the Most and Least Cybercrime. “Alaska has the highest amount of cyber fraud per person every year while West Virginia has the least, according to a recent report.”

Ubergizmo: Japanese Police Use Targeted YouTube Ads To Warn Would-Be Voyeurs. “According to the local police, it seems that illegal voyeur recordings have been a growing problem and arrests are up 25% from last year. In a bid to deter would-be voyeurs, the police have taken out targeted ads on YouTube to warn that voyeurism is a crime. So since these are targeted ads, it appears that the police are targeting users who are male and over the age of 18 and who might have search terms like ‘peeping’ and ‘small camera’ in their histories, which might suggest that they are interested in either watching these voyeuristic videos or looking to take part in them.”

The Verge: The Next Privacy Crisis. “Writer and researcher Erica Neely says that laws and social norms aren’t prepared for how AR could affect physical space. “I think we’re kind of frantically running behind the technology,” she tells The Verge. In 2019, Neely wrote about the issues that Pokémon Go had exposed around augmented locations. Those issues mostly haven’t been settled, she says. And dedicated AR hardware will only intensify them. Smartphone cameras — along with digital touchup apps like FaceTune and sophisticated image searches like Snap Scan and Google Lens — have already complicated our relationships with the offline world. But AR glasses could add an ease and ubiquity that our phones can’t manage.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Mashable: TikTok’s viral ‘talking’ dogs and cats inspire a study of animal behavior. “Lexi is one of many dogs on TikTok and other social platforms who’ve gone viral. They follow in the footsteps of dogs like Bunny, who has more than 7 million TikTok followers and regularly freaks out her audience by asking questions like, ‘Who this?’ before looking in the mirror. There’s also the original talking dog Stella, who started going viral after posting videos in 2019 and has nearly 1 million followers on Instagram.” My favorite button-stomping animal is a YouTube cat named Billi. Good morning, Internet…

November 2, 2021 at 05:28PM
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Monday, November 1, 2021

Delhi Air Pollution, Tree of Life Congregation, TikTok, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 1, 2021

Delhi Air Pollution, Tree of Life Congregation, TikTok, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 1, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

CitySpidey: New website to fight against pollution in Delhi. “In an initiative to fight against pollution, the Delhi government has launched a website… Environment Minister Gopal Rai informed that this website has been launched to make all information related to anti-pollution campaigns available in one place. This effective use of the content will help spread awareness. Essential information about the EV Policy and Tree Transplantation Policy among other data will be available on the website.”

Pittwire: See an archive of student reactions to the Tree of Life massacre. “To Those Who Grasp It: Student Responses to Oct. 27, was the first attempt in Pittsburgh and possibly beyond, to create an interpretive exhibit to understand and contextualize Oct. 27, said Eric Lidji, director of the Rauh Jewish History Program and Archives within the Senator John Heinz History Center, where the parts of the collection have been housed since August of this year. Other materials from the collection are also on display at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

The Verge: TikTok is testing a new tipping feature for some creators. “TikTok is experimenting with a new tool that allows TikTok users to tip some creators directly on their profiles. According to a video of the tips feature shared this week by TikTok creator Jera Bean, who noticed the feature in-app and applied for approval, any money tipped to creators will go directly to that individual (meaning TikTok won’t take a cut).”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: Microsoft Power BI vs. Google Data Studio: Which Is Better?. “Data analytics and visualization are vital skills that help any team plan tasks, make new project proposals, or impress clients with beautiful presentations. Google Data Studio and Microsoft Power BI are two top trending apps that enable you to materialize this skill. However, not all data analytics tools are similar, and different sets of data need separate tools. That’s why it’s smart to know the difference between these two business intelligence tools.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

The Guardian: Holy bikini-clad Batwoman! Archive saves Mexico’s scorned popular films. “Had they not been rescued from a dusty storehouse seven years ago, the original negatives of hundreds of Mexican movies featuring the likes of the silver-masked crime-fighting wrestler El Santo, a bikini-clad Batwoman and the Satan-worshipping Panther Women would have been lost forever. Salvation came in the form of Viviana García Besné, a film-maker, archivist, self-described ‘popular film activist’ and descendant of Mexico’s cinematic Calderón clan.”

Gawker: Pictures Disappear En Masse from G/O Media Posts. “G/O Media — the parent company that runs 11 websites, including the former Gawker Media properties Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Deadspin, The A.V. Club, The Onion, and Jezebel — has removed images from articles published before 2019, sources have confirmed to Gawker. The removal took place without internal announcement — as one G/O employee put it: ‘We are still kind of flying blind.'”

SECURITY & LEGAL

KFGO: Belarus classifies social media channels as ‘extremist’ in new crackdown. “The Belarusian interior ministry on Friday classified three of the country’s most popular opposition social media channels as extremist organisations, meaning that people can face up to seven years in prison for subscribing to them. Social media channels such as Telegram messenger were widely used during mass street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko last year both to coordinate demonstrations and share footage of a violent police crackdown.”

Complete Music Update: Genius tries to get its lyric lifting lawsuit against Google reinstated. “Legal reps for lyrics site Genius were in the Second Circuit appeals court in the US yesterday seeking to get their client’s big old lawsuit against Google reinstated. They insisted that Genius had a legitimate legal claim against Google because the tech giant breached its terms of service.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health: Machine Learning May Help Predict Success of Prescription Opioid Regulations. “Hundreds of laws aimed at reducing inappropriate prescription opioid dispensing have been implemented in the United States, yet due to the complexity of the overlapping programs, it has been difficult to evaluate their impact. A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health uses machine learning to evaluate the laws and their relation to prescription opioid dispensing patterns.”

El País: Rise of selfie deaths leads experts to talk about a public health problem. “A yellow fever jab and some malaria tablets used to be the classic precautions for tourists traveling to certain locations. But in the age of the smartphone, avoiding taking selfies in death-defying, if spectacular, locations can now be added to the list. A study by the Spanish iO Foundation, which specializes in tropical diseases, has revealed that between January 2008 and July 2021 at least 379 people – one out of every 13 days on average – have been killed in this way.” Good evening, Internet…

November 2, 2021 at 04:55AM
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All Facebook, All The Time: Monday Facebook Buzz, November 1, 2021

All Facebook, All The Time: Monday Facebook Buzz, November 1, 2021
By ResearchBuzz

There have been so many Facebook items coming out lately that I decided to put them in their own issue. This may be a one-off or I may have to do this again depending on much Facebook news washes up in my Google Alerts.

New York Times: Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?. “Whistle-blowers have filed at least nine complaints to the agency, which has oversight of public companies like Facebook, using a selection of the internal documents to argue that Facebook misled investors with a rosier picture of the company than they knew to be true. The S.E.C. can impose big fines for misleading investors and impose restrictions on corporate leaders. A case from securities regulators is probably far from a slam dunk, several legal experts said. The accusations in the complaints don’t appear to be quite as clear-cut as many other accounting and fraud cases taken up by the agency, they said.”

NiemanLab: I’m in the consortium possessing the leaked Facebook documents. Let’s dissolve it.. “On Monday, the consortium of news organizations tasked with combing through Frances Haugen’s Facebook documents expanded its ranks to include my small, independent newsletter, Big Technology. While it’s nice to be in this consortium — which includes the AP, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and others — I now believe it’s time to dissolve it.”

NBC News: Documents reveal Facebook targeted children as young as 6 for consumer base. “In the internal blog post published April 9, the author wrote that the company planned to hire several positions as it expanded into offering its full range of products to children younger than its current threshold of 13 years old. Diagrams illustrate proposed new target age groups, ranging from kids 6 to 9 years old and tweens 10 to 12 years old — along with existing targets of early teens from 13 to 15 years old, late teens from 16 to 17 years old, and adults.”

The Verge: Facebook Isn’t Telling The Whole Story About Its Mental Health Research . “Though Facebook’s work by itself is limited, it fits into a larger set of data — including from researchers outside the company — that suggests social media can have harmful effects on mental health. And even if that context didn’t exist, Facebook’s work alone suggests something bad enough is going on that it should cause concern.”

CNN: Facebook says it’s facing ‘government investigations’ related to whistleblower documents. “‘Beginning in September 2021, we became subject to government investigations and requests relating to a former employee’s allegations and release of internal company documents concerning, among other things, our algorithms, advertising and user metrics, and content enforcement practices, as well as misinformation and other undesirable activity on our platform, and user well-being,’ the company said in its quarterly earnings filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).”

Washington Post: Actually, Facebook isn’t making people angrier. Some people are just jerks.. “Most people — even at Facebook — think that the big problem with social media is that it makes people angrier than they might otherwise be, and more likely to believe false things. But our research suggests that online hostility isn’t a product of social media and algorithms. People who are angry when they talk about politics online are angry in offline political discussions, too. And when they share misinformation, it’s generally not because they are making a sincere mistake. It’s because they want to stick it to the people they hate, whether or not the actual complaint is true.” As I noted on Twitter, I will blame us for the fire, but I will blame Facebook for the gasoline.

New York Times: Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons.. “Facebook has told employees to ‘preserve internal documents and communications since 2016’ that pertain to its businesses because governments and legislative bodies have started inquiries into its operations, according to a company email sent on Tuesday night.”

Politico: How Facebook users wield multiple accounts to spread toxic politics. “Meet SUMAs: a smattering of accounts run by a single person using their real identity, known internally at Facebook as Single User Multiple Accounts. And a significant swath of them spread so many divisive political posts that they’ve mushroomed into a massive source of the platform’s toxic politics, according to internal company documents and interviews with former employees.”

BuzzFeed News: Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading An Internal Report About Its Role In The Insurrection. You Can Read It Here.. “Last Thursday, BuzzFeed News revealed that an internal Facebook report concluded that the company had failed to prevent the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement from using its platform to subvert the election, encourage violence, and help incite the Jan. 6 attempted coup on the US Capitol. Titled ‘Stop the Steal and Patriot Party: The Growth and Mitigation of an Adversarial Harmful Movement,’ the report is one of the most important analyses of how the insurrectionist effort to overturn a free and fair US presidential election spread across the world’s largest social network — and how Facebook missed critical warning signs.”

November 2, 2021 at 02:28AM
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