projects and motifs 20160307
edbrowse - the command line browser project
empire logistics - visualizing port-pairs on a map, and adding landside car location messages
the "supply-chain infrastructure map" originally developed by Amiri using postgis, leaflet, tilestache, etc.
the great Giannina Segnini and her use of shipping databases for the cocaine-smuggled-in-shark-fin article, and other stories
the great Tom Slee, who scraped data from the airbnb site and showed, with Murray Cox, that airbnb lied through their teeth
the great Richard Smith, revealing obviously fake company directors and other registrar fraud using things like opencorporates.com
the great Yves Smith and her private equity stories showing how captured the limited partners are at places like CalPERS
Lux Leaks - Consortium of Investigative Journalists' great work
Maplight
Pro Publica
Muckraking Big Data evangelists
Muckraking the Sharing Economy
Don't take its spokesmen and ringmasters on their own terms
And bring 1099 out of the memory hole - 1099 in drayage, 1099 in messengers & couriers, 1099 from new tech startups is
all the same song and dance. Mobile devices are just the latest excuse to claim we're in Year Zero and the old rules don't apply.
I am pursuing a certification in a damn buzzword with the initials D.S., from an acclaimed university with the initials J.H.,
in the form of a MOOC on a major MOOC-platform that starts with C.
I feel dirty.
You can just smell the commons being disrupted when you log into their thing.
Maybe it's a mistake to even use it in the first place.
As Mirowski said, Facebook is training wheels that teaches you to be a neoliberal agent so when I see these kinds of dog whistles,
I retch.
The instructors in my MOOC are doing things like illustrate points by raising quotes from Ronald Coase and The Economist.
Anyway, learning some "R" overlaps with what I do anyhow, so it may be a valuable kind of thing that transcends the politics.