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June 23, 2020
— “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 #
— get a bunch of great indie games with 100% of proceeds split between Black Lives Matter and the National Bail Fund Network via @PlayStarCrossed #
June 1, 2020
— “we are reporting while dealing with our own life-long post-traumatic stress from repeatedly bearing witness to our dehumanization and murder” via Nick Heer #
— in the process, they’ll try to dismantle controlled digital lending #
— account dedicated to retweeting donation match offers #
— for the first time, employees are starting to go public on social media and to the press #
— “Escalating force by police leads to more violence, not less.” #
— “99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime” #
May 31, 2020
— like if Are.na and a modular synth had a baby via kickscondor.com #
— a privacy-aware tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests #
— “the most comprehensive live picture of police brutality ever” #
May 28, 2020
— while the president had a tantrum and attacked a Twitter employee, the U.S. passed 100,000 deaths to COVID-19 #
May 27, 2020
— digital self-portraits animated, mildly NSFW #
— New Zealand is a great example of what leadership looks like #
— blisteringly hard, congrats if you can make it past the third level #
— they reportedly ignored it because changes would disproportionately affect conservatives and might hurt engagement #
May 25, 2020
— starting tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET, a streaming showcase of upcoming adorable indie games #
— fascinating story about a writer claiming ownership over tropes in erotic fandom #
— turn typing into solo piano jazz; click the note for other songs, including Bill Evans’ Blue in Green via @karlringman #
May 22, 2020
— Nintendo patched the dupe glitch, but an interesting glimpse into how time determines value in a virtual economy #
— Lisa Hanawalt’s delightful animated series gets ten new episodes #
