“Silicon Valley wants to trick us into thinking capitalism is revolutionary” and other Tweeted Links…
Silicon Valley wants to trick us into thinking capitalism is revolutionary [qz.com]
Apple, Google, Microsoft: We Have No Government Email Scanning Program Like Yahoo's [yro.slashdot.org]
Police use-of-force data is finally coming to light [techcrunch.com]
Not One New York Police Officer Has a Body Camera [nytimes.com]
'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows [science.slashdot.org]
Why It’s So Hard to Get Solar in Florida (That’d Be the Sunshine State) [wired.com]
The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the loss in dead trees [latimes.com]
Decade-long droughts may be in US Southwest’s near future [arstechnica.com]
Women in geoscience get worse recommendation letters than men [theverge.com]
Lessons from Tanzania’s Digitization of Person-to-Government Payments [iafrikan.com]
Evidence for a limit to human lifespan [nature.com]
Denmark is on its way to becoming an organic food country [foodrevolution.org]
Medicine Nobel goes to the man who figured out how cells digest themselves [arstechnica.com]
It's All Systems Go For Kenya's Digital Learning Project As Devices Arrive From China [iafrikan.com]
Dwayne McDuffie: Co-Founder of “Milestone Media,” Black Owned and Operated Comic Company [blackthen.com]
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Ava DuVernay’s Film "13th" Examines Racist U.S. Justice System [democracynow.org]
Review: Clear & Straightforward ’13th’ Is a Sobering Look at Our Flawed Prison & Judicial Systems @avaetc [shadowandact.com]
“Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department..” [theintercept.com]
Afrika Has Far To Go Before Access To Quality Education For All Becomes A Possibility [iafrikan.com]
The Desegregation and Resegregation of Charlotte’s Schools [newyorker.com]
Police complaints drop 93 percent after deploying body cameras [techcrunch.com]
Verizon workers can now be fired if they fix copper phone lines [arstechnica.com]
Jack L. Cooper: First African-American Radio Broadcaster, Known as the “Radio Mogul” [blackthen.com]
October 2, 1967: Thurgood Marshall Is Sworn In As Justice Of United States Supreme Court [blackthen.com]
Breaking The Silence -- All Day Forum Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Congo Invasion [blackstarnews.com]
October 4, 1951: Henrietta Lacks Died From Cervical Cancer At Johns Hopkins Hospital [blackthen.com]
What Life Was Like for Teenagers in Ancient Rome: Get a Glimpse from a TED-ED Animation [openculture.com]
Martha Euphemia Haynes: First Black American Woman to Earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics @iayori [blackthen.com]
October 6, 1923: Jack Trice Is Fatally Assaulted On The Football Field [blackthen.com]
Judith Jamison: Renowned Ballet Dancer and Choreographer [blackthen.com]
Happy Birthday Fannie Lou Hamer [blackthen.com]
Happy Birthday To The Mac Man [blackthen.com]
Staggering Photos of Colossal Industry Around the World [wired.com]
Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious [aeon.co]
When Science Fiction Becomes Real: Octavia E. Butler's Legacy [daily.jstor.org]
Yoruba Cultural Institute, Yoruba Classes [blackstarnews.com]
This nightmarish animated short based on Stephen King's The Long Walk took five years to make @megafunkmega [theverge.com]
Nat Geo to Air Nat Turner Documentary ‘Rise Up: The Legacy of Nat Turner’ Executive Produced By Nate Parker [shadowandact.com]
the @reelblack review of NATION [youtube.com]
Anna Deavere Smith’s Public-Interest Theatre [newyorker.com]
You Can Finally Own a Copy of Salvador Dalí’s Wild Cookbook [wired.com]