How to Sniff Out ‘Copaganda’: When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

Alec Karakatsanis's new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News criticizes how the media covers — and enables — policing.

Teen Vogue
Poker Pros, Crypto Kings, and Tech Titans: Nate Silver’s Guide to “The River”

In an excerpt of his new book, ‘On the Edge,’ the statistician explains why “Riverians”— with their penchant for data, free speech, and unfettered capitalism—are steeped in a political power struggle against the Democratic-aligned “Village” elites.

Vanity Fair
Poker Pros, Crypto Kings, and Tech Titans: Nate Silver's Guide to "The River"
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Poker Pros, Crypto Kings, and Tech Titans: Nate Silver’s Guide to “The River”

In an excerpt of his new book, ‘On the Edge,’ the statistician explains why “Riverians”— with their penchant for data, free speech, and unfettered capitalism—are steeped in a political power struggle against the Democratic-aligned “Village” elites.

Vanity Fair
graunt and statistics--7/16/24

Today's selection-- from Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein. John Graunt and his breakthrough 1662 book, Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills Of Mortality: “Statistical sampling has...

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You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

The internet is a cesspool of misinformation, and the biggest blue-chip brands and their ad agencies are the ones funding it—by stuffing money into a Rube Goldberg machine no one really understands.

WIRED