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"Pellet guns are inherently inaccurate and indiscriminate, and have no place in law enforcement." [aje.io]
What does modern slavery look like? [bbc.com]
Africa’s Last Colony: Western Saharan Independence Movement Mourns Loss of Polisario Front Leader [democracynow.org]
Uber’s subprime leases put drivers on road, but leave some shackled [seattletimes.com]
Elaine 12: Black Sharecroppers Sentenced to Death during the Elaine Race Riot [blackthen.com]
The Lynching that Almost Happened “if not” for a Black Mob Protecting One of Their Own [blackthen.com]
Amphetamine use in America's workforce [daily.jstor.org]
This is when you're most popular, according to science [washingtonpost.com]
Credit Suisse Warns That Workers Are Gaining Ground and U.S. Equities May Suffer [bloomberg.com]
The Swiss Vote on Guaranteed Income Is About Rich-People’s Problems [newyorker.com]
Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons [reuters.com]
Remembering The Black Wall Street: 95 Years After The U.S. Dropped The Bombs On Us [blackthen.com]
Why the World Is Drawing Battle Lines Against American Tech Giants [nytimes.com]
a visualization of prop 50: [youtube.com]
How Did L.A. Become a City of Palms? [kcet.org]
Los Angeles Tries to Prove that It Doesn’t Necessarily Need the Car [newyorker.com]
How Much Housing Will Be Built? [ternercenter2.berkeley.edu]
Seattle area home prices set new record; 2nd-fastest rising in nation [seattletimes.com]
NASA Satellite Finds 39 Unreported Sources of Toxic Air Pollution [science.slashdot.org]
Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn [reuters.com] @mindovermunch
US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why [science.slashdot.org]
U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers [beta-congress-colleges-fun.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com]
Britain is the most corrupt country in the world? [independent.co.uk]
India rises past the US to become the internet's second biggest user [theverge.com]
Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese [nautil.us]
Why drinking in India is an 'outdoor sport' [bbc.com]
The Madman as Painter: Richard Dadd [city-journal.org]
Techies Are Trying to Turn the NBA Into the World’s Biggest Sports League [wired.com]
The Immutability of Math and How Almost Everything Else Will Pass - HackerRank Blog [blog.hackerrank.com] via @hackerrank
Intel knows it's no longer inside [theverge.com]
Nvidia CEO: We'll be solving VR immersion problems for the next 20 years [trustedreviews.com]
Free: Download 5.3 Million Images from Books Published Over Last 500 Years @mikemassenburg [openculture.com]
The Neuroscience of Op Art [artsy.net]
How a good night's sleep became the ultimate status symbol @RowenaMonde [theguardian.com]
The Surprising Importance of Stratospheric Life [nautil.us]
Brian Eno Answers Deep Questions from Music Journalist Dick Flash: The Best Eno Interview You’ll See [openculture.com]
Combinatorial Music Theory (1991) [andrewduncan.net] @megafunkmega
Lisa C. Moore Named Lambda Literary’s Publishing Professional Award Winner [lambdaliterary.org]
for my daughter @khemenut: The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Watch a machine-learning system parse the grammatical structure of sentences [foxtype.com]