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
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 📯
The Guardian
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
10 min · · People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to… · Shared by 87, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ines Bieler, Fern, Ste Davies, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mike Davidson, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
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
TIME
'Without Empathy, Nothing Works.' Chef José Andrés Wants to Feed the World Through the Pandemic
18+ min · · Andrés is focused on feeding Americans affected by the coronavirus pandemic · Shared by 78, including Elena Neira, Steve Case, Jennifer Hurst, W. David Stephenson, Thomas Power, Kate Nasser
The New York Times
Jeffrey Epstein, Surrounded by Scientific Luminaries, Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA
8 min · · Mr. Epstein, the accused sex trafficker, was fascinated by eugenics. He told scientists and others of his vision of using his New Mexico ranch to impregnate women. · Shared by 78, including Jonathan Eisen, Ahmad Ragab, Mathew Ingram, The Indian Express, Charles Baldwin, Bjorn Larsen, Claudia Sommer, ❤️ Umair, Carly, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Hugh Howey
New Scientist
Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain
1 min · · In a universe that unthinkingly follows the rules, human agency is an anomaly. Can physics ever make sense of our power to change the physical world at will? · Shared by 69, including Jonathan Kogan, Niklaus Gerber
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 New York Times
A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods
7 min · · It may sound extreme, but it’s normal in the Netherlands. · Shared by 59, including Paul Bloom, Florian Hanke 🍎, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Martina Grolimund
The New York Times
What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World
9 min · · It began online as an intricate, if baseless, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. Now it has surfaced in political campaigns, criminal cases and a college classroom. · Shared by 45, including Tristan Harris, Alfie Kohn, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Has Tinder lost its spark?
5 min · · Dating apps are a huge success – but people are looking elsewhere for the perfect match · Shared by 45, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Gerrit Eicker
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 🌻
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 New York Times
Google’s 4,000-Word Privacy Policy Is a Secret History of the Internet
· How a nascent search engine became a tech behemoth, one edit at a time. · Shared by 43, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mathew Ingram, Charles Baldwin, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
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