Gov't as you've never seen it before. Interactive network visualisations of the organigrams of government departments in the UK (love the Ministry of Defence!) app.peterrcook.com/ukgov-organogr… via Juan Mateos Garcia Peter Cook

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But there were huge differences. Gmail sent 63 percent of Pete Buttigieg's campaign email to the primary inbox. But it sent none of Elizabeth Warren's campaign email there. And only 2 percent of Bernie Sanders's campaign email landed in the primary inbox.

No doubt useful to many, but a pity it needs to exist at all. moderateapp.com

Now this could be very interesting - themarkup.org/citizen-browser - reverse engineering content moderation algorithms via a custom browser. One for Kathy Peach

This is the #Signal Vs #iMessage Vs #WhatsApp Vs #FacebookMessenger metadata graphic from my Forbes article on #Apple’s privacy labels… This is your data and you’re entitled to ask why it’s being collected and processed. forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm…

A few months ago I started a fun experiment: I blocked every account that promoted a tweet in my timeline. This progressively makes your twitter ads weirder, as twitter desperately tries to find *something* to monetize. Now I'm getting ads for mining equipment. It's delightful!

Tired: startups using machine learning to detect cancer in scans with 90% accuracy. Wired: startups using flocks of pigeons to detect cancer in scans, with 99% accuracy. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

The secret heart of academia is... Wikipedia. In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced the content of 250 published peer-reviewed academic papers! Articles referenced in Wikipedia also become more cited.

UK FCDO speaker Colum Wilson reveals #GrandBargain 2.0 scheme on a slide:

I mistakenly deleted today's visualization about what's at stake at #COP26 So here is it again (+slightly clarified).

Over the last couple of years @ricap_undp developed a portfolio sensemaking protocol to bring greater coherence to our programs. Join this webinar to find out more about the insights we gained eventbrite.co.nz/e/introduction…

What is a system philanthropist? "A portfolio of strategies for impact. They ask more questions about how to add value to others’ work. Attribution recedes in importance... a mentality of contribution that is collective and long-term" co-impact.org/wp-content/upl… Co-Impact

Dear frustrated economics students. If you are being taught only a narrow slice of economics perspectives, go straight to this website, teach yourself, and make up your own mind. Oh, and show it to your teacher too : ) exploring-economics.org

Sea-level rise and Climate Change is already here. It is just not manifesting how its popularly imagined with the ocean taking over. It's manifesting in cropland becoming too inundated and salty to grow, and forcing a switch to Aquaculture. See, here, the Mekong Delta.

Apologies in advance for not explaining this in any way, but here are the daily standard deviations for Antarctic sea ice extent for every day, 1989-2023, based on the 1991-2020 mean. Each blue line represents the SD's for a full year. Lighter is more recent. 2023 is in red.