“The Affluent Homeless” and other tweeted links…

The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, A Hired Desk And A Handful Of Clothes https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/715107132/the-affluent-homeless-a-sleeping-pod-a-hired-desk-and-a-handful-of-clothes?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Heartbreaking. '84 Olympic cycling hero — and my first bike heartthrob — Rebecca Twigg has spent the last four years living homeless on the streets of Seattle after losing her job, and failing to adjust after a lifetime of racing bikes. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/8881990/olympic-rebecca-twigg-homeless/

In Los Angeles, it takes 43 years to save up a 20% down payment by setting aside 5% a year on the city’s median income.

In San Francisco, it takes 40 years. In New York City, 36 years.

In 1975, it took just 9 years. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/why-millennials-cant-afford-buy-house/591532/ https://twitter.com/michael_hendrix/status/1139247585443627008/photo/1

Inc.: These Well-Intentioned Parental Behaviors Actually Result in Kids Who Are Less Successful, Researchers Say. https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/these-routine-parenting-behaviors-produce-kids-who-are-less-successful-researchers-say.html

The average South African secondary school graduate does not get a first job until the age of 30 https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/04/25/high-unemployment-is-a-symptom-of-south-africas-economic-malaise?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/highunemploymentisasymptomofsouthafricaseconomicmalaisetheeconomy

My uncle has an urban farm in the back of our church in Kernersville, NC . He raises livestock, is clearing land to expand the farm, collects 1200 gallons of rain water, has a food pantry which feeds over 2k people a month, and raises bees. 💛 https://twitter.com/eternallychanel/status/1164623530400595969/video/1

"The broader question, one essential to both academics and practitioners, is how a world saturated with behavioral interventions might no longer resemble the one in which those interventions were first studied." https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/

Did you know that England once kidnapped an Ethiopian prince, refused his pleas to be returned to his home, and, when he died at the age of 18, buried him at Windsor Castle, marking the grave with "When I was a stranger, ye took me in"? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/07/britain-kidnapped-ethiopian-prince (by @MaazaMengiste)

Hold on. #Norway has consistently been among the top 20 arms exporters in the world (it's been 17th the last two two years for which data is available; via the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), and it hands out a Nobel Peace Prize? https://twitter.com/africasacountry/status/1183413173329846272/photo/1

Frederick Douglass for all he had done would've never accomplished anything without his wife Anna Douglass. She helped secure his freedom. What did she get for her build-a-bear project. He brought his racist White mistresses in his home where they mocked Anna for being uneducated https://twitter.com/varsha_venkat_/status/1148217014089146368

Millions of photos from Ebony magazine's archives will be donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. @reetamac on what their acquisition means for scholarly research and public discourse: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/07/ebony-magazine-archives-sold-nmaahc-getty/595171/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Gotta love the rich irony of people who fondly recount stories of how their family’s last names were changed on Ellis Island after their relatives snuck onto a boat escaping some horror now taking fervent anti-immigrant stances & branding innocent human beings as “illegal.”

I had no clue that the leading journalist behind the Panama Papers, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed by car bomb soon after their release.

That makes how quickly people forgot about that scandal an even bigger tragedy. https://twitter.com/TheLoveBel0w/status/1140478574165729281/photo/1

The Story of John H. Merrick and the Largest Black Life Insurance Company in the U.S. https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2019/07/black-wall-street/ via @scalawagmag

America paid...

$1.6 B - Japanese

$32 M - Ottawas of MI

$31 M - Chippewas of WI

$12.3 M - Seminoles of FL

$105 M - Sioux of SD

$81 M - Klamaths of OR

$1 B/44 M Acres- Alaska Natives

$0 - African American Descendants of Slaves

Why are reparations “controversial?“

This is how decent white people who tell the truth about slavery on plantations are reviewed by white people. https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1159193443467481090/photo/1

Aswan’s Nubian Museum is the ideal place to review everything we’ve studied over the last 2 weeks. This model shows the Nile from Mediterranean to Sudan. #HUStudyAbroadKemet2019 saw almost everything depicted in this map, and more. We do the most extensive work, by far. https://twitter.com/AfricanaCarr/status/1161278565385736192/video/1

What people die from, What they Google, What the media covers..... https://twitter.com/markritson/status/1133794330513235968/photo/1

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grills former Exxon scientists on oil giant's climate change denial https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1187719206562910209/video/1

This turbine power plant is the future of hydropower. https://twitter.com/DigitalTrends/status/1145670893554634753/video/1

Boeing's 737 Max software was outsourced to $9-an-hour engineers https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=8ebe58f0-10d1-11ea-8520-5d76b06ae8cc&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAxOS0wNi0yOC9ib2Vpbmctcy03MzctbWF4LXNvZnR3YXJlLW91dHNvdXJjZWQtdG8tOS1hbi1ob3VyLWVuZ2luZWVycz91dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c29jaWFsZmxvdy1vcmdhbmljJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9dHdpdHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPXNvY2lhbCZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1idXNpbmVzcyZjbXBpZD1zb2NpYWxmbG93LXR3aXR0ZXItYnVzaW5lc3M=

This professor made waves when he said all the wealth created by U.S. stocks is from gains in a weirdly small group of firms.

Now he's back with an update showing most of the world's companies are duds https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=8ee7d9f0-10d1-11ea-9f25-d9fd79a8aedb&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAxOS0wNy0xNy9hLXN0b2NrLXBpY2tlci1zLWxhbWVudC1tb3N0LW9mLXRoZS13b3JsZC1zLWNvbXBhbmllcy1hcmUtZHVkcz9jbXBpZD1zb2NpYWxmbG93LXR3aXR0ZXItYnVzaW5lc3MmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNvY2lhbGZsb3ctb3JnYW5pYyZ1dG1fc291cmNlPXR3aXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1zb2NpYWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9YnVzaW5lc3M=

The "Names and Location of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet, 2019" (via The Decolonial Atlas) https://twitter.com/africasacountry/status/1161473602853715968/photo/1

Ethiopia attempts to plant 200 million trees https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/africa/Ethiopia-attempts-to-plant-200-million-trees/4552902-5214576-nbmis1/index.html via @The_EastAfrican

Supermarkets in Vietnam and Thailand are replacing plastic packaging with banana leaves 🍌♻ https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1135306753019695110/video/1

Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Japanese Chalk http://www.openculture.com/?p=1064567 https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1126137428475965441/photo/1 by openculture

Series Exhumes Out-of-Print Books by Black Authors https://longreads.com/2018/06/13/series-exhumes-out-of-print-books-by-black-authors/ via @longreads

Oh Ras... https://twitter.com/Chimurenga_SA/status/1155973259550048262/photo/1

By 2021 we'll have:

Disney+

Hulu

Netflix

NBC Streaming Service

HBO Go/Now

Amazon Prime Video

If you subscribe to all of them you'll be paying ~$60+/month.

Congrats, we've invented cable. https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1143639903370129410

Seeking the Essence of the Novel: A Short History of Meiji Literature https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/b09004/seeking-the-essence-of-the-novel-a-short-history-of-meiji-literature.html#.XT6N9CBpdK0.twitter

SWEET LORRAINE—NEW PLAY ABOUT FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN LORRAINE HANSBERRY AND JAMES BALDWIN http://www.blackstarnews.com/entertainment/theater/sweet-lorraine%E2%80%94new-play-about-friendship-between-lorraine

Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/bread-additives-chemicals-us-toxic-america?CMP=share_btn_tw

5/ When you eat a $BYND burger, you’re effectively consuming a pea protein and canola oil smoothie.

Deconstructed, nobody thinks this is good for you. Put it in patty form, and people will apparently consider it healthy. Nuts.

When I see people hating on avocados, I think about how they are anachronistic fruits: they evolved to be eaten whole by giant ground sloths, which would poop out (and thus disperse) the seed. But like a lot of megafauna, the sloth went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene.

He's only a boyfriend if he's from the Boyfriend region of France; otherwise, he's just sparkling disappointment.

Do white people know that the dogs in Flint don’t have clean water either? Have we tried that approach?

do I have to write a Medium post explaining why I'm leaving San Francisco or am I allowed to just leave?

in sf either you can get married to a high powered sociopath who’ll @ you as his “better half” in his twitter bio and run weekly marital 1-on-1s or you can date a low powered sociopath who looks up from his 3x monitor setup once a day and thinks keto will finally make him likable

No one told me that being a parent is mostly saying "and what do we say" after miniature humans ask you for things until they're big enough to steal your clothes

My 14-year-old son just started high school, and he does not have his own smartphone. When I tell people this, I get the same face I imagine I would if I said that I hadn’t fed him for several days https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/09/i-wont-buy-my-teenagers-smartphones/597805/

Men are not indoctrinated into “sacrifice” like women. Women are always taught to over extend ourselves, I’m tired

I find this really disturbing and malignant. I love, honour and respect black America to the max and would lay down my life to protect each and every one of you. B’s you need to check your boy before he too completely isolates you from the rest of the Diaspora. You belong to us. https://twitter.com/BlacknessIn/status/1162044327289335809/video/1

I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but using “Black” slang to try to relate to me is a losing bet and super offensive. Also had this one dude (i hope he reads this) say that he learned how to relate to Black folks by watching Yo MTV Raps. https://twitter.com/loudblkgrl/status/1164570777519157248

I just want y'all to know that I've turned down 3 final round interviews after doing my research and learning I'd be the first black employee.

All of these companies were over 50 employees.

I've done it before and it is not worth it unless you know the team already.