Reading the Allegheny County twitter feed and it feels like the windpocalypse is upon us. Wires and trees down everywhere, buildings collapsing, trash can lids littering the streets, and telephone poles on fire. Stay safe!

This show is much better without a host.

Governments must confront the harmful consequences of using facial recognition technology as an instrument of surveillance. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…

Terakobuta the gambling-addicted pig (mascot of the entertainment company, Terako Heritage) has a dice body and carries playing cards and a horse racing newpaper.

Yes!

New from De Mockracy: How Pittsburgh Is Implicated in the Police Violence of its Suburbs citylab.com/equity/2019/03…

My kid was like this once with board games. Then he turned four.

There was a 𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗺 groupie on my bus just now and I threw up in my mouth a little bit

Check out my long read about "Putting Data Back Into Context" for journalists - quoting the work of Rahul B (@[email protected]) Heather Krause, We All Count Jonathan Stray Bob Gradeck MuckRock Yanni Loukissas Johanna Drucker and @laurenfklein among others... datajournalism.com/read/longreads…

Wow. This is quite something. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Snapshot of a culture under siege. Our attempt to show what it feels like in Xinjiang right now. Blanketed with surveillance technology and checkpoints, the ancient Silk Road city has the feel of an open-air prison. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Or, we could not rely on an algorithmic panopticon to determine student attentiveness.

I’d hate to be the one to go in and clean his room after all of this. Hope he left them a big tip.

🔹 Adding a citizenship question to the Census would hurt the quality of information that Americans provide 🔹 A survey by Maya Sen, Matthew Baum, Bryce J. Dietrich and Rebecca Goldstein Shorenstein Center #2020Census washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

Our @civicswitch team wrote a blog post about libraries and data hosting. Check it out!