Beto orourke

The report points to a situation that may not be obvious to most Gmail (and other email client) users: your inbox is every bit as curated as your Twitter or Facebook feeds, and it’s based in part on your browsing history. When Gmail started sorting emails into distinct inbox tabs in 2013, marketers complained that the open rates on their email campaigns suffered, but users seemed to like the attempt to declutter their emails and to reserve the primary inbox for “the mail you really, really want.” … [Read more...] about Pete Buttigieg is winning Gmail’s spam primary

Facebook argues that the government could hold tech platforms accountable for certain key metrics: holding violating posts below a certain number of views, for example, or setting a mandatory median response time for removing them. But they note that any of these efforts could create perverse incentives. If platforms are required to remove certain posts within 24 hours, for example, they are likely to simply stop looking at older posts while they focus on posts that are still within the 24-hour window. … [Read more...] about Everything you need to know about Section 230

A few years ago, I went to something called the Adulting School in Portland, ME, as part of a story we were shooting for a television show. While I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d find, I figured it would be a spectacle: the branding was très millennial, and it was billed online as a way to learn basic life skills. After I got there I quickly saw I’d been wrong — the “students” were young, professional women who mostly knew whatever the place was supposed to teach them, there to network and drink wine with like-minded peers. Everyone I spoke to seemed to have a plan for their businesses or their jobs. As I learned how to change a tire in front of the assembled crowd, I realized that the aesthetics had been misleading, and that I had been taken in by believing they meant something. … [Read more...] about On today’s Super Tuesday ballot: the millennial aesthetic