“Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent” and other tweeted links…

Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent [nytimes.com]

China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet [yro.slashdot.org] » @breakingbrown

LA mayor calls on CA to modify rent control [abc7.com]

Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ's Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended [democracynow.org] » @newblackman

BREAKING: A victory against debtors' prisons! South Carolina courts have recalled thousands of arrest warrants agai… [twitter.com]

GOP Mass Murder Guidelines [twitter.com]

"Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned t… [twitter.com]

When Hitler Looked to America: A Review of 'Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race… [twitter.com]

Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than previously thought [arstechnica.com]

Barbados 1816: Bussa’s Rebellion [blackthen.com] » @tmrdevelops

The Decline of the American Laundromat [theatlantic.com]

A brief history of credit cards [a16z.com]

The man who has focused on the word 'Macedonia' for 23 years [bbc.com]

young bruh, to think that anti-segregation means anti-slavery is to fail to respect the depths of intimacy around slavery🙈🙉🙊💩

"The Truth About Voodoo" Here is a clip from the #1 documentary film in the country, 1804: The Hidden History of Ha… [twitter.com]

The Lethality of Loneliness [newrepublic.com]

Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? [aeon.co]

The $1 Billion Misunderstanding of Aging - Facts So Romantic [nautil.us]

Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico [theguardian.com]

Distribution of scientific results should be in the hands of the scientist [experiment.com] » @newblackman

The "Science" That 1930s Automotive Designers Used to Determine Car Shapes [core77.com]

Environmental study looms for proposed 300-unit Torrance apartment complex [dailybreeze.com]

Psychologists say more and more young people are entitled [indy100.com]

Kitchen sponges are festering germ dens—and sanitizing them doesn’t help [arstechnica.com]

I broke my iPhone 7, and I'm so glad I didn't have AppleCare+ [imore.com]

Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair [theverge.com]

US Scientists, Please Run for Office. The Planet Needs You [wired.com]

.@TalibKweli speaks on his silencing by Twitter following exchange with an alt-right lawyer [uproxx.it]

Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys is getting a new BBC radio drama [syfy.com]

Chadwick Boseman crowned "Most Popular U.S. Actor in China" — black talent does sell overseas… [twitter.com]

Pleased to present the great Charles Burnett with his AMPAS Governors Award tonight. Giant of independent film. Leg… [twitter.com]

A passionate @ava Duvernay presents Honorary Oscar to filmmaker Charles Burnett (“Killer of Sheep” and “To Sleep wi… [twitter.com]

I watched this about a week ago on line and had no idea I was enjoying the cinematography of Bradford Young - yet a… [twitter.com]

Why I am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto- Jessa Crispin [lesreveriesderowena.wordpress.com] @rowenamonde

Curated list of free books [github.com]

Argentinians Are So Sick of the Media, They’re Inventing Their Own [wired.com]

Discover the Jacobean Traveling Library: The 17th Century Precursor to the Kindle [openculture.com]

3D Scans of 7,500 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Download & 3D Print Rodin’s Thinker & More [openculture.com]

The Earliest Known Film and Sound Recordings of the Jimi Hendrix Experience From 1967 [laughingsquid.com]

New York Public Library now offers free Criterion Collection streaming to all members [theverge.com]

The Internet Archive "Liberates" Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online… [twitter.com]

These were the first cookbooks published by black people in America [bit.ly] via @SmithsonianMag [twitter.com]

Every Internet argument has these characters: 1) The person who responds to a position you did not take. 2) The per… [twitter.com]