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story by NalNezumi · 2020-10-26 · 1 comment

…human, because most media is about covering extreme events[1]) More in my media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... [1] The deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the way we…

comment by nemild · 2020-02-23 · in Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now

…readers (e.g., meltdown, bloodbath, crash, massacre, topple), but are often statistically suspect https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/financi... Some other good notes in this article: Context Matters. The Stock Market Drop…

comment by nemild · 2019-10-29 · in Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost

…to my media literacy guide. This message is a key point that underpins all the examples I list. https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... There's also one for engineers in the tech industry:…

comment by nemild · 2019-10-13 · in Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

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story by personjerry · 2019-08-01 · 0 comments

…Hype makes it easy to get free marketing and also drives clicks for media and social networks. https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...

comment by nemild · 2019-05-26 · in Ask HN: Was data science just hype?

…technology, whether it be crypto or MongoDB. Here's my media literacy guide for software engineers: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar... (It's kinda fun to realize that by getting excited about cryptocurrency, I…

comment by nemild · 2019-04-23 · in After the Bust, Are Bitcoins More Like Tulip Mania or the Internet?

…as always, I will shill my media literacy guide (there’s also a version for software engineers): https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...

comment by nemild · 2019-04-05 · in Americans Agree: Social Media Is Divisive (But We Keep Using It)

…I've spent years writing on social media (and used to work in it): My Media literacy guide: http://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.m... A piece I did for Quartz on Selective Facts: https://qz.com/1130094/todays-biggest-t…

comment by nemild · 2019-04-03 · in Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook

…media literacy guide to explain the incentives behind what we see in our feeds and our newspapers: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....

comment by nemild · 2019-03-15 · in Facebook, YouTube Blindsided by Mosque Shooter's Live Video

…we have our own form of “news” that this missive applies to. Here’s my media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... And one just for the tech industry (including HN):…

comment by nemild · 2019-02-05 · in Stop Reading News (2013)

…inviduals. Here’s my media literacy guide that catalogs all the biases (contributions welcome): https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....

comment by nemild · 2018-10-29 · in NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2016)

In that vein, I'm looking for contributors to my financial media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/financi... It's a new version of my broader software eng media literacy guide:…

comment by nemild · 2018-10-26 · in Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation

…media literacy work, where I explore the empathy gap: https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....

comment by nemild · 2018-10-20 · in Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?

…4/todays-biggest-threat-to-democracy-is... And write a media literacy guide on Github: Hack the Media https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....

comment by nemild · 2018-10-17 · in Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

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story by jules-jules · 2018-10-07 · 0 comments

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story by Fnoord · 2018-10-07 · 0 comments

Lots more examples in my media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media Search for Access:

comment by nemild · 2018-10-07 · in 5G Got me Fired

…and this is the key takeaway. Engagement is king, and social media seems to exacerbate this effect. https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media

comment by nemild · 2018-09-29 · in Confessions of a Fake News Writer

Partly for this reason, I’ve written a media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... There’s also one specific to the tech industry: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...

comment by nemild · 2018-09-17 · in Gell-Mann amnesia effect

…reporter makes this point in coverage of Yemen vs Syria). Here's a media literacy guide I wrote: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media (BTW, media literacy is esp critical for engineers, given how much thinly disguised marketing well…

comment by nemild · 2018-08-30 · in Why We Should Watch Less News

I write a media literacy guide for engineers: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer/blob/master/READM... The key thing this post is missing, is it talks about this as journalists could do better , as if these issues are simply a moral…

comment by nemild · 2018-07-20 · in We need a new model for tech journalism

This is great! Added to my media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer/commit/3d8091960e...

comment by nemild · 2018-06-22 · in Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts

…you're really interacting with. Will add this as an example to my media literacy guide for engs: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer

comment by nemild · 2018-06-22 · in Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts

…social networks set for media outlets. I wrote a media literacy guide for engineers in this vein: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer

comment by nemild · 2018-06-05 · in Bill Gates is giving Factfulness to those getting a degree from a U.S. college

…engineer media literacy guide to encourage a shift in user behavior, and contributions are welcome: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer ------------------------------------------------- * https://twitter.com/robjective/status/9646801…

comment by nemild · 2018-05-10 · in And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

…social feed algorithms and engagement). See the puppet images we made in this media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer (Contributions welcome) Ideally, we are individually able to realize this — and cut some of…

comment by nemild · 2018-04-23 · in Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It but You Are Being Programmed”

I've been actively working on a media literacy guide for engineers, contributions welcome: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer (Think Reddit influences so much of engineering thought from things like r/learnprogramming to all the…

comment by nemild · 2018-04-19 · in ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

…dramatically. (And now I will shill my media literacy for engineers guide — contributions welcome: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer )

comment by nemild · 2018-04-05 · in “Did We Create This Monster?” How Twitter Turned Toxic

…that touches on a lot of things discussed in this thread: Hacking Engineers and Engineering Media https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer

comment by nemild · 2018-03-23 · in Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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story by exolymph · 2018-03-22 · 9 comments