“The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death” and other Tweeted Links…
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death [newyorker.com] » @tonetalks, @BreakingBrown
Online Workers Are Getting A Raw Deal, With Far More People Seeking Work Online Than There Are Jobs Available [iafrikan.com]
Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs [what about Black unemployment?] - Evonomics [evonomics.com] » @khemenutwilhite, @IramiOF
How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume [hbr.org] » @tonetalks
Populism is the result of global economic failure | Business | The Guardian [theguardian.com] » @BreakingBrown
FCC security guards manhandle reporter, eject him from meeting for asking questions [washingtonpost.com] » @BreakingBrown
Pure Silicon Valley: Medium asks $5 a month for absolutely nothing • The Register [theregister.co.uk]
Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living | WIRED [wired.com] » @iAyori
Farewell my guardian: Some Saudi women are secretly deserting their country | The Economist [economist.com] » @mmbilal
Ignore politicians: lower fuel-economy rules don't create jobs, analyst says [greencarreports.com]
Americans' Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year [news.slashdot.org]
Inside China’s Almost-Totally-Legal $400M Fishery in Africa [wired.com]
Malcolm would have been 92 today. His lifework and words at RAW Academy in Dakar from 6pm, via Wendell Hassan Marsh… [twitter.com]
The Archives: Malcolm X On Black Self-Sufficiency [blackstarnews.com] » @BreakingBrown
young bruh, most Africans first learned about empire through enslavement -Asians learned through having their own little empire
Preacher Lightfoot Murdered for Promising Blacks a Nonexistent Passage to Liberia [blackthen.com] » @BreakingBrown
Bonanza Race War of 1904: Successful Attempt to Drive Blacks Out of Coal Mines [blackthen.com]
Bessie Bruington Burke: First Black Principal of Los Angeles Public School [blackthen.com]
Carl Thomas Rowan: First African American to Hold a Seat on the National Security Council [blackthen.com]
Emory Douglas: Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party [blackthen.com]
The myth of the pristine Amazon rainforest [mpg.de]
People who have seen their work destroyed in a failed rocket launch [theatlantic.com] » @Nalo_Hopkinson
Arachnids eat as much animal food as all humans [economist.com]
AT&T, other U.S. advertisers quit Google, YouTube over extremist videos [usatoday.com]
How Noisy Is Your Neighborhood? Now There's A Map For That [tech.slashdot.org]
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware [yro.slashdot.org]
Indian software engineers are so unemployable that HCL Technologies will train high-school graduates [qz.com]
Low levels of simple chemical associated with aging, DNA damage [arstechnica.com]
The three reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber - Polygon [polygon.com]
James Baldwin's advice on writing [brainpickings.org] [twitter.com]
Every Page of Depero Futurista, the 1927 Futurist Masterpiece of Graphic Design & Bookmaking, Is Now Online [openculture.com]
Wilhelmenia Fernandez: African-American Soprano Known for 1981 Film, Diva [blackthen.com] » @RowenaMonde
Thelonious Monk Lost Album Les liaisons dangereuses 1960 Announced | Pitchfork [pitchfork.com] » @megafunkmega
Hear Jimi Hendrix’s Virtuoso Guitar Performances in Isolated Tracks:“Purple Haze,” “Third Stone from the Sun” & More [openculture.com]
Impressive surrealist photo editing by Hüseyin Şahin [designer-daily.com]
Dystopian dreams: on feminist science fiction [theguardian.com] » @Nnedi, @digitalafrican
The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott [newyorker.com]
Beautiful Renderings Resurrect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Demolished Buildings [wired.com]
Neo Nigeria Concept Art [africandigitalart.com] @digitalafrican
When “Soul” Became “Southern”: The Gentrification & Rebranding of African-American Food [bit.ly] [twitter.com]
young bruh, i will know that feminism is working when a woman that is not an officer in the Israeli army has the courage to ask me out