“College Students Go to Court Over Sexual Assault” and other Tweeted Links…
College Students Go to Court Over Sexual Assault [newyorker.com]
“Apple systematically bans apps that endorse abortion rights or would help women find abortions” @tamtamsworld [stallman.org]
The Despair of Poor White Americans [theatlantic.com]
And the new owners of Cetera Financial Group will be ... [investmentnews.com] via @newsfromIN
You May Be Broke and Not Know It [bloomberg.com]
More Old Than Young: A Population Plague Spreads Around the Globe [bloomberg.com]
For Africa To Grow And Transform The Agricultural Sector, We Need To Cut Down Post-Harvest Losses [iafrikan.com]
Despite A Lack Of Investment In STEM Education, Kenya's Tech Startup Ecosystem Is Thriving [iafrikan.com]
What We Can All Learn From Mark Zuckerberg's Visit To Nigeria [iafrikan.com]
Murdered by a SWAT Team for Traffic Tickets: Inside the Police Killing of Black Mother Korryn Gaines [democracynow.org]
DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash [usatoday.com]
Postal workers arrested across SoCal for stealing mail, cell phones, drugs [abc7.com]
Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world [thesmartset.com]
Silicon Valley’s geeks are trying to turn themselves into jocks [economist.com] @libertymadison
Google removes Palestine from map replaces it with Israel [breakingisraelnews.com]
How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History [nytimes.com]
The world's first website went online 25 years ago today [telegraph.co.uk]
Square Enix Graphics Designer Manabu Daishima Has Died [animenewsnetwork.com]
August 7, 1930: The Last Confirmed Lynching Of Blacks In The Northern United States Occurs In Marion, Indiana. [blackthen.com]
August 7, 1948: Alice Coachman Becomes The 1st Black Woman To Win A Olympic Gold Medal. [blackthen.com]
It’s Really Hard to Make Money as an Olympian [wired.com]
Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women [atlasobscura.com]
Hockey In Colour [blackthen.com]
Dorm Life [blackthen.com]
Why We Pine for Manufacturing [newyorker.com]
These Are The Barriers E-Commerce Needs To Overcome Before It Can Really Take Off In Africa [iafrikan.com]
Almost every Volkswagen sold since 1995 can be unlocked with an Arduino [arstechnica.com]
I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £75 [vice.com]
Trump Economic Plan Calls for Every American to Inherit Millions from Father [newyorker.com]
Hulu is eliminating its free, ad-supported streaming service [theverge.com]
I’m thinking that @avaetc is the only serious answer Oprah has to those bell hooks critiques from the past
Plug-in hybrid problem: buyers don't understand them at all [greencarreports.com]
The Social Network in Your Gut @mindovermunch [newyorker.com]
also on PDF somewhere: Notes on the Synthesis of Form [amazon.com] recommended by @MrAlanCooper
Marilyn Monroe's unpublished poems – the complex private person behind the public persona [brainpickings.org] [twitter.com]
on kindle: Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
.@ReadEngDee reviews Beauty Is a Woundby Eka Kurniawan [youtube.com] @amazon:[amazon.com] [twitter.com]
.@ReadEngDee reviews The Healing by Jonathan Odell [youtube.com] @amazon: [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Brain wiring needed for reading isn’t learned—it’s in place prior to reading [arstechnica.com] @RowenaMonde
In the Only Surviving Recording of Her Voice, Virginia Woolf Explains Why Writing Isn’t a “Craft” (1937) [openculture.com]
N.K. Jemisin Has a Plan for Diversity in Science Fiction [wired.com]
Brazilian street artist Edoardo Kobra Unveils Massive Unity Mural for the Rio Olympics [supertouchart.com]
“Terrifyingly Beautiful” Feature Documentary ‘Cahier Africain’ Makes a Splash at Locarno [shadowandact.com]
Find Out How an Indie Production Company Is Run in New Series ‘INSIDE Issa Rae Productions’ [shadowandact.com]
#TBT 1963 Sunset & Cahuenga, the is the same year the Cinerama Dome aka @ArcLightCinemas opened! @Variety [twitter.com]
like Stevie Wonder did not want outlive Prince, Oprah should not want to “remember” @avaetc
.@naturedocquotes this was a reference to the Drakensberge [en.wikipedia.org]
@KinteSpace [ubari sand sea] the inside of the rocks had gone #flickr [flic.kr]
bullet proof but not white-vagina-proof @doubletoasted_ [youtube.com] @MaronzioVance @megafunkmega @Reelblack