“One Step Closer to a Closed Internet” and other Tweeted Links…

One Step Closer to a Closed Internet [blog.mozilla.org]

Saying "No to Silence": Hear Murdered Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez in His Own Words [democracynow.org]

US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High [nytimes.com] » @tonetalks

Record low housing inventory is 'freaking us out' says Redfin CEO [cnbc.com]

U.S. military is expanding special forces operations Africa [news.vice.com]

Why Harvard Business School Is Under Fire [economist.com] » @BreakingBrown

Why the Ford Foundation launched a program for formerly incarcerated people—and how we did it [blackstarnews.com]

Unemployment in the U.S. Is Falling, So Why Isn’t Pay Rising? [bloomberg.com] » @BreakingBrown

Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage [epi.org] » @BreakingBrown

Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt [bloomberg.com] » @BreakingBrown

Whose Parents Pay for College? [priceonomics.com] » @BreakingBrown, @khemenutwilhite

Recent Graduates Are Most Likely to Work in Sales, Making around $40K [bloomberg.com] » @khemenutwilhite, @BreakingBrown

The Heroin Business Is Booming in America [bloomberg.com]

to @BreakingBrown: “Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future” [nytimes.com]

Coffin Homes: Living in Tiny Spaces As a Last Resort [mymoneyblog.com]

Solo 401k – Best Retirement Plan for Self-Employed Business Owners [mymoneyblog.com]

[]( "Frank Deale [fdeale]") An Annual Compendium of Black Photography that Was a Revolutionary Act [hyperallergic.com]

How Impeachment Ended Up in the Constitution [newyorker.com]

William Du Bois: The First African-American to earn a Doctorate [blackthen.com]

Ida B. Wells: Journalist and Activist [blackthen.com]

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages[bit.ly] [twitter.com]

Why one search engine for the whole internet is not a good idea anymore [dynamicguy.com]

Google’s Perfect Future Will Always Be Just Around The Corner | WIRED [wired.com] » @BreakingBrown

Researchers Grow Brain Cells on a Chip [spectrum.ieee.org] » @Nnedi

How we invented new ways to teach Japanese [making.duolingo.com] » @khemenutwilhite

'Without Action on Antibiotics, Medicine Will Return To the Dark Ages' [science.slashdot.org]

Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts [theguardian.com]

Fraunhofer promoted MP3 as “dead”, because they get money from AAC patents [via-corp.com] » @megafunkmega

How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable [theconversation.com] » @BreakingBrown

Biology needs more staff scientists [nature.com] » @Hood_Biologist

Where Have All the Insects Gone? - Slashdot [science.slashdot.org]

How Thick Is the Floor Between Two Levels? | Hunker [hunker.com]

How Can I Tell if an Apartment Has Adequate Soundproofing Before Moving In? | Apartment Therapy [apartmenttherapy.com]

The Pioneering Physics TV Show, The Mechanical Universe, Is Now on YouTube: 52 Complete Episodes from Caltech [openculture.com]

Guillermo del Toro Creates a List of His 20 Favorite Art House/Criterion Films [openculture.com]

Everything Thing You Ever Wanted to Know About the Synthesizer: A Vintage Three-Hour Crash Course [openculture.com]

Inside the Offices Where the Music Never Stops and Everyone Is DJ [bloomberg.com] » @BreakingBrown

.@questlove: rhythm is an abstract, space-time celebration of reliability and efficiency

.@questlove: polyrhythm is a celebration of simultaneous community and individuality, jamming freedom and respect for others together

.@questlove: 4x4 mono-rhythm is a single-threaded, military-marching, imperative architecture

.@questlove: polyrhythm is a multithreaded operating system of space-time compression algorithms

After a Century In Decline, Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise [bit.ly] via @yesmagazine [twitter.com]

Frugal Entrepreneur Earns $5,600 a Month Farming Other People’s Yards [mymoneyblog.com]

The Quest to Make a Super Tomato [luckypeach.com] » @MindOverMunch

Daniel Pocock: Hacking the food chain in Switzerland [danielpocock.com] » @MindOverMunch

BBC - Future - How army rations helped change food [bbc.com] » @MindOverMunch, @hotforfood, @soulphoodie

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