by Ty Davison | Apr 12, 2023 | News & Commentary
Downtown Portland coffee shop announces closure, cites safety concerns – oregonlive.com: Portland-based Coava Coffee is permanently closing its downtown cafe this week on three days’ notice after nearly six years of brewing locally roasted coffee there....
by Ty Davison | Oct 12, 2020 | News & Commentary
For anyone who’s paid attention, that the New York Times is having credibility issues is no surprise whatsoever. After the Pulitzer Prize-winning(!) 1619 series turned out to be fanciful fiction, who can believe anything that The Times puts out? An Arrest...
by Ty Davison | Nov 20, 2016 | News & Commentary
http://arstechnica.com/staff/2016/11/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-facebook-news-feed-because-its-not-news/Fundamentally, the Facebook News Feed has two problems: It’s frequently made up of fake news, and the user doesn’t control the feed.
by Ty Davison | Nov 15, 2016 | News & Commentary
http://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-undercut-by-fear-1788808204″…it’s now clear that democracy suffers if our news feeds incentivize bullshit.†The first obligation of the Fourth Estate is truth, and the problem is the Facebook...