Bandcamp donating all proceeds today to NAACP Legal Defense Fund — and allocating $30k annually to fund the fight for racial justice #

The Internet Archive’s historical anti-slavery collections — thousands of primary sources from Boston Public Library, the James Bimey Collection, Oberlin, and more (via) #

Juneteenth, explained — Fabiola Cineas tells the roots of the holiday, unknown to many Americans until this year (via) #

The healing power of Black art — Verge illustrator Alex Castro shares "a collection of art that’s kept me sane" (via) #

How We Juneteenth — big NYT feature covering Juneteenth celebrations amid pandemic and protests, reparations as an election issue, and much more #

Stolen — Adrian Brandon's portrait series of Black people killed by police, colored in one minute for each year of life #

Jason Kottke’s links to resources on police abolition and defunding — accessible and useful collection #

Anonymous Camera — free iOS app to anonymize, block, or blur auto-detected faces and bodies from video footage real-time #

Janelle Shane plays with OpenAI’s upcoming API — the results are startlingly good, I joined the beta waitlist #

Paramount cancels “Cops” in wake of protests — the longest-running U.S. reality show, it acted as a PR effort to reform the reputation of abusive police departments #

the k-pop stans pick a side — from Brian Feldman's excellent internet culture-centric newsletter #

13th — Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated documentary about racist policing and mass incarceration is streaming for free (via) #

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop — an anonymous confessional purportedly from a former California police officer #

How Do We Change America? — "the quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police alone" #

How Apples Go Bad — the closer an apple is to rot, the more rot it spreads #

Last Week Tonight on Police — the history of policing and white supremacy, the roadblocks to fixing it, and ways to move forward #

Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality — astounding collection of over 740 games for a minimum $5 donation, raising over $1M in 24 hours #

Greg Doucette’s mega-thread of police violence videos from recent protests — over 300 recent examples of conflict escalation and unchecked brutality (via) #

Defund12.org — simple way to email government officials to urge them to defund and reallocate police budgets #

The 3.5% Rule — a study of hundreds of political protests found that "no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5% of its population" (via) #

Police violence supercuts go viral — one video was viewed 49 million times from a single tweet #

8 Can’t Wait — update: useful thread about why these proposed policies can be toothless, and the underlying data may be flawed #

Black Lives Matter Support Bundle — get a bunch of great indie games with 100% of proceeds split between Black Lives Matter and the National Bail Fund Network (via) #

Black Journalists and Covering the Storm That Never Passes — "we are reporting while dealing with our own life-long post-traumatic stress from repeatedly bearing witness to our dehumanization and murder" (via) #

Publishers sue Internet Archive over Open Library — in the process, they'll try to dismantle controlled digital lending #

Donation Match Party — account dedicated to retweeting donation match offers #

Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest inaction on Trump posts — for the first time, employees are starting to go public on social media and to the press #

Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong — "Escalating force by police leads to more violence, not less." #

Mapping Police Violence — "99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime" #

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Kinopio — like if Are.na and a modular synth had a baby (via) #

Image Scrubber — a privacy-aware tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests #

Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US — "the most comprehensive live picture of police brutality ever" #

The EFF on Trump’s unenforceable and unconstitutional Section 230 executive order — while the president had a tantrum and attacked a Twitter employee, the U.S. passed 100,000 deaths to COVID-19 #

Selfies by Claudius Gentinetta — digital self-portraits animated, mildly NSFW #

How some countries brought their Covid-19 cases to nearly zero — New Zealand is a great example of what leadership looks like #

Ocarina of Time Sudoku — blisteringly hard, congrats if you can make it past the third level #

Facebook ignored own research showing algorithms divided users — they reportedly ignored it because changes would disproportionately affect conservatives and might hurt engagement  #

Wholesome Direct — starting tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET, a streaming showcase of upcoming adorable indie games #

A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question — fascinating story about a writer claiming ownership over tropes in erotic fandom #

Jazz Keys — turn typing into solo piano jazz; click the note for other songs, including Bill Evans' Blue in Green (via) #

Bertrand Fan on the Animal Crossing economy — Nintendo patched the dupe glitch, but an interesting glimpse into how time determines value in a virtual economy #

Adult Swim revives Tuca & Bertie after contentious Netflix cancellation — Lisa Hanawalt's delightful animated series gets ten new episodes #

NVIDIA recreated Pac-Man with AI — trained on 50,000 gameplay videos, it made a functional game with no underlying game engine #

John Krasinski’s Some Good News sold to ViacomCBS in massive bidding war — I was wondering why it went on hiatus after only eight episodes, and now we know #

Paul Ford is blogging again — at least until he bails on it in a month #

Holding meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2 — a great place to socialize until an accidental button press causes you to strangle your coworkers (via) #

MSCHF Magazine — handy tools to defraud Spotify, Uber, and pretty much any big corporation #

Community cast reunites for table read — with special guest, Pedro Pascal from The Mandalorian and Narcos #

ITP’s Spring 2020 Show — experimental 3D spatial audio/video art show in YORB 2.0, a project inspired by ITP's early '90s interactive public access TV show (via) #