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The Atlantic
Defund Facial Recognition
The Atlantic
15+ min · · I’m a second-generation Black activist, and I’m tired of being spied on by the police. · Shared by 64, including Mike Tamir, PhD, Bjorn Larsen, Christian Surchi
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The New Yorker
To the World, We’re Now America the Racist and Pitiful
The New Yorker
5 min · · The United States was once able to reinvent itself. But political, economic, and legal inequality may now be too deeply entrenched. · Shared by 56, including Ethan Zeigler, William Gibson, Christian Surchi, Felix M, Christopher Lauer™
03
Vox
The hidden trackers in your phone, explained
Vox
12+ min · · How covert code enables your phone’s apps to spy on you. · Shared by 223, including Liv 😷, blinch, Esther Schindler, Brian Ahier, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Pleil, Oliver Raduner, Privacy Matters, Kashmir Hill, Shubhankar Adhikari, Christian Surchi
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Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the Size of Amazon, the World’s Most Valuable Retailer
Visual Capitalist
11+ min · · 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. · Shared by 37, including Michael Carroll, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, George J Huba PhD, Wilko S. Wolters, Christian Surchi, Glen Gilmore #MWC23
05
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Prove Conjecture on Big Prime Number Gaps
Quanta Magazine
5 min · · 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
06
Il Tascabile
Come non disse Richard Feynman
Il Tascabile
14+ min · · Catalogo ragionato delle battute e delle citazioni memorabili erroneamente attribuite al celebre fisico Richard Feynman, premio Nobel. · Shared by 5, including Christian Surchi
07
The Economist
Live-streaming will change rock ’n’ roll for the better
The Economist
4 min · · How to raise live music from the dead · Shared by 18, including Christian Surchi, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
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Il Tascabile
Raccontare la nascita della schiavitù negli Stati Uniti
Il Tascabile
12+ min · · Tra elogi e critiche, il progetto 1619 del New York Times Magazine ha rimesso la questione afroamericana al centro della storia americana. · Shared by 4, including Christian Surchi
09
Electric Literature
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Read Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" Books
Electric Literature
6 min · · The fantasy series offers a pioneering Black hero—and a model for how white people can decenter themselves · Shared by 39, including rohit, Juan Cole, Christian Surchi, Jennifer Ouellette
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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 · · 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 · Shared by 50, including Christian Surchi, Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻♂️, Mathew Ingram