The Verge
Facebook will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests
3 min · · What about the memes? · Shared by 56, including Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, Mari Smith, Marsha Collier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Alyssa C, Matt Navarra
The Guardian
Biggest books of autumn 2020: what to read in a very busy year
17+ min · · From a secret diary, gossipy celebrity memoirs and a love letter to Jürgen Klopp, to novels by Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante and Nick Hornby - new releases to look out for · Shared by 123, including Alyssa C, Juan Cole, Lynne Murphy, Stephanie A Kowalski
The New Yorker
The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
3 min · · After two decades in a filing cabinet and three next to a parking lot in Baltimore, the author returns to New York. · Shared by 78, including Dr. Cheryl Arutt, Alyssa C, Neil Lee, Carl Zimmer
The New Yorker
How Charlie Parker Defined the Sound and Substance of Bebop Jazz
5 min · · Parker, whose centenary falls on Saturday, lent modernist jazz its definitive sound, tone, legend, influence, and curse. · Shared by 37, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jennifer Ouellette
MIT Technology Review
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
9 min · · The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment. · Shared by 1196, including Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Adam Singer, Dominik Grolimund, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Rodrigo Prior, Rand Fishkin, adrianoesch, Steven Sinofsky, Thomas Power, Dan Ariely, Liliane Ferrari ™, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Mathias Böhm, @augieray@mastodon.social, tjalve, Howard Getson, Antonio Vieira Santos, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Damien Van Achter, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
16+ min · · This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines. · Shared by 684, including Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Helen Yu, Tom Raftery, LARRY ELKAN, Michelle Tandler, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power, Vala Afshar, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Antonio Vieira Santos, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Michelle Garrett, George J Huba PhD, Matt Navarra, Mari Smith, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tamara Schenk, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️
The New York Times
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun
20+ min · · New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how. · Shared by 559, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Ines Bieler, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Eghosa Omoigui, luis antónio santos, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Anna Jane Joyner, Philanthropy News Digest, PNASNews, Thomas Pleil, Cameron Sinclair, Katja Evertz, Randy Deutsch, Mark Little, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Gabriele, Catherine De Vries, Kainaz Amaria, Matthew Conlen
Slate
Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
2 min · · From New York to Los Angeles, police officers escalated the national outrest. · Shared by 565, including Gerudo Feminist, Rutger Bregman, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Neuropsychology, David Wallace-Wells, Juan Cole, Aral Balkan, Noah Smith, Kate Manne, Hiroko Tabuchi, erik spiekermann, Naomi Klein, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Brian Lovin, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Mathew Ingram, Jason Stanley, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
The New York Times
John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
4 min · · Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. · Shared by 872, including Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Jeff Keni Pulver 🌻, Danny Sullivan, Vala Afshar, Julie Zhuo, Prof Michael E. Mann, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Daniel Pink, Brad Feld, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, joe mcnally, Judd Legum, Ida Bae Wells, Rand Fishkin, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Kara Swisher, Brian Stelter, Reshma Saujani, Bill McKibben, Dan Primack
WIRED
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
Summary · 2 min · · At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story. · Shared by 914, including Mathew Ingram, Chris Skinner, Mark Kaigwa, SwiftOnSecurity, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Zain Fathoni, Adrienne Fichter, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Michael Seemann, Simo Ahava, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Luca Hammer, Leo Polovets, Cope, Chris Isak, notsofast, CyberCodeTwins, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Backchannel
BuzzFeed News
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
Summary · 20+ min · · Some claim millennials are lazy and entitled – unable to do basic tasks that older adults have just gotten on with for years. Anne Helen Petersen, senior culture writer for Buzzfeed News, rejects those labels. Milllennials like herself, she argues, are merely trying their best to navigate trends like skyrocketing student loans and an underpaying, perk-free gig economy. Millennials will likely not be the only ones who feel that her insights and observations are almost painfully on the nose. · Shared by 1208, including Pamela J. Hobart, Mathew Ingram, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Kelsey Jones, hiten.eth, Chris Messina, Liliane Ferrari ™, Richard Gutjahr, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Anita Zielina, Brittany Berger, Austin Kleon, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Tiago Forte, Marie-José Kolly, Sonja Peteranderl (@glocalreporting@chaos.social), Guy Kawasaki, Dao Nguyen, Adam Singer
The Guardian
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
12+ min · · When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman · Shared by 1344, including Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Jeff Atwood, Austin Kleon, Matthew Herper, Chris Hadfield, Jay Rosen, Dan Snow, Caterina Fake, Marsha Collier, Rutger Bregman, Alfie Kohn, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Dr. Pete Meyers, Larry Ferlazzo, Matt Zoller Seitz, Steve Case, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, BrendanEich
CBC
How the arts might help us grapple with climate change
· Information alone hasn't closed the gap between what we know and what we do when it comes to climate action, so creators argue the arts have a "fundamental role" to play in exploring issues and engaging our imaginations. · Shared by 6, including Alyssa C
Towards Data Science
Every Machine Learning Algorithm Can Be Represented as a Neural Network
8 min · · The Algorithm of Algorithms · Shared by 241, including Nicolas Babin, Vinod Sharma, Andreas Staub, von Moerenburgh, Alyssa C, Christian Surchi, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Leonard Enoch, rohit, Jansnet, Ronald van Loon, Oliver Ewinger, Pip Morris
The Guardian
Banksy supports Black Lives Matter with latest artwork
1 min · · People of colour are being failed by the system, says graffiti artist in Instagram post · Shared by 41, including Dr Jim Walsh, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Artnome, Alyssa C