The Washington Post
Black teens were fundraising for their football team. Then a white woman held them at gunpoint, police say.
· The woman forced them to lie on the ground and threatened to shoot if they moved, the boys told police. · Shared by 18, including Deborah Blum, Noah Toly, Scott McLeod
The Washington Post
Opinion | The New York Times omits mention of race from its history of the tea party
· Newspaper amplifies its original look back at the anti-Obama movement to add important context. · Shared by 12, including Deborah Blum
VentureBeat
YouTube disables 210 channels tied to Hong Kong disinformation campaigns
1 min · · Google's YouTube is the latest digital platform to confirm it has been manipulated to spread disinformation about the Hong Kong protests. · Shared by 17, including Chris O'Brien, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Esquire
Dave Karpf On Calling Bret Stephens a 'Bedbug' and Free Speech
4 min · · This, after embarrassing himself on Twitter and on national television. · Shared by 58, including Yvette d’Entremont (@thescibabe.bsky.social), Bjorn Larsen, trudy, Jonathan Eisen, Steve Silberman, Deborah Blum, Chris O'Brien, Jeff Atwood
Mail & Guardian
State’s failures impede land reform
5 min · · Scathing Constitutional Court judgment bemoans land reform department’s inability to get job done in time
Forbes
Huawei Issues Shock Warning: 'Live Or Die Moment' As U.S. Expands Blacklist
3 min · · Huawei warns employees of drastic changes as the impact of the latest U.S. blacklist announcement hits home. · Shared by 4, including Thomas Power
Matt Stoller
How Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve
12+ min · · Hi, Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to offer some speculative thoughts on the relationship… · Shared by 13, including Taylor Pearson, Tim O'Reilly
chiefmomofficer.org
The Worst Question You Get Asked When Applying For A Job (And What To Do Instead Of Answering) ~ Chief…
6 min · · Today I'm ranting about my least favorite question that gets asked too often during the job application process. I'll talk about why the question just isn't one an applicant can answer - and share…
New York Magazine
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
20+ min · · That’s what’s scariest about Donald Trump. · Shared by 220, including Mark Kaigwa, Klaus Eck, 🎆 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 🌄, Maureen, Andrew Sullivan, Graham Marshall, Stowe Boyd, Brad Brooks, Nir Eyal, Martina Bürge, Thomas Euler, Barnaby Skinner, aubrey blanche-sarellano (she/her)
The Atlantic
Why Technology Favors Tyranny
Summary · 20+ min · · In the long history of humankind, the emergence of democratic governments may just be a “blip,” writes best-selling Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari in an excerpt from his latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. New information technology might tip the balance back in favor of more autocratic regimes. getAbstract recommends Harari’s disturbing and thought-provoking thesis to anyone who favors democracy over autocracy. · Shared by 424, including Esther Schindler, Loubna Rais, ThomNagy, Philip Junker, Yuval Noah Harari, Gabriele, Mark Kaigwa, Christopher Allen, Ines Bieler, adrianoesch, Klaus Eck, Liv 😷, getAbstract, Kaspar Etter, Lelio Simi, Howard Getson, Joan Lockwood, Jane, martha lane fox, Claudia Sommer
WIRED
A 1970s Essay Predicted Silicon Valley's High-Minded Tyranny
6 min · · Published in Ms. magazine, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" observes that organizations built to avoid hierarchy develop leaders with pernicious power. · Shared by 29, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Anthony Hamelle, Backchannel, Charles Baldwin
Journal
The Tyranny of the S Curve
6 min · · It’s no secret that growing a successful B2C business is hard. Failure rates are high and the companies that do survive can never rest on… · Shared by 16, including andrew chen, Gianluca Diegoli
The Atlantic
The Tyranny of Simple Explanations
20+ min · · The history of science has been distorted by a longstanding conviction that correct theories about nature are always the most elegant ones. · Shared by 63, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Nir Eyal, John Hagel
Harvard Business Review
Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap Means Focusing on What Employees Think, Not What They Do
7 min · · Escape the tyranny of the tangible. · Shared by 19, including Clemens M. Schuster
Forbes
We Are Not A Dashboard: Contesting The Tyranny Of Metrics, Measurement, And Managerialism
11+ min · · Data sciences and technology could, and must, play a vital role. But they haven’t earned the right to be considered an end in themselves. They represent potentially valuable tools, ideally in the… · Shared by 17, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧