“The great British Brexit robbery” and other Tweeted Links…
The great British Brexit robbery [theguardian.com]
Exclusive: Meet the Arkansas Judge Who Faces Impeachment for Protesting Against the Death Penalty [democracynow.org]
Case Farms Took Advantage of Immigrant Workers, Then Used U.S. Immigration and Labor Law Against Them [propublica.org]
Voter Suppression Works [demos.org] » @IramiOF
The Destructive Party [monbiot.com] @GeorgeMonbiot
The Ambition-Marriage Trade-Off Too Many Single Women Face [hbr.org] » @RowenaMonde
Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns (2014) [washingtonpost.com] » @NewBlackMan
For Chinese Home Buyers, Seattle Is the New Vancouver [wsj.com]
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality [nytimes.com]
USAspending – How U.S. government money was spent in 2016 [beta.usaspending.gov]
If Europe is more expensive, why do Americans pay more for healthcare? [straightdope.com]
West African gold: geology and geopolitics converge [westafricandocumentary.com]
How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful [nytimes.com]
Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956 [promarket.org]
Infrastructure Priorities for Racial Equity: Lead Poisoning and Water Poverty [demos.org]
In Rwanda, "elections are not a contest for power. They are the ritual confirmation of the power in place." Bert Ingelaere in @nytimes
Recy Taylor Gets Apology From Alabama 67 Years Later For Most Horrible Crime They Ignored [blackthen.com]
Shell made a film about climate change in 1991 [thecorrespondent.com] » @NewBlackMan, @Nnedi
Early Life of Lewis Latimer: Son of Escaped African Slaves Becomes Electric Lighting Innovator [blackthen.com]
The Etiquette of the Victorian Ballroom: Twenty Tips for Single Gentlemen [mimimatthews.com] » @RowenaMonde
The Mongols built an empire with one technological breakthrough [arstechnica.com]
young bruh, when you see that dude from the east on a chariot turn into a woman from the west with a sword, this is the fall of matriarchy
All the Trees Will Die, and Then So Will You [wired.com]
E.coli at worst-ever levels in Lake Ontario: advocacy group [citynews.ca]
More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production [bloomberg.com] » @IramiOF
American energy use, in one diagram - Vox [vox.com] » @IramiOF
Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem [theatlantic.com] » @BreakingBrown, @RowenaMonde
Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm [wsj.com]
Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users [schneier.com] » @IramiOF, @digitalafrican
Researchers have answered a big question about the decline of the middle class - The Washington Post [washingtonpost.com]
Luddites have been getting a bad rap for 200 years but turns out they were right [qz.com] » @digitalafrican
Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says [science.slashdot.org] » @BreakingBrown
Malawi To Use The OpenTrial App For Citizens To Access The Justice System [iafrikan.com]
What is so ‘scientific’ about Sanskrit? [smritiweb.com] » @khemenutwilhite
The psychological effects of growing up with an extremely common name [qz.com] » @khemenutwilhite
The true meaning of the hipster beard, according to an evolutionary biologist [qz.com] » @TamTamsWorld
How Don Diva Became the Magazine for Prisoners and Those Who Follow Them - The New York Times [nytimes.com]
Jessica B. Harris shares what it was like to live among James Baldwin, Nina Simone, and Maya Angelou. [nymag.com]
Microsoft partners with Cirque Du Soleil for mixed reality content [mspoweruser.com] « @welbyaltidor, @cirque
Comixology Guided View comes to Kindle [sixcolors.com]
Timelapse Film Shows How the British Library Digitized the World’s Largest Atlas, the 6-Foot Tall “Klencke Atlas” [openculture.com]
A Complete Digitization of Eros Magazine: The Controversial 1960s Magazine on the Sexual Revolution [openculture.com]
Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in [theguardian.com] » @RowenaMonde
young bruh, the fall of matriarchy is the loss of true civilization, taking refuge in devolving witchcrafts
young bruh, this woman from the west takes refuge behind the sword, the Iron Age of patriarchal religion has risen [twitter.com]
The Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger [openculture.com]