#Cyberculture agenda: “Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

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Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

New York Times – Mike Isaac – Feb 22, 4:31 PM

Until this week, this culture was only whispered about in Silicon Valley. Then on Sunday, Susan Fowler, an engineer who left Uber in December, published a blog post about her time at the company. She detailed a history of discrimination and sexual

Google is donating $11.5 million to racial justice causes

The Social Software Weblog

Google will invest $11.5 million to support racial justice, the company announced in a blog post today. The funds are split between 10 different causes, with $5 million going to the Center for Policing Equality. “CPE’s National Justice Database is th…

Inside the Instagram Algorithm

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

A software engineer from Instagram recently provided some new insight into how their feed algorithm works.

Drones Are Turning Civilians Into an Air Force of Citizen Scientists

Wired Top Stories by Anna Vlasits

 

Citizen drone scientists need some basic training on study design.

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European Parliament rapporteur Piri says Situation in Turkey worsening on every visit as just 1,700 arrested over ‘terror propaganda’ via social media across Turkey…

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Situation in Turkey worsening on every visit: European Parliament rapporteur Piri

The situation in Turkey is worsening on every visit, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri said Feb. 22 during a visit to daily Cumhuriyet with other EU parliamentarians Elisabetta Pietrobon, Mariska Heijs and Jörgen Siil

Over 1,700 arrested over ‘terror propaganda’ via social media across Turkey

Some 1,734 people have been arrested for “making terror propaganda” on social media since the failed July 2016 coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey 2015/2016

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The human rights situation deteriorated markedly following parliamentary elections in June and the outbreak of violence between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish armed forces in July. The media faced unprecedented pressure from the

Journalists in State of Emergency – 46

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Özgür Gelecek daily’s Newsroom Editor Aslı Ceren Aslan was arrested on Feb. 21 in Şanlıurfa province. Aslan, who was detained on Feb. 18, was allegedly subject to physical violence and she was strip-searched twice during

 

Some inmates to get better conditions after overpopulation in Turkish jails due to Gülen case arrests

Overpopulation in Turkish prisons in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt has led the Turkish Justice Ministry to introduce new regulations that would better prison conditions for inmates serving less than 10 years in prison

Turkey’s top spy to visit Germany: Report

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head, Hakan Fidan, will visit Berlin in the near future as an invitee of the head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Bruno Kahl, Deutsche Welle Türkçe reported on its website Feb. 13.

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