Imani Barbarin is ready for uncomfortable but necessary conversations.
In a recent TikTok video, in which she broke down the ways white people treat solidarity with BIPOC as optional, Barbarin explained that if BIPOC don’t ask nicely, white people…
The downside of ditching masks: the return of colds, flu – The Boston Globe
Since the state’s mask mandate was lifted, face coverings have started to come off — and stay off. But according to infectious diseases doctors, the return of facial freedom might…
DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
Whether that mission succeeds could have consequences far beyond DuckDuckGo’s bottom line. DuckDuckGo is operating to some extent in the shadow of Apple, which has already made privacy a core…
Are your neighbors vaccinated? Michigan map shows rates by census tracts | Bridge Michigan
A look at 2,700 neighborhoods reveals wide discrepancies by race, income level, education — but perhaps not political affiliation. The map comes as vaccination rates slow in Michigan. {read}
Silicon Valley’s propaganda machine
The Future is here. After announcing it was getting into the content game earlier this year, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, launched its Future blog this week to…
9 Books About Being Unemployed and Underemployed – Electric Literature
Elizabeth Gonzalez James, author of "Mona at Sea," recommends stories about struggling under capitalism. {read}
CDC director warns delta variant could soon become dominant coronavirus strain in US
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, said the delta variant “is far more contagious than any variant we have seen throughout this…
Inside The Production Of ‘City Of Ghosts’ With French Animation Studio TeamTO
How to describe City of Ghosts, a new series that leafs through the many layers of Los Angeles’s past? Its creator Elizabeth Ito has disavowed the word “mockumentary”: she didn’t…
Are You Part of a Cult? The Answer May Surprise You
Montell doesn’t examine cults through the voyeuristic or sensational lens often generated by The Vow, Wild, Wild Country, and other recent docuseries. Rather than participating in the spectacle from the…
What’s the future of the Metro Detroit commute?
"The past year made a lot of people have to think differently about how they work and what their daily routines look like, and also made a lot of people…