The Atlantic
Defund Facial Recognition
The Atlantic
~15 min read · 2020-07-05 · I’m a second-generation Black activist, and I’m tired of being spied on by the police.
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The New Yorker
To the World, We’re Now America the Racist and Pitiful
The New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-07-03 · The United States was once able to reinvent itself. But political, economic, and legal inequality may now be too deeply entrenched.
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Vox
The hidden trackers in your phone, explained
Vox
~12 min read · 2020-07-08 · How covert code enables your phone’s apps to spy on you.
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Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the Size of Amazon, the World’s Most Valuable Retailer
Visual Capitalist
~11 min read · 2020-07-02 · Amazon's valuation has grown by 2,830% over the last decade, and the tech giant is now worth more than the other 9 largest U.S. retailers, combined.
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Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Prove Conjecture on Big Prime Number Gaps
Quanta Magazine
5 min read · 2020-07-03 · Mathematicians have made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart prime numbers can stray.
Shared by 66, including Jennifer Ouellette, Anita Leirfall, Christian Surchi, rohit
Il Tascabile
Come non disse Richard Feynman
Il Tascabile
~14 min read · 2020-07-15 · Catalogo ragionato delle battute e delle citazioni memorabili erroneamente attribuite al celebre fisico Richard Feynman, premio Nobel.
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The Economist
Live-streaming will change rock ’n’ roll for the better
The Economist
4 min read · 2020-06-25 · How to raise live music from the dead
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Il Tascabile
Raccontare la nascita della schiavitù negli Stati Uniti
Il Tascabile
~12 min read · 2020-07-07 · Tra elogi e critiche, il progetto 1619 del New York Times Magazine ha rimesso la questione afroamericana al centro della storia americana.
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Electric Literature
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Read Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" Books
Electric Literature
6 min read · 2020-06-17 · The fantasy series offers a pioneering Black hero—and a model for how white people can decenter themselves
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kottke.org
See Intricate Details in Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a New Gigapixel Image
kottke.org
2 min read · 2020-06-30 · The Royal Academy of Arts and Google teamed up on a high-resolution scan of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper painte
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