“America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality” and other Tweeted Links…

America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality [wpo.st]

Why Mass Incarceration Doesn't Pay [nytimes.com]

#Ferguson protester Joshua Williams sentenced to 8 years for arson during a protest! [dailyhaze.com]

Chris Rock: There'd Be Riots If People Knew What Being Rich Was Really Like [huffingtonpost.com] via @HuffPostBiz

before Obama smoked his political "friend" Gaddafi, China had to evacuate ~30,000 people and take property losses [youtube.com]

The Unintended Consequences of Trying to Replicate Research [slate.com]

The rhythm tracks in AUTOMATIC and SOMETHING IN THE WATER are so vastly different -can @questlove research an equivalent in hip hop? #Prince

psssssh THAT WAS HIP HOP!!! [twitter.com]

@questlove@KinteSpace I think Prince invented drum & bass with something in the water

Prince was a world-class musician and had more beats, bass and rhythm patterns than the entire output hip hop to date.

Prince, a Master of Playing Music and Distributing It [nytimes.com]

Prince was to me the last American pop artist that framed female sexuality in a context completely outside of commerce.

The Story Behind Prince’s Legendary Floppy Disks [nymag.com]

Like Bob Marley before and Seal after, Prince was a serious Christian pop artist -like Son House, Prince “struggled” with sacred-v-worldly.

Bill Butler Shares Memories of Working w/ Prince [youtube.com] @Reelblack @anildash

Not All Practice Makes Perfect [nautil.us]

What is the point of diversity assignments for minorities? [blavity.com]

Suicides are rising in the United States, and no one really knows why [vox.com] via @voxdotcom

Why black women should start talking about depression now [blavity.com]

[]( "Arctic Pussy [TamTamsWorld]") I think one of the hardest things about being dark skinned is the assumption others have, that you must hate your skin colour.

[]( "Arctic Pussy [TamTamsWorld]") And some people seem to find it offensive when you're a dark skinned woman and you do not hate your skin colour.

@TamTamsWorld it’s like a slave that knows how to read.

@TamTamsWorld especially when this happens WITHIN the family.

Is self-care a privileged act? [blavity.com]

The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You [npr.org]

Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy [edge.org]

“his golf talent has seemed to be an expression of his genius, not the genius itself” [espn.go.com]

Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes [slate.com]

A Free Trip to the World's Largest Electronic Waste Dump [core77.com]

The US Is Playing a Dangerous Game of Musical Chairs With Nuclear Waste [wired.com]

Congress clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago [boingboing.net]

Discovery of 4,500-year-old female mummy sheds light on ancient Peru [theguardian.com]

The Biggest Problems You'll Run into When Renovating an Old House [lifehacker.com]

Almost Nothing About the 'Apple Harvests Gold From iPhones' Story Is True [apple.slashdot.org]

Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, windows won’t close [techcrunch.com]

The Face: Cartography of the Void by @chrisabani [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

Why Write in English? [nybooks.com]

young bruh, we used to say, “word is born” which got cut down to “word”--- finally it’s the commercially-successful, traditional “n-word”

The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun [nytimes.com] [twitter.com]

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