“Lee Cheng on How Racism Inspired His Battle Against Patent Trolls” and other Tweeted Links…

Lee Cheng on How Racism Inspired His Battle Against Patent Trolls @iayori [linux.com]

What it would actually take to reduce rents in America's most expensive city [washingtonpost.com]

The fastest-growing cities in America [marketwatch.com]

For first time since 1880s, more young Americans live with parents than partner @tallartgirl [citylab.com]

Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015) @tamtamsworld [demos.org]

Fewer Americans Choose to Move to New Pastures [nytimes.com]

For the poor in the Ivy League, a full ride isn’t always what they imagined [washingtonpost.com]

young bruh, let her explain her lack of self realization to you via @blavity [blavity.com]

Falciani’s crime: “the largest robbery of a bank ever committed in the world.” [newyorker.com]

“We can see the behavior that results..we cannot see the forces underneath that cause certain kinds of behavior.” [stratechery.com]

There could soon be no black female CEOs among America’s largest companies [bostonglobe.com] @libertymadison [twitter.com]

TSA official got $90K bonus despite long airport lines, security bungles [arstechnica.com]

A crime-prediction algorithm may be biased against black defendants [theverge.com]

TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone [echeng.com]

American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong @iayori [developers.slashdot.org]

The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People [newyorker.com]

Afro-American Patrolmen’s League: The Fight Back Against Chicago’s Police Force [blackthen.com]

Alexander Augusta: First Black Surgeon & Highest Ranking Officer in the Union Army [blackthen.com]

Great Mississippi Flood of 1927: Thousands of African-American Lives Lost [blackthen.com]

‘Too Black to Be French’ Explores Colonial Past, Race and Persistence of Racism in France Today [shadowandact.com]

Sonny Terry: Renowned Harmonica Player and Singer [blackthen.com]

I feel like at this point the republicans could run an empty ticket, literally no candidate, and get the same voting results in November

Antibiotics’ side-effects include immune disease and fewer brain cells [arstechnica.com]

USDA gives biotech company record fine for animal welfare violations [arstechnica.com]

Meet the all-woman team of Cambodian surgeons changing the face of healthcare [blog.watsi.org]

How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legendary movie fiasco @megafunkmega [read.atavist.com]

Now Might Be as Good a Time as Any to Bring Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ to the Screen [shadowandact.com]

Watch Ousmane Sembène’s Last Video-Taped Interview Before His Death in 2007 [shadowandact.com]

ESPN Films Documentary Series ‘Spike Lee’s Lil’ Joints’ Returns 5/31 With New Films all Directed by Black Filmmakers [shadowandact.com]

FCAT 2016/African Film Festival Aims for Dialogue Between Spanish and Moroccan Shores @megafunkmega [shadowandact.com]

ADIFF Announces African American Independent Film Series Lineup (May 27-29, 2016) @megafunkmega [shadowandact.com]

Award-Winning Investigative Documentary ‘Small Small Thing: The Olivia Zinnah Story’ [shadowandact.com]

Cuban Filmmaker Lazara Rosell Albear Returns to the Magical–Realistic World of Santeria in ”Yoko Osha’ [shadowandact.com]

Africa’s Premier Film Finance & Co-Production Forum Returns for 7th Annual Event (Durban FilmMart) [shadowandact.com] @megafunkmega

Ezra Edelman’s ‘O.J.: Made In America’, the Seduction of Celebrity Juxtaposed Against Black L.A. Community [shadowandact.com]

Comixology launches Netflix-style subscription service for comics [theverge.com]

Autoencoding Blade Runner: reconstructing films with artificial neural networks @megafunkmega @avaetc [medium.com]

Demon Core: The Strange Death of Physicist Louis Slotin [newyorker.com]

48-volt mild hybrid systems: what they do, how they change the car [greencarreports.com]

Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensive batteries [slate.com]

1916 Guide Shows What the First Road Trips Were Like [phenomena.nationalgeographic.com]

The yachts of America’s Cup are faster and weirder than ever [theverge.com]

The Fusioneers, who build nuclear reactors in their back yards [washingtonpost.com]

“Internet” to be lowercase in New York Times and Associated Press [nytimes.com]

How Copyright Law Is Being Misused To Remove Material From the Internet [tech.slashdot.org]

Inventions of Mine That Have Been Misused for Evil Purposes [newyorker.com]

A Guide To Personal Side Projects [smashingmagazine.com]

Business Insider CEO: 'There Are No Must-Read Publications Any More' [spiegel.de]

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