“Today Marks 31 Years Since Philadelphia Police Bombed Its Own Residents” and other Tweeted Links…
Today Marks 31 Years Since Philadelphia Police Bombed Its Own Residents [colorlines.com] via @colorlines
We’re in an amazing black cultural moment. Cue predictable white backlash | Syreeta McFadden [gu.com]
Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California [yro.slashdot.org]
Once Again, Thieves Enter Swift Financial Network and Steal [nytimes.com]
How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending [politico.com]
A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela [thetimes.co.uk]
“Do Not Resist” and the Crisis of Police Militarization [newyorker.com]
Philadelphia cops admit they put Google Maps sticker on surveillance vehicle [arstechnica.com]
Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome [nytimes.com]
Cannes: Feature Documentary ‘The Chocolate Case’ Tackles Cocoa Industry’s Children Labor Practices (Video) [shadowandact.com]
Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever [wired.com]
An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death [nytimes.com]
This ingestible origami 'robot' is made of meat and unfolds in your stomach [theverge.com]
Homocysteine: One of the Best Objective Markers of How Healthy You Are @mindovermunch [drbenkim.com]
44% of American bee colonies died in the last year, the highest... [guardian.tumblr.com]
Researchers made a drone that can land on walls like an insect [theverge.com]
Lumpkin’s Jail/The Devil’s Half Acre: The Largest Antebellum Trading Site for Enslaved Blacks [blackthen.com]
Art Institute of Chicago Presents INVISIBLE MAN: GORDON PARKS AND RALPH ELLISON IN HARLEM, 5/21 [broadwayworld.com]
Congressman John Lewis’ graphic novel will now be taught in New York public schools [blavity.com]
George Moses Horton: First African-American Poet Published in the South [blackthen.com]
Before there was a Zora Neale Hurston or Toni Morrison, there was Frances E. W. Harper [yourblackeducation.com]
Meet the Black Woman Architect Behind the New Smithsonian Museum [blackyouthproject.com] via @blackyouthproj
Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor [recode.net]
4 Ways to Protect Against the Very Real Threat of Ransomware [wired.com]
Website closes; creates physical archive designed to last 10,000 years @megafunkmega [theverge.com]
China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices [it.slashdot.org]
A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant [washingtonpost.com]
The Small London Company That Makes the World's Most Beautiful Globes @tamtamsworld [atlasobscura.com]
The Information Age Is Over; Welcome to the Experience Age [techcrunch.com]
Camille Dungy - Red Hen Press at the Geffen [youtube.com]
WHAT TO EAT, WHAT TO DRINK, WHAT TO LEAVE FOR POISON by CAMILLE DUNGY [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
on Kindle: I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille Dungy [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Smith Blue (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Camille Dungy [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jericho Brown [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
on Kindle: Honest Engine: Poems by Kyle Dargan [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
The History of Anonymity: Poems by Jennifer Chang [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Open Call for Artists Living and Working in Cities That Aren’t New York or Los Angeles to Share Your Experiences [shadowandact.com]
Amazon will start selling its own private-label groceries, diapers, and more [arstechnica.com]
$5 cheaper at Costco: Hoody's Organic Raw Unsalted Unroasted Whole Cashews (2.5 lbs) [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
$3 cheaper at Costco: Namaste Foods Gluten Free Hearty Vegetable Soup (Pack of 12) [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
young bruh, when Battlefield 1 drops a lot of adult kids are going to find out that Africans and Indians were soldiers in WWI...?
At last, a sci-fi movie that accurately captures the horrors of dating [arstechnica.com]
“the celibacy streak has made him feel 19 again” [theonion.com] via @theonion @tamtamsworld