Sarah R. Barrett

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[shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky]

emarketer just put out a v good (v paywalled) report detailing aaaallllllllllll the data that's typically used to target u with ads + where that data comes from + the new horrifying data sources tech co's are planning to start mining next https://t.co/P7exElXlPx

[Dr. Cat Hicks | grimalkina.bsky.social @grimalkina]

If you have a robust skincare routine you have demonstrated aptitude in many core skills of data science. I will not be taking criticism of this idea. Girls who have developed personalized skincare routines know more about multivariate causal inference than many engineers.

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

The reason we can joke about Y2K today is because many people took it seriously and as a result the real problems were fixed in time.

If you take a threat seriously and prepare for it, people scoff at the work that was done. When a threat isn’t taken seriously you get disaster.

[Aydin Kwan @heyakwan]

Recently, an acquaintance in tech asked me what, in my experience as a public librarian, makes websites and apps unusable to people with limited technology access, and after a few days thinking about it, I’m gotta put one of the biggest ones as two-factor authentication.

[Sarah R. Barrett @Documentalope]

To go a different direction, color theory might be familiar to a group of people, but it won't help teach wayfinding, because it's not *concrete* enough.

[Sarah R. Barrett @Documentalope]

Urban European grocery stores don't help teach wayfinding principles in Europe because they don't have enough *overlap* with the principles to illustrate it well.