“Congress is trying to give even more power to Hollywood” and other Tweeted Links…

Congress is trying to give even more power to Hollywood [theverge.com]

Republicans didn’t just strip away Internet privacy rights [washingtonpost.com]

Google employee collapsed on the job; coworkers say corp. culture is to blame [businessinsider.com]

How I legally got scammed for $250 by an upscale apartment complex [medium.com]

Tech’s Wealthy Enclaves Hurt the Country–and Tech Itself [wired.com] » @iAyori

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl [newyorker.com] » @digitalafrican, @RowenaMonde

Why Were Economists as a Group as Useless Over 2010-2014 as Over 1929-1935? [bradford-delong.com]

People Are Paying to Work in Bars and Restaurants [bloomberg.com]

Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse [svpow.com] » @NewBlackMan

Environmental Justice + Sustainability + Political Pragmatism in the Black Belt or What #45 Might Could Learn… [twitter.com]

[]( "₦EӾUS [subzerov690]") Send him to jail. Unbelievable..Eric Trump funneled $100G meant for child cancer research to dad [nydn.us]

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law [amazon.com] « @BreakingBrown… [twitter.com]

Robert F. Williams: Considered by Many to be the Greatest Leader of the Civil Rights Movement [blackthen.com]

That Arizona even has Confederate monuments, despite not being a state for another 50 years, tells you this has nev… [twitter.com]

How sloppy science creates worthless cures and wastes billions [arstechnica.com]

Filming mosquitoes reveals a completely new approach to flight [arstechnica.com]

Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear [wired.com]

Love in the Time of Cryptography [backchannel.com]

Why Japan's Rail Workers Can't Stop Pointing at Things - Atlas Obscura [atlasobscura.com] » @khemenutwilhite

An Aircraft Design That’ll Make You Love the Middle Seat. No Joke [wired.com] » @OneikaTraveller

Tesla: No algorithm prevents sudden acceleration into fixed objects [arstechnica.com]

Why Ethiopia is building a space programme [economist.com]

Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies [latimes.com]

Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data [hardware.slashdot.org]

Scheider Electric Egypt & North East Africa Signs Agreement With ITIDA To Establish Engineering Lab In Borg El-Arab [iafrikan.com]

Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water [bbc.com]

How the Roland TR808 revolutionized music [theverge.com]

Book Trailer: Brittney Cooper -- 'Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women'… [twitter.com]

The movie business is in denial [theverge.com] « @megafunkmega

Harry Shearer: Why My 'Spinal Tap' Lawsuit Affects All Creators [rollingstone.com]

Ask HN: Why are more and more websites asking for phone numbers? [news.ycombinator.com]

Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Screenwriting [medium.com]

Chocolate City: Photo Essay on Africa/China Relationship [africandigitalart.com] » @digitalafrican

Circle, an Award-Winning Full Film Made With Blender [blendernation.com]

The Graphic Designer Who Maps the World’s Cities by Smell [newyorker.com]

Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future [openculture.com]

young bruh, the funniest moment in music video history was that Beastie Boys bald dude whippin it… [twitter.com]

#UnderTheSoulCovers: “Strawberry Letter 23” -- Shuggie Otis + The Brothers Johnson [newblackmaninexile.net] [twitter.com]

Arthur Robinson, aka Mr. Okra, has been delivering fresh produce in the back of his pickup truck… [twitter.com]

🌶🥕🥗26-Year-Old Howard Alum Launches Low-Cost Organic Grocery Store In L.A. [bit.ly] via… [twitter.com]

6 Successful Farms Promoting the Resurgence of Black Agrarians [bit.ly] via @atlblackstar [twitter.com]