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When asked about platforms, most extolled the opportunities that Instagram has afforded them to share their work, connect with audiences, and make money. For some, growing a following on Instagram was what pushed them to quit day jobs and make art full-time. But reliance on platforms has come with a sense of anxiety about factors that remain in tech companies’ hands. The platform’s infrastructure can change or even disappear at any moment.
Influencer Creep — Real Life
reallifemag.com
If you put enough junk variables in a regression equation, one of them is bound to meet the threshold for statistical significance just by chance.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
Extraordinary rendition and black site prisons required foreign partners. Yet the Bush administration figured out that it could use the U.S. Empire to similar effect. After considering erecting a prison on the U.S. islands of Tinian, Wake, and Midway, the administration fastened on Guantánamo Bay, held on indefinite lease from Cuba since 1903—a prize from the 1898 war with Spain.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
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