Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one
Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request : Tweets: @antoniogm , @benharnett , @angebassa , @kaylahroxout , @koehrsen_will , @sarthakgh , @elidourado , @tommycollison , @pkafka , @celinehalioua , @r...
a16z plans to launch a “new and separate media property” later this year focused on “the future” and names ex-CNN editor Maggie Leung executive editor
rather than traditional PR — is a huge opportunity for a huge number of companies, universities, non-profits, and political parties. Tell your own story. https://a16z.com/... @balajis : The new model:...
Coinbase shares an internal email on an upcoming NYT story alleging several Black employees had negative experiences, says it “will paint an inaccurate picture”
none — ever gives you a generous, long runway to respond in the future https://twitter.com/... Eli Dourado / @elidourado : Fools! Didn't you know that when an elite reporter comes after your livelihoo...
The challenge of closing the digital divide for students has proved daunting in N. Carolina, which has a large rural population lacking reliable internet access
https://www.nytimes.com/... James Young / @jdyubergeek : Broadband Access was a big part of @jennawadsworth's platform, and it is still a crisis now that the election is over. Almost a century ago, th...
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Benedict Evans / @benedic...
NYT and Facebook announce a multi-year partnership to co-develop AR filters and effects on Instagram that help users access and contextualize NYT stories
FB providing financial, technical support for the project — NYT has full editorial control, provides feedback on developer experience, features Full story on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @allmyda...
A breakdown of the “four internets”: the US, China, EU, and India, the latter being driven in large part by the powerhouse telecom network Jio
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok … Tweets: @marceloplima , @s8mb , @antoniogm , @rmantri , and @benedictevans Tweets: ...
How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences
a new way for notable individuals to present custom tailored insights and information. It is part of a platform liberation process that will allow valuable journalists, artists, actors—any creative to...
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @donie , @antoniogm , @zackkanter , @antoniogm , @pilhofer , @freedomofpress , @tealtan , @_ram_ , @jimpethokoukis , @auren , @girlsreallyrule , @nicdawes , @davidubert...
France is hypocritical to ask Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections for a French contact-tracing app, while being such a vocal critic of big tech
We keep trying to explain to people that privacy is always about trade-offs, and arguing for privacy laws that protect “privacy” … Tweets: @alecstapp , @alexstamos , @lam_barrett , @pegobry , @alexher...