Weekly Filet #267: Ethics don't scale – here's how to fix Facebook. And more.
1. Silicon Valley Has Failed to Protect Our Data. Here’s How to Fix It (Bloomberg Businessweek)
«Unfortunately, ethics don’t scale as well as systems. We’ve poisoned ourselves, and more than a little.» After a week of revelations and (mostly) justified outrage over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, a proposal.
2. Do we make better decisions in a foreign language? (Financial Times)
Would you kill a person in order to save five others? You've heard about this dilemma, but here's the twist: Those among you who are native English speakers are less likely to agree than those for whom English is a foreign language. Just because I made you think about this in English.
3. Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys (The New York Times)
Not the social mobility you want to see in a healthy society. Important investigation, presented in the best possible way.
4. Random stow (Quartz)
Never really thought about this, but it makes perfect sense: Why items in Amazon's warehouses are shelved 100% randomly.
5. Spirograph effect in HTML canvas (Bl.ocks.org)
If you like maths and drawing – or just like to bring back a childhood memory – this will keep you busy for quite a while...
PS: A special shout-out to Kottke.org, an inspiration for this newsletter, for being on the web for twenty years.