“Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor” and other Tweeted Links…

Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor [vox.com]

“10 shootings a day: Complex causes of Chicago’s spiking violence” and other Tweeted Links…: 10 shootings a day: Com... [bit.ly]

The Criminalization of Poverty: Woman Describes Fines & Arrests After $1.07 Check Bounces [democracynow.org]

Healthcare: 4.5 Million Children Still Uninsured [blackstarnews.com]

People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars [buzzfeed.com]

Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans [news.slashdot.org]

Underground Airlines is one of the bleakest alternate histories ever [arstechnica.com] @readengdee @rowenamonde

September 3, 1838: Frederick Douglass Successfully Escapes Slavery [blackthen.com]

Bags of Cocaine Worth $56M Are Found at Coca-Cola Factory in France [nytimes.com]

Even the Rich Are Being Priced Out of Central London [citylab.com]

The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot [motherboard.vice.com]

Mapping Traffic Fatalities [lucaspuente.github.io]

German man convicted of setting rash of Los Angeles fires [topix.com]

on C-SPAN: IN DEPTH with Gerald Horne: Sunday, October 2nd, Noon-3pm ET Author and historian Gerald Horne wil... [bit.ly]

"black unity" is almost always confused with tight social bonding based on traditional fighting over scarce resources -no such tradition

"why can't we unify" almost always means "why can't we cower together in fear, suppressing our traditional diversity"

envy of another's "unity" often reveals a failure to study the history -how many had to die for such "unity"?

FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective [arstechnica.com]

Malibu school district ordered to remove toxic substances from several campuses by 2019 [abc7.com]

UK will phase out microbeads in cosmetics by the end of 2017 [theverge.com]

cosmetics empower people to control the history of their blemishes and clearly define or even redefine a story of symmetrical simplicity

A dealer trainer tried to buy a car; he now calls car dealers 'clueless' [greencarreports.com]

Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes [cbc.ca]

Jamaican Stew, Callaloo, Plaintain & Summer Corn Slam [youtube.com] @OvercookedVegan => @blackvegansrock @VeganSoulFest

The Black Sea has lost more than a third of its habitable volume [sciencebulletin.org]

West Africa's First Mirror Project Is Making Open-Source Software Easier To Access In The Region [iafrikan.com]

Twitter Is Finally Starting to Wake Up to Reality and Consider Selling Itself [thestreet.com]

43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach [techcrunch.com]

Teens Who Say No to Social Media [wsj.com]

FTC Warns Consumers: Don't Sync To Your Rental Car! [tech.slashdot.org]

Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects [jeremyaboyd.com]

I liked a @YouTube video [youtu.be] Lisa Fischer June 2016 complete interview

Employers Find ‘Soft Skills’ Like Critical Thinking in Short Supply [wsj.com]

Watch the evolution of stop-motion film in this 3-minute video [theverge.com]

Obduction’s Beautiful World Is a Worthy Successor to Myst [wired.com]

Deborah Riley Draper on @Reelblack [youtube.com]

Kandinsky, Marc & Der Blaue Reiter / Fondation Beyeler [vernissage.tv]

Watch Now for Free: ‘A Good Man’ (Feature Documentary on Acclaimed Choreographer Bill T. Jones) [shadowandact.com]

. . . .And Now For Something Completely Different: “No Images”, Sung By Nina Simone [kathmanduk2.wordpress.com]

Nope, printed books aren’t going out of style [theverge.com]