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June 30, 2020
— don’t miss the John Hughes tribute at the end #
— like Another Round, the show’s hosts/creators are now trying to get the rights to their work by going public #
June 29, 2020
— also: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more, while Twitch temporarily banned Trump #
June 25, 2020
— companies are pulling ads over their failure to moderate misinformation and hateful content #
— more than just a platform, Facebook’s algorithms actively amplify and recruit through recommendations #
— Belgian artist Barbara Iweins photographed and categorized all 10,352 objects in her house via It's Nice That #
— jumping on the NoCode bandwagon, along with tools like Webflow, Bubble, Zapier, and Airtable #
— starting in March, Apple declared “fortune-telling” and “dating” were oversaturated, spammy categories #
— Gary Whitta’s late-night talk show recorded in Animal Crossing is getting some big names #
— impressive NYT data visualization of the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S. #
— learning from Lady Antebellum’s mistake, the Chicks cleared the new name with an existing band first #
— the 1989 ride was based on the 1946 film Song of the South, known for its racist stereotypes and glorified plantation setting #
June 24, 2020
— the illusion of fairness vs. telling hard truths via Nick Heer #
— useful hack by the always-brilliant Nicole He via @nicolehe #
— Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer, portrayed by Janelle Monáe in the film adaptation of the book #
— add invisible text to deliberate get caught in spam filters via us18.campaign-archive.com #
— MSCHF and MrBeast’s real-time contest to see who can keep their finger on their phone the longest with a prize up to $25k #
— a categorized collection of this president’s lowlights, 759 and counting #
— lazy cops using flawed facial recognition targeted a Black man in Michigan for a crime he didn’t commit #
June 23, 2020
— nobody’s really in the mood for a wacky show about the NYPD right now #
— don’t miss the full-motion video demos at the bottom of the page #
— “Instead, the episode crystallized all of the ways in which the NYPD is shielded from accountability.” #
— Heben and Tracy have tried to get the show back from Buzzfeed for years, and it may finally happen #
— the reporter spoke to 21 former employees and contractors, along with many others with ties to the company and Max, who stepped down after these allegations #
June 19, 2020
— some of the most powerful voices in art and media call on cultural institutions to tangibly act to eliminate racist culture #
— GAN-hallucinated comics trained on 18,000 Peanuts strips via Cory Doctorow #
— Kicks Condor chimed in with thoughts on modern personal directories #
— intriguing and creative new take on collaborative video, currently in private beta #
— and allocating $30k annually to fund the fight for racial justice #
— Fabiola Cineas tells the roots of the holiday, unknown to many Americans until this year via Kottke #
— Verge illustrator Alex Castro shares “a collection of art that’s kept me sane” via @MatthewACherry #
— big NYT feature covering Juneteenth celebrations amid pandemic and protests, reparations as an election issue, and much more #
June 12, 2020
— Adrian Brandon’s portrait series of Black people killed by police, colored in one minute for each year of life #
June 11, 2020
— accessible and useful collection #
— free iOS app to anonymize, block, or blur auto-detected faces and bodies from video footage real-time #
— the results are startlingly good, I joined the beta waitlist #
June 9, 2020
— the longest-running U.S. reality show, it acted as a PR effort to reform the reputation of abusive police departments #
— from Brian Feldman’s excellent internet culture-centric newsletter #
— Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated documentary about racist policing and mass incarceration is streaming for free via Kottke #
— an anonymous confessional purportedly from a former California police officer #
— “the quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police alone” #
— the closer an apple is to rot, the more rot it spreads #
— the history of policing and white supremacy, the roadblocks to fixing it, and ways to move forward #
June 6, 2020
— astounding collection of over 740 games for a minimum $5 donation, raising over $1M in 24 hours #
June 5, 2020
— over 300 recent examples of conflict escalation and unchecked brutality via Kottke #
— simple way to email government officials to urge them to defund and reallocate police budgets #
June 4, 2020
— a study of hundreds of political protests found that “no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5% of its population” via lauraolin.com #
June 3, 2020
— one video was viewed 49 million times from a single tweet #
— update: useful thread about why these proposed policies can be toothless, and the underlying data may be flawed #
