La Nasa ha trasformato il suo gigantesco database non strutturato di informazioni e documenti relativi a tutte le sue missioni, andate bene o male o mai partite, in un grafo. E se non sapete cosa sia un grafo, ecco l'articolo da leggere. (Poi, vabbé: c'è la pubblicità di Nuclino, ma quella è alla fine e uno la può anche saltare).
Money quote: "The new approach immediately yielded positive results. In 2014, when a team of NASA engineers was working on Exploration Flight Test-1, an unmanned mission to send the Orion spacecraft into orbit, they discovered that Orion's uprighting system wasn't working correctly. Knowing that Apollo used a similar uprighting system to Orion, the team turned to the NASA lessons learned database. An 8-day search turned up only 3 relevant documents, none of which helped them solve the problem. In desperation, the team reportedly even visited retired Apollo astronauts at their homes to see if they had any useful documents stashed away in their attics.
Meza and his team came to the rescue, discovering over 30 relevant files in the database, which ultimately helped NASA find a solution to Orion's uprighting system problems. Without that information, the team would have had to spend years and millions of dollars testing different designs, delaying Orion's 2023 launch even further."
https://blog.nuclino.com/why-nasa-converted-its-lessons-learned-database-into-a-knowledge-graph
Money quote: "The new approach immediately yielded positive results. In 2014, when a team of NASA engineers was working on Exploration Flight Test-1, an unmanned mission to send the Orion spacecraft into orbit, they discovered that Orion's uprighting system wasn't working correctly. Knowing that Apollo used a similar uprighting system to Orion, the team turned to the NASA lessons learned database. An 8-day search turned up only 3 relevant documents, none of which helped them solve the problem. In desperation, the team reportedly even visited retired Apollo astronauts at their homes to see if they had any useful documents stashed away in their attics.
Meza and his team came to the rescue, discovering over 30 relevant files in the database, which ultimately helped NASA find a solution to Orion's uprighting system problems. Without that information, the team would have had to spend years and millions of dollars testing different designs, delaying Orion's 2023 launch even further."
https://blog.nuclino.com/why-nasa-converted-its-lessons-learned-database-into-a-knowledge-graph
Nuclino
Why NASA converted its lessons learned database into a knowledge graph
Learning from mistakes—your own and those made by others—is a mark of effective organizations. Fostering a learning environment means seeing every...
Gran gioco sull'intelligenza artificiale di The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18140796/wake-word-algorithm-text-game-ai-artificial-intelligence
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18140796/wake-word-algorithm-text-game-ai-artificial-intelligence
The Verge
Play this interactive game about the ridiculous future of bad AI
Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare
"Uncharted" sembra più un videogioco che non un film - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2022/02/uncharted-recensione-film/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2022/02/uncharted-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
"Uncharted" sembra più un videogioco che non un film
Recensione di Uncharted, film di Ruben Fleischer con Tom Holland ispirato all'omonima serie di videogiochi per PlayStation.
Un programmatore diventato criminale. E che criminale.
Money quote: "They discuss shipment methods, and how many kilos of each drug the other could move in a month. Paul owns ships already picking up loads in South America and traveling to Asia, but he much prefers to work in Africa, territory he knows well. His customers are in Australia, Thailand, China. “We are not touching the US right now,” he says.
“Why not?”"
https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-excerpt/
Money quote: "They discuss shipment methods, and how many kilos of each drug the other could move in a month. Paul owns ships already picking up loads in South America and traveling to Asia, but he much prefers to work in Africa, territory he knows well. His customers are in Australia, Thailand, China. “We are not touching the US right now,” he says.
“Why not?”"
https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-excerpt/
Wired
Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
Along the way, he contributed to America's painkiller epidemic and got involved with North Korean methamphetamine manufacturing, Somali pirates, and murder-for-hire.
La vita d'ufficio io l'ho evitata finora quasi sempre. Ma vale la pena ancora qualche riflessione al riguardo.
Money quote: "The film’s message – summed up near the end by Peter’s girlfriend, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), who also hates her waitressing job – is clear: “Peter, most people don’t like their jobs. But you go out there and you find something that makes you happy.”
Since Office Space was released in 1999, we’ve grown more aware of the absurd and dreaded aspects of office life. But how successful have we actually been in stamping them out? And do we have Office Space to thank?"
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190205-office-space-turns-20-how-the-film-changed-work
Money quote: "The film’s message – summed up near the end by Peter’s girlfriend, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), who also hates her waitressing job – is clear: “Peter, most people don’t like their jobs. But you go out there and you find something that makes you happy.”
Since Office Space was released in 1999, we’ve grown more aware of the absurd and dreaded aspects of office life. But how successful have we actually been in stamping them out? And do we have Office Space to thank?"
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190205-office-space-turns-20-how-the-film-changed-work
Bbc
Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
In 1999, the film masterfully spoofed how office life could be simultaneously mundane and ridiculous. What's different today?
Scrivere script in Common Lisp. Perché no? Ci sono vari vantaggi.
Money quote: "A script is only as powerful as the language and tools would allow. Bash and friends, for example, are great for expressing ideas, as if you are typing them on the command line itself. It emulates that behavior inside a script. You can define functions to do subroutines, but they’re just that. Functions in Bash are nowhere near functions in languages like CL. As an interactive user shell, it works fine; other than that, no."
https://ebzzry.io/en/script-lisp/
Money quote: "A script is only as powerful as the language and tools would allow. Bash and friends, for example, are great for expressing ideas, as if you are typing them on the command line itself. It emulates that behavior inside a script. You can define functions to do subroutines, but they’re just that. Functions in Bash are nowhere near functions in languages like CL. As an interactive user shell, it works fine; other than that, no."
https://ebzzry.io/en/script-lisp/
Buon vecchio Donald Trump. Intanto che aspettiamo che si ricandidi, saltano fuori sempre nuovi ed affascinanti dettagli sulla sua vita presidenziale. Come questo sul materiale classificato che si era portato a casa.
Money quote: "The discovery, which occurred after Mr. Trump returned 15 boxes of documents to the government last month, prompted the National Archives to reach out to the Justice Department for guidance, the person said. The department told the National Archives to have its inspector general examine the matter, the person said. It is unclear what the inspector general has done since then, in particular, whether the inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/politics/national-archives-trump-classified-material.html
Money quote: "The discovery, which occurred after Mr. Trump returned 15 boxes of documents to the government last month, prompted the National Archives to reach out to the Justice Department for guidance, the person said. The department told the National Archives to have its inspector general examine the matter, the person said. It is unclear what the inspector general has done since then, in particular, whether the inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/politics/national-archives-trump-classified-material.html
NY Times
Archives Found Possible Classified Material in Boxes Returned by Trump
The National Archives consulted with the Justice Department about the discovery after the former president sent back documents that he had improperly taken from the White House when he left office.
Censori al lavoro. Ecco come funziona in Russia
Money quote: "When policing online behavior in Russia, law enforcement agencies enjoy total compliance from the country’s most popular social network, Vkontakte, which coughs up users’ personal data whenever requested. This information — account registration times, linked email addresses and phone numbers, and IP addresses — constitutes sufficient evidence in court to prove that an individual is responsible for the content posted on their account. When it comes to Internet services based abroad, however, there’s no such cooperation, and Russia’s police have to get creative. In a new report for the website Mediazona, journalist Alexander Borodikhin summarizes 10 cases brought against individuals who allegedly violated Russia’s Internet laws by sharing illegal materials on foreign-operated social networks. Meduza summarizes this report."
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/03/08/creative-police-work
Money quote: "When policing online behavior in Russia, law enforcement agencies enjoy total compliance from the country’s most popular social network, Vkontakte, which coughs up users’ personal data whenever requested. This information — account registration times, linked email addresses and phone numbers, and IP addresses — constitutes sufficient evidence in court to prove that an individual is responsible for the content posted on their account. When it comes to Internet services based abroad, however, there’s no such cooperation, and Russia’s police have to get creative. In a new report for the website Mediazona, journalist Alexander Borodikhin summarizes 10 cases brought against individuals who allegedly violated Russia’s Internet laws by sharing illegal materials on foreign-operated social networks. Meduza summarizes this report."
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/03/08/creative-police-work
Meduza
Creative police work
When policing online behavior in Russia, law enforcement agencies enjoy total compliance from the country’s most popular social network, Vkontakte, which coughs up users’ personal data whenever requested. This information — account registration times, linked…
C'è un canale americano su YouTube, che parla di auto qualunque. E vale più di un trattato di sociologia che cerchi di fotografare gli Stati Uniti nel XXI secolo.
Money quote: "The channel is Regular Car Reviews, which I discovered after moving to South Korea in 2015. I’d come from Los Angeles, a city reflexively associated with a car culture of which I never partook. The same transportation-dissident impulse that kept me from driving in Southern California now compels me, in Seoul—a city whose subway system is as good as its car spotting is bad—to watch videos about the Chevrolet Camaro, the Dodge Neon, and even the Ford Pinto. It could simply be a way of securing one hoped-for benefit of expatriation: a fresh perspective on my homeland, the United States of America. Each of the more than five hundred episodes of Regular Car Reviews evaluates an automobile’s design and performance, but also reflects on that automobile’s sociological significance, goes off on non-sequitur comedic riffs ranging in vulgarity from mild to bestial, and unfailingly delivers a shot of pure twenty-first-century America."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-semiotics-of-a-1999-toyota-corolla
Money quote: "The channel is Regular Car Reviews, which I discovered after moving to South Korea in 2015. I’d come from Los Angeles, a city reflexively associated with a car culture of which I never partook. The same transportation-dissident impulse that kept me from driving in Southern California now compels me, in Seoul—a city whose subway system is as good as its car spotting is bad—to watch videos about the Chevrolet Camaro, the Dodge Neon, and even the Ford Pinto. It could simply be a way of securing one hoped-for benefit of expatriation: a fresh perspective on my homeland, the United States of America. Each of the more than five hundred episodes of Regular Car Reviews evaluates an automobile’s design and performance, but also reflects on that automobile’s sociological significance, goes off on non-sequitur comedic riffs ranging in vulgarity from mild to bestial, and unfailingly delivers a shot of pure twenty-first-century America."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-semiotics-of-a-1999-toyota-corolla
The New Yorker
The Semiotics of a 1999 Toyota Corolla
The YouTube channel Regular Car Reviews delights in cultural critiques of boring automobiles.
Alex Bertani dal 2017 è il direttore di Topolino e lo sta cambiando alla grande. Se volete rimettervi in pari (e dovete farlo) quest'articolo scritto da Alberto Brambilla su Fumettologica è semplicemente fondamentale. Topolino sta tornando il giornale a fumetti da leggere.
Money quote: "L’intervento più importante, e riuscito, sui personaggi classici di Topolino durante i primi anni di direzione Bertani riguarda i nipotini di Paperino. Qui, Quo e Qua sono sempre stati, se non indistinguibili, almeno intercambiabili. Nelle storie d’epoca parlavano addirittura all’unisono; in quelle più moderne non più, ma, a parte rarissimi casi, facevano sempre tutto in tre. La maggior parte dei lettori (ma anche degli autori) fino a pochi anni fa non avrebbe nemmeno saputo abbinare i nomi ai colori dei cappelli. Dopo che l’avevano fatto gli sceneggiatori della nuova serie delle Ducktales nel 2017, era tempo di differenziare i nipotini anche nei fumetti, anche se in modo indipendente e diverso."
https://www.fumettologica.it/2022/02/topolino-alex-bertani/
Money quote: "L’intervento più importante, e riuscito, sui personaggi classici di Topolino durante i primi anni di direzione Bertani riguarda i nipotini di Paperino. Qui, Quo e Qua sono sempre stati, se non indistinguibili, almeno intercambiabili. Nelle storie d’epoca parlavano addirittura all’unisono; in quelle più moderne non più, ma, a parte rarissimi casi, facevano sempre tutto in tre. La maggior parte dei lettori (ma anche degli autori) fino a pochi anni fa non avrebbe nemmeno saputo abbinare i nomi ai colori dei cappelli. Dopo che l’avevano fatto gli sceneggiatori della nuova serie delle Ducktales nel 2017, era tempo di differenziare i nipotini anche nei fumetti, anche se in modo indipendente e diverso."
https://www.fumettologica.it/2022/02/topolino-alex-bertani/
Fumettologica
Alex Bertani sta cambiando Topolino
La direzione presa dal Topolino di Alex Bertani: attenzione alle storie, approfondimento dei personaggi e creazione di un universo condiviso.
Un economista sostiene che sia possibile tornare a un’analisi di quello che succede senza usare la matematica. Perché a guidare gli eventi è l’economia della comunicazione (gossip, fake news, siti di autoaiuto). L’unico problema è che a dirlo è il premio Nobel Robert Shiller.
Money quote: “Now, Shiller is upsetting the ceasefire with his new thesis. “We are developing a new side of economics,” says Dennis Snower, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, who collaborates with Shiller. “The standard statistical analyses are no longer valid. They assume that we know the probabilities with which everything will occur. In reality, we are almost never in that position.””
https://marker.medium.com/robert-shiller-says-economics-needs-to-go-viral-to-save-itself-f157eceb4c7d
Money quote: “Now, Shiller is upsetting the ceasefire with his new thesis. “We are developing a new side of economics,” says Dennis Snower, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, who collaborates with Shiller. “The standard statistical analyses are no longer valid. They assume that we know the probabilities with which everything will occur. In reality, we are almost never in that position.””
https://marker.medium.com/robert-shiller-says-economics-needs-to-go-viral-to-save-itself-f157eceb4c7d
Medium
The Economist Who Wants to Ditch Math
Robert Shiller argues that gossip, half-baked philosophy, and fake news drive economics — not numbers. His peers aren’t thrilled.
Il sesso, se fatto bene e con una certa lenta sicurezza, fa molto bene. Così sostengono almeno gli antichi.
Money quote: " A poem in those texts, The Union of Yin and Yang, may be the first sex manual the world has preserved. Throughout these works, colourful metaphors describe the unhurried and careful approach to the joys of sexual intercourse. The emphasis was on exceedingly slow and gentle movements, beginning with caressing what seem to be the mysterious energy meridians within the body."
https://aeon.co/essays/lovemaking-for-longevity-a-recipe-from-tokyos-imperial-archives
Money quote: " A poem in those texts, The Union of Yin and Yang, may be the first sex manual the world has preserved. Throughout these works, colourful metaphors describe the unhurried and careful approach to the joys of sexual intercourse. The emphasis was on exceedingly slow and gentle movements, beginning with caressing what seem to be the mysterious energy meridians within the body."
https://aeon.co/essays/lovemaking-for-longevity-a-recipe-from-tokyos-imperial-archives
Aeon
Slow sex, long life
Tokyo’s imperial archives advise what science now confirms: the secret of longevity lies in the gentle arts of the bedroom
Il metaverso di Meta/Facebook/Oculus/Quest parte subito con il piede sbagliato.
Money quote: "Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60415317
Money quote: "Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60415317
Bbc
Metaverse app allows kids into virtual strip clubs
A BBC investigation witnesses grooming, sexual material and a rape threat in a virtual reality world.
È consolante sapere che c'è gente che sta messa molto peggio di te. Ti fa sentire normale.
Money quote: "These days, each time Gaudet makes her weekly rounds, she returns with more than 2,000 books but now she has "no place to put them." In late December, she posted on her store's Facebook page searching for a solution. She has a tentative plan to build a small storage building, but there are limits to what she can afford. "Nobody gets rich running a bookstore," she said. "You do it because you love books.""
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cornwall-200-000-books-barn-red-cart-books-1.6314275
Money quote: "These days, each time Gaudet makes her weekly rounds, she returns with more than 2,000 books but now she has "no place to put them." In late December, she posted on her store's Facebook page searching for a solution. She has a tentative plan to build a small storage building, but there are limits to what she can afford. "Nobody gets rich running a bookstore," she said. "You do it because you love books.""
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cornwall-200-000-books-barn-red-cart-books-1.6314275
CBC
She saved 200,000 books from the landfill and hopes to find them all a home | CBC News
Myriam Gaudet gives a new lease on life to books that aren't flying off the shelves at local thrift stores, but her success in amassing a wealth of literature has posed a problem: how to store all these books until the right buyer comes along.
Nella guerra economica con la Cina gli Usa stanno facendo un grosso errore. Hanno perso di vista l'obiettivo finale.
Money quote: "Unfortunately, in its competition with China, the U.S. is protecting its pots and recipes while putting legal pressure on the cheesecake experts within its own borders—thereby limiting the country’s ability to create new intellectual property. This is a worrisome sign that U.S. authorities are failing to understand something important: The most useful technology is not intellectual property in the form of written documents, but the unwritten knowledge in people’s heads."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/china-initiative-intellectual-property-theft/621058/
Money quote: "Unfortunately, in its competition with China, the U.S. is protecting its pots and recipes while putting legal pressure on the cheesecake experts within its own borders—thereby limiting the country’s ability to create new intellectual property. This is a worrisome sign that U.S. authorities are failing to understand something important: The most useful technology is not intellectual property in the form of written documents, but the unwritten knowledge in people’s heads."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/china-initiative-intellectual-property-theft/621058/
The Atlantic
China Hawks Don’t Understand How Science Advances
The U.S. government’s attempt to keep China from stealing technology has degenerated into a squeeze on its own scientists.
Stevie Nicks è viva e lotta assieme a noi. La musicista, una delle anime dei Fleetwood Mac (che è uno dei miei gruppi preferiti, tra parentesi) è attiva più che mai: è diventata un simbolo per molte giovani donne. E non solo. Bella intervista.
Money quote: "In the years since, Nicks’s appeal among younger generations has only grown. On TikTok, her songs provide a soundtrack to viral videos and fans pay tribute to her witchy aesthetic. Artists such as Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey have asked her to lend her voice to their songs, and she’s become “fairy godmother” to a wide circle of younger artists. For listeners, too, she has always acted as a kind of spiritual guide. In her music, loss is simultaneously earth-shattering and ordinary. Heartbreak is survivable, and possibly a key to self-knowledge. Many of her songs take place at night, in dreams or visions, “somewhere out in the back of your mind.” Her narrator frequently asks questions of herself and of some higher power, as if in constant conversation with her own intuition. When I said “Just be Stevie Nicks,” I was thinking of how her work had taught me to see such sensitivity as a source of strength. Nicks’s music is what you listen to when you need help listening to yourself."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/stevie-nicks-tavi-gevinson-conversation
Money quote: "In the years since, Nicks’s appeal among younger generations has only grown. On TikTok, her songs provide a soundtrack to viral videos and fans pay tribute to her witchy aesthetic. Artists such as Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey have asked her to lend her voice to their songs, and she’s become “fairy godmother” to a wide circle of younger artists. For listeners, too, she has always acted as a kind of spiritual guide. In her music, loss is simultaneously earth-shattering and ordinary. Heartbreak is survivable, and possibly a key to self-knowledge. Many of her songs take place at night, in dreams or visions, “somewhere out in the back of your mind.” Her narrator frequently asks questions of herself and of some higher power, as if in constant conversation with her own intuition. When I said “Just be Stevie Nicks,” I was thinking of how her work had taught me to see such sensitivity as a source of strength. Nicks’s music is what you listen to when you need help listening to yourself."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/stevie-nicks-tavi-gevinson-conversation
The New Yorker
Stevie Nicks Is Still Living Her Dreams
The rock-and-roll icon talks about style, spirits, and writing one of her best songs ever.
La guerra, la disinformazione e i social marci.
Money quote: "Richards said the ease with which these videos can be created is an issue.
“I think that their infrastructure — the literal design of the platform — is part of the problem. It is amplifying fear and misinformation,” Richards said. “TikTok’s infrastructure is structurally incompatible with the moment.”"
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/war-ukraine-sparks-new-wave-misinformation-rcna17779
Money quote: "Richards said the ease with which these videos can be created is an issue.
“I think that their infrastructure — the literal design of the platform — is part of the problem. It is amplifying fear and misinformation,” Richards said. “TikTok’s infrastructure is structurally incompatible with the moment.”"
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/war-ukraine-sparks-new-wave-misinformation-rcna17779
NBC News
Video games and fake livestreams: War in Ukraine sparks new wave of misinformation
Video game footage and fake TikTok livestreams are nascent forms of misleading content that have flourished in recent days.
Il grande scandalo dell'abbigliamento: ecco cosa succede ai vestiti che compriamo online e poi restituiamo. E tra parentesi, sono tantissimi. Sempre di più.
Money quote: "“The fashion industry, for a long time, has been able to hide from the right hand what the left hand is doing,” said Elizabeth Shobert, vice president of marketing and digital strategy at e-commerce analytics firm StyleSage, referring to the asynchronous processes of sales and returns. “The pileup in the supply chain in the last six months or so has really brought this to light.”"
https://restofworld.org/2022/shein-online-shopping-returns-what-happens/
Money quote: "“The fashion industry, for a long time, has been able to hide from the right hand what the left hand is doing,” said Elizabeth Shobert, vice president of marketing and digital strategy at e-commerce analytics firm StyleSage, referring to the asynchronous processes of sales and returns. “The pileup in the supply chain in the last six months or so has really brought this to light.”"
https://restofworld.org/2022/shein-online-shopping-returns-what-happens/
Rest of World
Here’s what actually happens to all your online shopping returns
Ordering clothes from Chinese fast-fashion brands like Shein is easy. Sending them back is a lot more complicated
Arriva la primavera. Stagione in cui si preparano le tasse. Per i freelance, negli Usa (paese fiscalmente civile visto che uno può prepararsi le tasse da solo a casa sua, basta leggere le istruzioni, non serve una laurea in economia e commercio e un esame di stato), c'è questo nuovo software con AI che lo attacchi ai tuoi conti correnti e carte di credito, lui ravana dentro tutto e poi ti tira fuori tutte le spese che puoi scaricare. Meglio di quanto tu non sapessi fare. Dal cloud.
Quando la versione italiana?
Money quote: "Truffle finds business deductions in your personal spending history. The average freelancer finds $12,931 of business deductions on Truffle."
https://www.gotruffle.com
Quando la versione italiana?
Money quote: "Truffle finds business deductions in your personal spending history. The average freelancer finds $12,931 of business deductions on Truffle."
https://www.gotruffle.com
"The Batman" è un filmone - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2022/03/the-batman-recensione-film/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2022/03/the-batman-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
"The Batman" è un filmone
Recensione di The Batman, il film di Matt Reeves interpretato da Robert Pattinson. Una storia separata dall'universo cinematografico DC.
Ancora non c'era la pandemia ma già c'era la grande fuga da Facebook (negli Usa: poi arriverà anche da noi, ricordatevelo)
Money quote: "All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show an an estimated 15 million fewer users in the United States compared to 2017. The biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group. Marketplace Tech got a first look at Edison's latest social media research. It revealed almost 80 percent of people in the U.S. are posting, tweeting or snapping, but fewer are going to Facebook."
https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-numbers-showing-users-leaving-facebook-by-the-millions
Money quote: "All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show an an estimated 15 million fewer users in the United States compared to 2017. The biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group. Marketplace Tech got a first look at Edison's latest social media research. It revealed almost 80 percent of people in the U.S. are posting, tweeting or snapping, but fewer are going to Facebook."
https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-numbers-showing-users-leaving-facebook-by-the-millions
Marketplace
U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
But that doesn’t mean people are leaving social media altogether.