“The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class” and other Tweeted Links…
The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class | WIRED [wired.com]
The Decadent Veil: Black America's Wealth Illusion | The Huffington Post [huffingtonpost.com] @tonetalks
About 90 percent of those serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes in Louisiana are black. [interc.pt]
Story Of a Country Which Has Built a Centralized Biometrics Database Of 1.1B People But Appears To Be Mishandling It [yro.slashdot.org]
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone - The Verge [theverge.com]
How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules - The New York Times [nytimes.com] » @iAyori
Victorian white reality: “She was just 11 when Edward decided to make her his wife” [theatlantic.com]
young bruh, when they stop and turn to stare at you just for getting up to go to the hot water from the coffee machine then you know it’s on
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World [amazon.com] « @MikeElgan » @RowenaMonde [twitter.com]
teach this history to parents of Black children so a new generation will never kiss white ass [youtube.com] » @tonetalks, @IramiOF
“Wilmington on Fire” (Documentary on 1898 Coup d Ètat of African-American Community) [shadowandact.com] #paff @shadowandact
new black name for airport security: Aloysius Cassius King Cobra Alabaster Capitalism III » @EdGreerDestroys. @MaronzioVance, @megafunkmega
British academia's colourblind problem: "You ask about diversity but I want to be specific and talk about race". [opendemocracy.net]
Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site | Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]
Entrenched: The world’s deepest ocean trenches are packed with pollution | The Economist [economist.com]
Glacier Change and Sea Level Rise (live public talk) - YouTube [youtube.com]
The danger of artificial stupidity: “Computers lack mathematical insight” – Scientia Salon [scientiasalon.wordpress.com]
Most new, high-priced cancer drugs don’t even extend life for 10 weeks | Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]
Want to Make a Lie Seem True? Say It Again. And Again. And Again | WIRED [wired.com]
There’s more maths in slugs and corals than we can think of | Aeon Essays [aeon.co]
Bacteria bounce along walls like flies bounce along a window | Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]
A secret of many urban 20-somethings: Their parents help with the rent [boston.com] « @tonetalks, @BreakingBrown, @IramiOF
FinTech In Afrika Is Much More Than Just Mobile Money And Remittances [iafrikan.com]
The clock is ticking for Spotify - BBC News [bbc.com] » @megafunkmega
America Is Losing Its Grip: “There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.” [nautil.us]
The Big Bang’s Early Visionaries Were Beset by Bad Luck [nautil.us]
150+ Educational Websites For Lifelong Learners – Medium [medium.com]
[]( "soulphoodie [soulphoodie]") 50 Black-Owned Restaurants and Bars in Los Angeles [bit.ly] [twitter.com]
Vegan Food Feast with Monk Jeongkwan and Mister Kitchen [youtube.com] » @khemenutwilhite, @sweetpotatosoul, @ChefKorennn
Why Whole Foods is now struggling - The Washington Post [washingtonpost.com] » @MindOverMunch, @hotforfood, @sweetpotatosoul
David Foster Wallace on What’s Wrong with Postmodernism: A Video Essay [bit.ly] [twitter.com]
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture by Hortense J. Spillers… [twitter.com]
In 'Tell Me Everything' Christine Hyung-Oak Lee Finds Her 'New Self' After A Stroke [npr.org] » @rinceya, @RowenaMonde
Derrida vs. the rationalists | New Humanist [newhumanist.org.uk] » @RowenaMonde
Four Kinds of Dystopia | Darren Allen [expressiveegg.org] « @Nnedi
Is Travel Writing Dead? | Geoff Dyer | Granta Magazine [granta.com] » @OneikaTraveller
Why Great Critics Make Disastrous Judgments - The Chronicle of Higher Education [chronicle.com] » @RowenaMonde
Inside the meltdown of Evan Williams' startup, Medium - Business Insider [businessinsider.com] » @iAyori
Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets? | Atlas Obscura [atlasobscura.com] » @megafunkmega @RowenaMonde
Why We Love Vivaldi's "Four Seasons": An Animated Music Lesson | Open Culture [openculture.com]
Rick James Analysis [youtube.com] » @megafunkmega, @HumptyFunk, @questlove, @mikemassenburg
RIP King Of Rock And Roll Mr Chuck Berry. On Behalf of @PublicEnemyFTP and @prophetsofrage it was fitting for me to… [twitter.com]
the main character in SKULL ISLAND is China ([en.wikipedia.org]) so Godzilla vs. King Kong will symbolically be Japan vs. China
young bruh, @JohnBoyega could have been the first young celebrity to sincerely apologize to an elder Black man, @SamuelLJackson, in history
A Synopsis of Your Failed Relationships, or Why You’re Now Married to an Invisible Man - The New Yorker [newyorker.com]
The Loneliness of Longing for Other People’s Apartments - The New Yorker [newyorker.com]
“The fundamental fallacy of utopianism is to assume that everyone wants to live in the same utopia.” [brainpickings.org]