“20 million lives at risk due to famine” and other Tweeted Links…

Ringing the alarm in Congress: 20 million lives at risk due to famine [blackstarnews.com]

How The World Bank Promotes Global "Land Grabs" [blackstarnews.com]

McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money [blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com] » @BreakingBrown

The solution to the housing crisis is extremely simple [medium.com] » @IramiOF

“Only corporations can own property, humans can only license it” – John Deere [boingboing.net] » @IramiOF, @Nnedi

Apple forces recyclers to shred its products ↦ [motherboard.vice.com]

Amazon is using peer pressure to keep German workers from calling in sick [qz.com]

The Rich Are Living Longer and Taking More From Taxpayers [bloomberg.com] » @BreakingBrown

Google is a monopoly — and it's crushing the internet [theweek.com] » @BreakingBrown

I’d Pay You $500,000 a Year, but You Can't Do the Work [linkedin.com]

The Atlantic: How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All [theatlantic.com] » @BreakingBrown

How to punish corporate misconduct without exhausting yourself [m.signalvnoise.com] » @BreakingBrown, @IramiOF

The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100,000 people - The Washington Post [washingtonpost.com]

What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord [popularmechanics.com]

Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill. [slashdot.org]

The State: As a freshman at @DukeU, I feel the effects of the “Corridor of Shame” every day. [thestate.com]

56 years ago today I was released from Parchman Penitentiary after being arrested in Jackson, MS for using a "white… [twitter.com]

Frederick Douglass’s Fiery 1852 Speech, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,” Read by James Earl Jones [openculture.com]

Remembering the World’s Oldest Person, in the Objects She Left Behind [nytimes.com] » @digitalafrican

Why the story of 2,000 African-Caribbean PoWs at Portchester Castle has remained unheard of until now… [twitter.com]

I'm always amused at the "Jay Z got his start selling drugs" as though the Kennedy's don't owe their fortune to bootlegging.

“A Massive List of Free Online University Course Providers From Around The World” @dhawalhshah [medium.freecodecamp.org]

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic [theatlantic.com]

Only 4% of Uber drivers remain on the platform a year later, says report [cnbc.com]

Evidence of the context-freeness of Natural Language (1985) [pdf] [eecs.harvard.edu]

The Brain Science of Conformity [wsj.com] » @IramiOF

Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? [bbc.com] » @Nalo_Hopkinson, @NewBlackMan, @HoodFeminism

Spending time alone is the best way to get real rest–even for extroverts [qz.com]

Steve Ballmer’s new project: find out how the government spends your money [theverge.com] » @IramiOF

Pioneering Researchers Track Sudden Learning 'Epiphanies' [news.slashdot.org]

The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development [ribbonfarm.com] » @RowenaMonde

I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry [hbr.org]

How the Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains Our Ignorance Today -- Science of Us [nymag.com] » @BreakingBrown

South Indian Frog Oozes Molecule That Inexplicably Decimates Flu Viruses [science.slashdot.org]

How three Howard University grads broke techs glass ceiling with an app [blavity.com] » @BreakingBrown

Will the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely? [theweek.com]

Explaining science won’t fix information illiteracy. [slate.com] » @digitalafrican, @Hood_Biologist

WATCH -- Florynce “Flo” Kennedy--The Life of a Black Feminist Radical -- Conversation with Historian @sherandolph… [twitter.com]

Meanwhile.. In Lagos, People are Kayaking on the Street. #climatechange [twitter.com]

a @RowenaMonde pick: Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) by Stefan Zweig [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

MoMA’s Artists’ Cookbook (1978) Reveals the Meals of Dalí, de Kooning, Warhol, Bourgeois & More… [twitter.com]

Creamy Peanut Stew with Crispy Baked Okra [bit.ly] via @chocolateforbasil [twitter.com]