“10 shootings a day: Complex causes of Chicago’s spiking violence” and other Tweeted Links…

10 shootings a day: Complex causes of Chicago's spiking violence [fw.to]

Why Is White America Ignoring the Epidemic of “White-On-White Crime”? [countercurrentnews.com]

Who got rich off the student debt crisis [revealnews.org]

“When you’re broke, the only freedom you have is to make bad decisions.” [lifehacker.com]

Higher minimum wage goes into effect in Los Angeles area [abc7.com]

In New Jersey Student Loan Program,Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve [nytimes.com]

LADWP sues firm, claims taxpayer money was used on prostitutes, bachelor party [abc7.com]

Income inequality today may be higher today than in any other era [washingtonpost.com]

When you have so much money you can afford to look poor and must pay a premium to do so! [twitter.com]

CEOs are getting more political, but consumers aren't buying it [latimes.com]

Florida declares algae emergency [theverge.com]

Jamaica to install weed vending machines at airports [greenrushdaily.com]

Rapper Priced-Out of Silicon Valley Home [marketwatch.com]

China's Government Must Now Approve Every Mobile Game [kotaku.com]

Homeless in Seattle: “The Skid Road that had for generations provided affordable housing” [features.crosscut.com]

America's top earners are Asian men @tamtamsworld [washingtonpost.com]

Apartheid-Era Victims Suffer Defeat In U.S. Court [blackstarnews.com]

The Meaning Of The Fourth Of July In The Words Of Frederick Douglass [blackthen.com]

“LEGO, the world's largest toy maker, has been making increasingly more violent toys” @tamtamsworld [bigthink.com]

5 Things you didn’t know about Thurgood Marshall [blavity.com]

Ethiopian Bible is oldest and most complete on earth. / [orthochristian.com] [pravoslavie.ru]

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87 [haaretz.com]

Margaret Walker Alexander: Poet and Writer of the Black Literary Movement in Chicago [blackthen.com]

Ola Hudson: Accomplished Costume Designer to Well-Known Entertainers [blackthen.com]

This Wooden Clock Writes The Time [core77.com]

Akram Khan interview [youtube.com]

The Fight to Liberate the “Happy Birthday” Song, Told in a Short Documentary [openculture.com]

Free hi-res CC0 licensed images from India [stockified.com]

Taneka Stotts’ ‘Elements’ is a comic anthology by creators of color [blavity.com]

“Charles Dellschau,..had finally been discovered, nearly 50 years after his death in 1923.” [bit.ly] via @messynessychic

[freelance writers] Why you should aim for 100 rejections a year [lithub.com]

.@rinceya pick: In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

.@ReadEngDee calls it out as erotica (Eric Jerome Dickey) [youtube.com]

‘Hancock’ – What the Last Black Superhero Movie Could’ve Been (Released Today in History, Jul 2, 2008) [shadowandact.com]

The School for Magical Negroes. [twitter.com]

Dont wear distracting clothes at Facebook – especially if you are a female [telegraph.co.uk]

The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes @tamtamsworld [nytimes.com]

Google and five telecoms start using 60Tbps undersea cable [arstechnica.com]

Fish School Us on Wind Power: “Record-efficiency turbine farms are being inspired by sealife.” [nautil.us]

The Solar Roadway is getting a (tiny) test along Route 66 [theverge.com]

Multitasking Drains Your Brain's Energy Reserves, Researchers Say [tech.slashdot.org]

This Bike Helmet Signals, Navigates & Livestreams Your Commute [core77.com]

Apple Is Suing A Man That Teaches People To Repair Their MacBooks [yro.slashdot.org]

How I Sold My Company to Twitter, Went to Facebook, and Screwed My Co-Founders [backchannel.com]

Who Cares if Apples Ditches the Headphone Jack? Wireless Is the Future [wired.com]

Do-it-yourself sperm-counting centrifuge gets FDA approval @tamtamsworld [theverge.com]

Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification [arxiv.org]

Brian Eno: We've been living happily with AI for thousands of years [edge.org]

Savanna elephants in Africa are declining at a rate of about 8 percent each year [aje.io]

Native Eyewear Throttle Polarized Sunglasses [rei.com] @REI

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