Five Link Friday - 009

2025-03-21T00:00:00-08:00

Native applications are doomed

A fifteen year old article describing the trend web applications taking over native applications that is quite prevalent now.

DJ Rush | Boiler Room Rotterdam

Excellent hard techno set from an old-school Chicago house DJ.

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

The Facebook study that describes how a person can be emotionally manipulated by altering the contents of a social network feed. This is the study where they used minors on their platform as test subjects without knowledge or consent from the minors or their parents.

From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans

A poll showing how much Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of many majority groups.

Is the Drought Over? Reflections on California’s Recent Flood-Drought Combo

An article sharing a bunch of details on the state of the drought in California, which is important to stay informed about, not just for us Californians, but also for everybody across the globe that eats produce grown in California.