“Another Blow to Holding Banks Accountable for the Financial Crisis” and other Tweeted Links…

Another Blow to Holding Banks Accountable for the Financial Crisis [newyorker.com]

Granddaughter of Exxon Scientist Confronts CEO over Oil Giant’s Decision to Fund Climate Lies [democracynow.org]

‘It harkens to slave auctions’ — Native Americans implore France... [guardian.tumblr.com]

The Venture-Capital Arm of “Sesame Street” [newyorker.com]

Kay Jewelers accused of swapping diamonds with fakes [wreg.com]

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu [economist.com]

Why the US Military turned a hipster tattoo parlor into a special operations lab [washingtonpost.com]

An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories [smithsonianmag.com]

Violette N. Anderson: First Black Female Attorney to Practice Before U.S. Supreme Court [blackthen.com]

Nelson Talbot Gant: Freed Slave Who Fought for His Wife’s Freedom [blackthen.com]

Juliet Miles: Died in Prison Trying to Save Her Children from Slavery [blackthen.com]

I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb [medium.com]

Someone's trying to gut America's strongest biometric privacy law [theverge.com]

“glib and frivolous invocations of Hitler, or Nazis, or the Holocaust, are a kind of forgetting” [ibtimes.co.uk]

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

Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash [geekwire.com]

San Francisco's Increasing Dominance Over U.S. [patent requests] [citylab.com]

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘dictator’ of Facebook ‘nation’: The Pirate Bay founder [cnbc.com]

“When you live as a poor person in a rich city like Munich, it's twice as bad.” [spiegel.de]

Child dies after falling in front of car during 'horseplay' in Simi Valley [abc7.com]

The Exodus out of California and it’s Affect on Real Estate Values [realwealthnetwork.com]

Armed FBI agents raid home of researcher who found unsecured patient data [arstechnica.com]

The weird thing that happens when you put more women in the boardroom @tamtamsworld [washingtonpost.com]

“Most of the time, I don’t feel like a girl, I feel like a programmer” @tmrdevelops [sarahbradburyblog.wordpress.com]

Old gold: fantastically insightful, extremely brief article about the art of Diane Arbus by Hilton Als. [newyorker.com]

37th Durban International Film Festival Sets Hefty Lineup of 101 Feature Films (74 Are African-Made) [shadowandact.com]

A work from 1616 called 'the first science fiction novel' [theguardian.com]

Celebrate Miles Davis With This Interactive Website Mapping HIs Creative Universe [fastcocreate.com] [twitter.com]

The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society [wired.com]

“Hi, I'm French-new Caledonian artist and i'm using Blender for my art” [blendernation.com]

‘Raising Bertie’ Is an Intimate Portrait of 3 African American Boys Coming of Age in Rural North Carolina [shadowandact.com]

checking out THE BIRTH OF SAKEon @netflix [birthofsake.com] @MindOverMunch @OvercookedVegan [twitter.com]

Are robots as good as human surgeons? [telegraph.co.uk]

NYC law requires businesses to feed food waste to giant metal ORCAs [arstechnica.com]

“In some spots of our genome, we are more Neanderthal than human” [quantamagazine.org]

Russia has a new robot soldier and it's a little troubling [news.vice.com]

Google's cool tech and creepy interactions [sixcolors.com]

Facebook and Microsoft Are Laying a Giant Cable Across the Atlantic [wired.com]

11 real struggles for black girls with eczema [prolly no mention of acid/alkaline balance] @blavity [blavity.com]

Why going paleo while broke was a huge problem for me [blavity.com] @mindovermunch @overcookedvegan

New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, and Handle Its Own Waste [fastcoexist.com]

This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings [thebetterindia.com]

Make robots smarter - Ayanna Howard [youtube.com] @libertymadison

Loop quantum gravity theory offers glimpse beyond the event horizon [phys.org]

Iron floating into the sea on aerosols is driving a loss of oxygen [arstechnica.com]

All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020 [english.eu2016.nl]

Soon You’ll Swallow Origami Pills and Get Magnetic Colonoscopies @megafunkmega [wired.com]

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