https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/sunday/it-was-never-about-busing.html
No surprises here and no fun to read, but that doesn’t it any less true or important.
It Was Never About Busing – The New York Times
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Cardinal Gin Barrel Rested – Master of Malt
https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/southern-artisan-spirits/cardinal-gin-barrel-rested-gin/
The first sipping gin I ever discovered. Maybe goes in a Negroni, but really: just sip it neat.
21 Most Memorable Movie Moments: Heather’s Confessional from The Blair Witch Project (1999) << Rotten Tomatoes – Movie and TV News
The intersection of acting, improv and role-playing.
«Twenty years after its release, The Blair Witch Project writer-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez reveal how they worked with Heather Donahue to make movie history… in extreme close-up.»
Thread by @carolecadwalla: “Weird & extraordinary to see this. Facebook fined $5bn. As direct result of our reporting. FTC’s biggest fine ever. Yet such is scale &a […]”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1149943366848843777.html
Facebook and social media in general is off the rails. Fiction and hearsay at the speed of light. Not to mention the coordination of genocide: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/facebook_myanmar_report/.
Thread by @Botanygeek: “As a botanist, let me be clear… There is zero truth to this claim. In fact, given the relatively tiny amount of time humans have existed t […]” #TrustScienceNotScaremongers
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1149954823699259392.html
A little biophysics….
Thread by @Pinboard: “Microsoft is funding DACA opponents in Congress while warning employees that discussing the donations with one other may constitute ‘harassm […]”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1148731044935286784.html
The morality of large corporations (of course, this is all Twitter-say):
«Why is Microsoft paying off politicians who want its own employees deported, while simultaneously making a big show of defending DACA in court? It appears to come down to a massive, $10B Pentagon contract for the “war cloud”, for which Microsoft and Amazon are finalists.»
Pew report: Most veterans say the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were not worth fighting – Veterans – Stripes
A black principal, four white teens and the ‘senior prank’ that became a hate crime
https://twitter.com/mjcontrera/status/1148629047229976579?s=20
Interesting story. Kids will probably smarten up and start turning off their cell phones when up to this sort of thing, but the story will probably always be similar. Do racist stuff and then be surprised when nobody believes their “I’m not a racist” line.
