Apple reverses ban on Struck, a clever astrology dating app for iOS — starting in March, Apple declared "fortune-telling" and "dating" were oversaturated, spammy categories #

Animal Talking debuts second season with Sting — Gary Whitta's late-night talk show recorded in Animal Crossing is getting some big names #

How the Virus Won — impressive NYT data visualization of the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S. #

The Dixie Chicks rename, dropping the “Dixie” — learning from Lady Antebellum's mistake, the Chicks cleared the new name with an existing band first #

Walt Disney World and Disneyland retheming Splash Mountain to “Princess and the Frog” — the 1989 ride was based on the 1946 film Song of the South, known for its racist stereotypes and glorified plantation setting #

Wesley Lowery on the reckoning over objectivity in newsrooms led by Black journalists — the illusion of fairness vs. telling hard truths (via) #

No-coding SMS bots with Google Sheets and Twilio — useful hack by the always-brilliant Nicole He (via) #

NASA names headquarters after “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson — Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer, portrayed by Janelle Monáe in the film adaptation of the book #

Straight 2 Spam — add invisible text to deliberate get caught in spam filters (via) #

Finger On The App — 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 #

McSweeney’s catalog of Trump’s worst cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes — a categorized collection of this president's lowlights, 759 and counting #

Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm — lazy cops using flawed facial recognition targeted a Black man in Michigan for a crime he didn't commit #

Brooklyn Nine-Nine rewriting new season from scratch — nobody's really in the mood for a wacky show about the NYPD right now #

Immersive Light Field Video — don't miss the full-motion video demos at the bottom of the page #

ProPublica editor tries to investigate an NYPD car that hit a Black teen on Halloween — "Instead, the episode crystallized all of the ways in which the NYPD is shielded from accountability." #

Hot Pod on the public dispute over Another Round’s archives — Heben and Tracy have tried to get the show back from Buzzfeed for years, and it may finally happen #

Polygon’s investigation into Cards Against Humanity and cofounder Max Temkin — 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 #

Black Artists for Freedom — some of the most powerful voices in art and media call on cultural institutions to tangibly act to eliminate racist culture #

Algonuts — GAN-hallucinated comics trained on 18,000 Peanuts strips (via) #

The Return of the 90s Web — Kicks Condor chimed in with thoughts on modern personal directories #

MakeSpace — intriguing and creative new take on collaborative video, currently in private beta #

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" #