The Associated Press
AP News: Left out of MeToo: New initiative focuses on Black survivors
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Harvard Business Review
Are Your Diversity Efforts Othering Underrepresented Groups?
5 min · · The way you talk about inclusion could end up excluding people. · Shared by 44, including Scott McLeod, Antonio Vieira Santos, davidabrock, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
WIRED
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
2 min · · We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves. · Shared by 389, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jane, Backchannel, Mathew Ingram, IronBrigade - Gaming/Vlogs, Thomas Pleil, Konrad Weber, Esther Schindler, Talia Stroud, Mark Little, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, luis antónio santos
The Daily Beast
A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci's Agency
7 min · · Bill Crews is a PR official at the National Institutes of Health. But he also has another job: an anonymous RedState editor who rails against the agency for which he works. · Shared by 83, including Christina Farr, Daniel Kraft, MD, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Julia Ioffe, Charles Arthur, Joshua Benton, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Virginia Hughes, Helen Branswell 🇺🇦, Marc Abrahams, Trey Tweets Into the Void, emily bell, Mathew Ingram, Caroline Criado Perez
The Correspondent
Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy
18+ min · · The US is on its way to becoming an authoritarian state. That requires a radically different kind of journalism that doesn’t just cover the news, but defends democracy. · Shared by 82, including Nico Lumma, Claudia Sommer, Marie-José Kolly, Carl Morris, Jochen Burkhard, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, luis antónio santos, Judith D. Schwartz, Rob Wijnberg
POLITICO
Opinion | The Media’s Sudden Crush on Kamala Harris
3 min · · Last fall she crashed and burned, and the pundits had a million reasons why. Now she’s just the energy the Biden ticket needs. What changed? · Shared by 36, including Margaret Sullivan, Brian Stelter, Christina Hoff Sommers
Aeon+Psyche
Modern policing was set up to protect the powerful from a ‘criminal underclass’
2 min · · Today’s police state is rooted in Bentham’s utilitarian ideas, and exists to protect capitalism more than safety or justice · Shared by 95, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Gregg Caruso, Matthias Lampe, Brad Brooks
Harvard Business Review
Working from Home While Black
7 min · · “Professionalism” is coded — even on Zoom. · Shared by 61, including Amy Cuddy, PhD, Stephanie A Kowalski, AdEspresso, Kate Nasser, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Katja Evertz
The Nation
The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership
7 min · · The current uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like. · Shared by 18, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, LoriBeth, Jason Stanley, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️
FiveThirtyEight
When Proof Is Not Enough
8 min · · Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change. · Shared by 185, including Nir Eyal, caroline sinders, Jer Thorp, Dominik Grolimund, David Wallace-Wells
CNN
Refinery29 is reeling from claims of racism and toxic work culture. Employees say it's even worse behind the scenes
20+ min · · Sixty current and former Refinery29 employees who spoke with CNN Business over the course of a lengthy investigation painted a picture of a toxic workplace culture. · Shared by 44, including Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Mathew Ingram
The Intercept
Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion
3 min · · The 2018 war game envisioned a “Zbellion” by a tech-savvy generation that no longer believed in the American dream. · Shared by 100, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Thomas Pleil, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Alex Barrera, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Katja Evertz, Mark Kaigwa, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The Guardian
How the free press worldwide is under threat
16+ min · · The long read: From Mexico to Malta, attacks on journalists and publishers have proved deadly to individuals and chilling to broader freedoms. And now Covid-19 is being used as an excuse to silence… · Shared by 169, including Nieman Reports, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jane, luis antónio santos
The New Yorker
Concerts in the Void
5 min · · The sound is often tinny, the stage patter awkward, but live-streamed events have generated moments of startling power. · Shared by 28, including Dr Jim Walsh, Andrew Russeth
VICE
Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
1 min · · The government just got even more power to spy on your internet habits as millions remain quarantined at home. · Shared by 224, including Mo Ryan, Dr. Alec Couros, Thomas Power, Charles Hoskinson, Sebastien Meunier, Meltem Demirors, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, DHH, Taylor Pearson, Rob Tiffany, Ser Jeff Garzik, Matthew Green, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Erik Voorhees, Steve Faktor, Mic King, Nick Szabo, Paddy Johnson, Marko Saric, Joel Califa
zfnd.org
Let's Develop Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing
3 min · · A call-to-action to develop a decentralized, privacy-preserving contact tracing protocol for COVID-19 response. · Shared by 95, including zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, BrendanEich, Matthew Green, Neeraj K Agrawal, Thomas Power, Christopher Allen, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯