Thinking Outside the Box
Uncommon perspectives and solutions to common problems.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
communemag.com
Optimize What? • Commune
15+ min · · Silicon Valley is full of the stupidest geniuses you'll ever meet. The problem begins in the classrooms where computer science is taught. · Shared by 27, including Bjorn Larsen, Charles Baldwin
CNET
Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
3 min · · It's a key victory for tenants who didn't want smart locks and apps tracking their activities. · Shared by 25, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Mark Kaigwa, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Leonardo Sumulong
The Guardian
We froze the salaries of 20 executives
3 min · · Executive pay is skyrocketing in the US. But I froze the salaries of my top team to benefit my company’s other workers – and it worked · Shared by 21, including Matthias Kahr
Reuters
Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own
6 min · · In a radiation-proof room at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Emar Thoma... · Shared by 20, including Vikram Dutt, Charles Baldwin
WIRED
Do You Really Need Dark Mode?
5 min · · The latest trend in app design—with black and gray backgrounds that mimic nighttime—has negligible benefits. But dark mode just looks cool. · Shared by 19, including Chris Messina, Andreas Von Gunten, Charles Baldwin
Gizmodo
Palantir's Github Page Is the New Battleground in the Fight Against ICE
3 min · · Tech activists continue to organize and win across many of the industry’s biggest firms—and increasingly the online spaces tech workers gather are becoming battlegrounds in their own right. Take… · Shared by 18, including anildash.com, Charles Baldwin, Katja Evertz
Bloomberg CityLab
The Effects of Housing Restrictions in Pricey Cities Are Exaggerated
6 min · · According to two scholars, the idea that an insufficient supply of housing is a main cause of cities' economic problems is based on flawed premises. · Shared by 18, including Philanthropy News Digest
BBC News (World)
An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands
6 min · · A ground-breaking project in California could see 250,000 people freed from their criminal record this year. · Shared by 18, including Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Thomas Power, Mike Tamir, PhD, Christina
ZDNET
Online voting: Now Estonia teaches the world a lesson in electronic elections
· In this month's Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting. · Shared by 16, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Charles Baldwin, George M 🇪🇺
Scientific American
Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid
3 min · · A roadblock to sustainable energy solutions is coming unstuck · Shared by 15, including Charles Baldwin
TNW
'Consent condom' requires four hands to open package
2 min · · 94 percent of women who are raped experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. One in three will contemplate suicide. And while a condom isn’t going to stop rape, it’s a damn good place to… · Shared by 15, including TechTrends, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, TNW Top Stories, Charles Baldwin
Bloomberg CityLab
In Need of Housing, Barcelona Fines Investors For Long-Vacant Buildings
4 min · · The massive fines levied against the investment funds have been interpreted as a “declaration of war” from Mayor Ada Colau, who wants more affordable housing. · Shared by 14, including Charles Baldwin
Dezeen
Rael San Fratell slots pink seesaws into US-Mexico border wall
2 min · · Architectural studio Rael San Fratello has installed three pink seesaws in between the slatted US-Mexico border wall, so that children and adults on either side can play together. · Shared by 13, including Rick Powell, Charles Baldwin
Scientific American
Actually, We Should Not All Use They/Them Pronouns
4 min · · A response to a recent Scientific American essay · Shared by 13
The New Republic
How Instagram Ruined the Great Outdoors
8 min · · Social media influencers have helped turn public lands into tourist-infested swamps. And one cantankerous man is fighting back. · Shared by 13, including Charles Baldwin
nature
Facing up to injustice in genome science
12+ min · · Researchers from under-represented groups are making genomics more inclusive by working with communities that have been overlooked or abused. · Shared by 12, including Charles Baldwin