“The Social Justice Sector Has an Internal Racism Problem” and other tweeted links…

The Social Justice Sector Has an Internal Racism Problem https://sojo.net/articles/social-justice-sector-has-internal-racism-problem via @sojourners

Chief Gallagher shot children dead and murdered a teenager.

Navy SEALs Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/navy-seals-crimes-of-war.html

Zambian farmers win ground-breaking legal victory in a UK court over multinational #Vedanta.

https://africasacountry.com/2019/06/victory-over-vedanta

#architectural Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler Furniture Heist Revisited at USC http://archdg.co/4O5ERaY https://twitter.com/ArchDigest/status/1093524851200012289/photo/1

Man drove 65 miles to deliberately run down cyclist as he rode to work | https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/man-drove-65-miles-deliberately-run-cyclist-rode-work-421793#Os2ZFpByrQJiovtM.99 https://twitter.com/cyclingweekly/status/1123467339759017987/photo/1

Bolsonaro was elected in large part thanks to Evangelical megachurches that preach a fundamentalist and deeply anti-Indigenous gospel which gives humans free reign to destroy the planet as they see fit. The death of the Amazon is in part an act of Christian extremism.

This @verge article about the two Boeing 737 crashes this year, and about the human error involved (not on part of the pilots, but on Boeing and FAA regulators), is a fascinating read: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/2/18518176/boeing-737-max-crash-problems-human-error-mcas-faa

Flamengo football club: Ten die in Rio de Janeiro fire - BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_ajai09cY&feature=youtu.be

Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt #archaeology #archaeologist #history https://mymodernmet.com/khuwy-egyptian-tomb-saqqara/

#TuesdayTruth About #BlackAfricanHistory The Dabous Giraffes Of Niger Is The Worlds Oldest & Largest Piece Of Rock Art Drawn By Africans Nomads Between The Years 9,000 & 5,000Bc https://twitter.com/Fresh_Flames1/status/1148639382582247424/photo/1

The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian | Smithsonian http://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2019/04/24/treaty-new-echota/

When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933)

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1064418 https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1124336950016495618/photo/1

Today I learned that Rosa Parks practiced yoga and I’m not sure any other archive discovery has made me feel so validated. Here is a pic of her on her mat in 1973 via the Library of Congress. The smile is everything. https://twitter.com/sjjphd/status/1143562129888489472/photo/1

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

Sandman origins in Mesopotamia? @neilhimself

"Along with songs, the text suggests parents rub dust from a significant street, doorway, or even a grave—perhaps representing an ominous, ultimate silence—on a wailing baby."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/crying-baby-in-mesopotamia

Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress | Smithsonian Magazine http://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2019/02/08/only-surviving-arabic-slave-narrative-written-in-the-united-states-digitized-by-library-of-congress-smithsonian-magazine/ https://twitter.com/KOLUMN_Magazine/status/1093841644359741441/photo/1

The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark As We Thought https://lithub.com/the-dark-ages-werent-as-dark-as-we-thought/ via @lithub https://twitter.com/jruthkelly/status/1121251970621300736/photo/1

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, an associate professor of history at UC Berkeley combed through data from the 1850 and 1860 census and revealed that white women made up around 40% of the owners of enslaved Africans in America. https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/05/25/research-by-black-female-professor-reveals-startling-truth-that-white-women-made-up-40-of-slaveowners/

One of the reasons the academy suppresses the voices of scholars of color is to mask the fact that white scholarship has always been a step behind. It isn’t always that the academy doesn’t see the value in our work, but they need that work presented by a particular body.

Sorely missed Victorian slang:

8. Gigglemug (always smiling)

9. Bitch the pot (pour the tea)

10. Got the morbs (temporary sadness)

11. Tight as a boiled owl (drunk)

12. Poked up (embarrassed)

13. Sauce-box (the mouth)

14. Cupid’s kettle drums (breasts)

15. Not up to dick (unwell)

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921 (2000) | Black Wall Street | Definitive Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6_BDDvQ2Y&feature=youtu.be via @reelblack

Data on U.S. broadband usage, reflecting increasing cord cutting: Charter's cable internet customers who don't subscribe to the TV service use an average of >400 GB monthly. Charter, the #2 cable operator, has 24 M residential Internet customers. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/charter-data-use-rising-rapidly-as-cord-cutters-average-400gb-a-month/ https://twitter.com/MWJGary/status/1124008155426504711/photo/1

By far one of humanity's most ambitious efforts. A science megaproject, ITER is currently the largest planned tokomak #fusion reactor, (a magnetic donut that squeezes hydrogen into helium, hoping to release more energy than used), coming online in 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0k42jvit8I&feature=youtu.be

Magnetic north just changed. Here's what that means. “We don't have any idea. What we know is what it's doing now is different, and that's always exciting scientifically”- National Geographic https://apple.news/A2WmR-sS6R2KS6QGwbC5Etg

"If the patterns observed during the Holocene hold for current anthropogenically forced warming, the weaker latitudinal temperature gradient will lead to considerable reductions in mid-latitude water resources.” #ClimateChange https://arstechnica.com:443/p3/#p3

"But it would be a mistake to dismiss #Biosphere2 out of hand. For two years, eight people grew papayas, beets, bananas, rice and a host of other crops in there." RT @nytimes The Lost #History of One of the World’s Strangest #Science Experiments https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html

A recent typhus outbreak in downtown Los Angeles -- caused by contaminated fleas -- may force the removal of all carpets at City Hall. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/?p=1003643 https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1093379927053950977/photo/1

A few things we don’t get told about motherhood. Pregnancy related cellulite is a thing. Sleep deprivation can cause you to hallucinate. Breasts full of milk actually hurt. The sight of the person who got you pregnant may cause you nausea or murderous impulses.

You’re welcome.

Have you had a DNA test? What was your impression?

https://internethealthreport.org/2019/23-reasons-not-to-reveal-your-dna/

"Big pharma wants your DNA. 23andMe revealed a $300 million USD deal with... https://internethealthreport.org/2019/23-reasons-not-to-reveal-your-dna/

Big Pharma companies often say that drugs “need” to be expensive to fund research. What they don’t tell you is that they use publicly-funded research for expensive, privatized drugs.

This week on Oversight, @RoKhanna and I exposed how this scheme works: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1091416644805709825/video/1

EVERY TIME YOU swallow a mouthful of seawater while swimming at the beach, you’re downing about as many viruses as there are people in North America. https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-discover-nearly-200000-kinds-of-ocean-viruses-20190425/

As a beekeeper, I chuckle at the whole “birds and the bees” adage for sex talk. Because the queen mates w 10 drones in the first 2 weeks of her life. Their dicks fall off and plug her body. The dickless drones fall to their death. The queen stores the sperm for use later. Heh.

Technology Games: Using Wittgenstein for Understanding and Evaluating Technology

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6209041/

🇵🇭 Measles outbreak in the Philippines kills 55 children since 2019 l Al... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGpSZwA8oew&feature=youtu.be

A lost interview (1995) with #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @JulieDash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent https://vimeo.com/163190768 #BornOnThisDay

Black Arts Movement writer and poet #HenryDumas wrote about Black people killed by cops. Then he was killed by a cop at a New York City subway station. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=433229181&utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Author Rivers Solomon recently spoke to @verge about their #BetterWorlds story "St. Juju" — read their interview with @AndrewLiptak: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/28/18196370/rivers-solomon-interview-sci-fi-colonialism-fungus-better-worlds

Feb 16 1-4pm William Pajaud documentary free screening @lacountylibrary Bilbrew in Compton. Tour of the library's art collection. Q&A w/ my babbling filmmaker persona. #pajaud #lacountypubliclibrary #blackart #blackhistorymonth #africanamericanart https://twitter.com/megafunkmega/status/1091909646993031168/photo/1

#FemaleFilmmakerFriday Czech animator Hermína Týrlová directed over 60 short films in her career. Decades before 'Antz' & 'A Bug's Life' came her film --- 'Ferda Mravenec / Ferdinand the Ant' (1943) dir. Hermína Týrlová. https://twitter.com/FolkloreFilmFes/status/1129271841904889856/photo/1

The Ten Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers

#filmmaking #screenwriting #amwriting http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/the-ten-greatest-films-of-all-time-according-to-358-filmmakers.html

Watch Six New Short Alien Films - http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/watch-six-new-short-alien-films.html https://twitter.com/sfsignal/status/1124093785754021890/photo/1

Dominic Fike, the Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music http://dlvr.it/R2BHg3 https://twitter.com/lorenapike/status/1113905847522828288/photo/1

I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the Celestial Choir. He will always be cherished, loved and remembered for his genius, his love of family and his humanity. I am blessed to have been so close. We will forever speak his name.❤️ https://twitter.com/msdebbieallen/status/1090329599244783616/photo/1

Why You Need a Network of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/smarter-living/why-you-need-a-network-of-low-stakes-casual-friendships.html

Son: Daddy?

Me: Yes?

Son: What if I’m still in Mommy’s stomach and I’m just dreaming all of this?

I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/making-money-out-of-every-hobby/ https://twitter.com/waxzce/status/1121491067604492289/photo/1

@beautifuldeson1 One of the greatest misjudgments made in my life was assuming that education without assimilation was “easy” for “my” people🙊👿 ...I approached higher education with a view that @MrChuckD would call “intellectual Vietnam”🛂 and I was biased for a technical education🔬

@KinteSpace @beautifuldeson1 @MrChuckD Same. I agree.