The forbidden mashup

How the social media company got on top of a trust and safety problem

Update on how this important tool for fighting Coronavirus is going; sort of OK, but not great.

Owner of the news publication doing secret backroom deals with the Trump Administration to get his wife a job

Detailed reading of queerness in World of Warcraft, but you have to look real hard for it. No major LGBT characters.

A new analysis with appealing video

Absolute failure of state responsibility at a major prison

Major new insider story about Trump's total lack of seriousness or competence when talking to world leaders on the phone

The system of health insurance is opaque, predatory, and 100% antithetical to good health

Microsoft bought GitHub, picked up NPM, then laid off all the Black engineers.

Tracking cases of Covid-19 is failing in the US because of a lack of staff and national coordination

Strong essay about the awful history of rape of African Americans through the centuries

More information from Fox News, of all places. Confirms Trump has known for months.

And Trump has known. For months.

An argument for empathy and building understanding with mask denialists. Gotta admit, it's a hard suggestion to swallow, but her analogy to condom-shaming is on point.

Satirical Thai column about current politics

Website collecting various forecast models for Covid deaths

Meticulous list of 759 awful things Trump has done so far

Fun project to make typographically matching logos for video games but in Arabic

Another city reports no evidence of an increase in Covid-19 cases after the BLM protests

No correlation found between protests and disease outbreak

Doesn't look like any significant linkage; if anything, social distancing increased during the protests

Detailed article about the hostile work environment from accused rapist Max Temkin

Google created a mess where phone manufacturers see no need to ship OS updates

Coursera course to become a contact tracer, available free

Milkshake cops never got sick, a lie made up by senior supervisors and police lobby groups

Details on a secret meeting and what seems to be a political understanding

Details on how a group of teenagers have become expert at manipulating social media metrics

Horror watching my country fail to manage even basic public health

Sequel to the perfect mobile video game, Desert Golf

Former senior engineer manager at Google starts Neeva, a search company without ads. Based on Bing

Employees of the massive philanthropic fund write an open letter trying to steer the organization in a more just direction

How a good measure to fight Covid-19 is badly applied

Nice collection of little logic puzzle games

New organization to help turn Internet content moderation into a safe, respected profession. Great folks founding it, could have a real influence for good.

A spreadsheet-like programming environment for laser cutters, etc

Interesting reading of a 1515 painting as a depiction of the sins of white people as they began to colonize other continents

Fraudulent organization gets donations meant for someone else entirely

Internal investigation finds NOAA's director compromised their scientific integrity while following Trump's inane lead during the whole Sharpiegate hurricane thing

Update on the unusual tech funding company

Bizarre, disturbing case; federal charges against 6 eBay executives for sending death threats to a couple. Includes their Director of Safety and Security.

Comparison of post-war experiences in the American South and Germany.

Facebook white washes Australian history by blocking sharing of photos of Aboriginal men in chains

BLM horseback ride / march

Kyle takes his database consistency testing tool to Postgres and comes away with one bug (now fixed) and one documentation problem. Not bad!

Roundup of how various online maps were made and responded to BLM protests

Excellent essay on the perpetuation of white supremacy in the United States

Choctaw woman also a pioneer in aviation. And flies gyrocopters, to which all I can say is "Respect".

The last flag of Confederacy, its surrender

Long history of voter suppression and incompetence meets Covid-19 with very poor result

Analysis of how much traffic Wikipedia has lost because of Google's aggressive display of copyrighted information inline rather than sending the user to a destination page

Good unicorn skeleton chaos art

Musk illegally reopened the plant and workers got sick

Bad cops argue that they slashed journalist's tires for strategic reasons. Fire and sue them. Also jail them for vandalism. What else could you do?

A Sign interpreter talks about signing words related to racial justice

Helen Rosner just barely on the metaphor

A condemnation of the Cards Against Humanity founder

Decent short bios of 50 folks working in film and TV for LGBTQ inclusion

This article is confusing because it mixes two major topics: risk from the police brutality protests vs. the general public health project just kind of giving up on pandemic containment

Embassies prevented from flying Pride flags in June

Truly stupid and outrageous behavior in Minneapolis

Unethical browser company does something new unethical

All of America is fed up

We are very lucky in the US to have a culture and history of political calm and neutrality in our military

Third world dictatorship tactic applied to American protestors

Vox's take on various things meant by "Defund the Police"

Call by BLM to radically rethink police's role in the United States

Former Trump defense secretary has finally had enough

Protests for BLM, George Floyd

His vote-by-mail registrations are super fishy

A scary but realistic assessment of the danger Trump refuses to honor a close election

Tweetstorm as FEC publication by an FEC commissioner

Sweden's epidemiologist admits their approach got more people killed than necessary. Also not clear it helped the economy.

Really creepy smug tweet

Monument to Lincoln surrounded by military

Absolutely miserable international flight

How a competent country is managing to keep Covid-19 under control

Tight 60 seconds of agitprop

Thoughtful essay from 50 years of study about how to handle protests

Excellent collection of works from the installation artist

Most awkward fucking thing

Which US states are set up to test and trace Covid-19 cases?

Calm, conservative essay on a path to social justice via voting in local elections

1985 music video contained some very early computer character animation

A very detailed history of the accelerationist movement that started on 4chan /k/ and graduated to Facebook

A roundup of some of the bad actions from cops during the protests

Detailed research on the life of the woman accusing Biden of sexual assault