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operating with the secrecy of an intelligence agency and the authority of a state government, Facebook has arrogated to itself vast powers while enjoying, until recently, limited journalistic scrutiny

I’m not a gamer so this world is foreign to me but this was an interesting read. So much drama :)

the camel will be loaded with straw until the last

Definitely seen that happen

It could be that if you spend all day thinking of ways to break a system, you realize how easily everything can be broken.

That’s an interesting thought

Very true. I’ve seen this on my own projects

He came up with a version of a SAFE note that allows the founders to buy out the VC at a predetermined amount if they ever become sufficiently profitable

That’s an interesting approach.

I love the types of thought experiments as discussed in this article.

The power of estimation is amazing. The ability to construct close-to-accurate measurements with limited information is a useful skill to have.

While it's certainly true that people do idiotic things, it's also true that a lot of those "idiotic" things turn out to have perfectly reasonable explanations.

Norwegian student officers must complete a three-year bachelor’s degree where they spend one year studying society and ethics, another shadowing officers, and a final year focusing on investigations and completing a thesis (In the United States, officers spend only on average 21 weeks in training which are modelled on military bootcamps).

“Slight” difference there

it's also important to understand that not all success is a result of hard work, and that not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when forming opinions about others, including yourself

Thanks for sharing your insights, Alexa. So much food for thought.

This is how someone gets radicalized and polarized by an algorithm.

You know, the above sounds like such a simple and almost trivial statement but it’s probably the biggest challenge any democracy faces in the age of information

I love how ReadUp teaches me new stuff every day

Comment regarding credit cards:

Imagine that you’re making $2 or $3 million a year and they’re capping you at $20,000 a month

That’s some serious 1%er problem.

It’s a fitting bit of low-grade legal shithousing from a company that was most memorably described as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

Hunter-gatherers developed a distinct feature called intergenerational cooperation: Parents help kids, and children help parents.

That’s super interesting

This is crazy on so many levels. Especially the fact that the cops had to lie to cover up the fact that they are racially targeting vehicles

It blocks all tracking pixels, disabling read receipts and other surveillance.

This is great!

Yes, this is so so incredibly important to understand. White privilege = you don’t see the water

Research shows that reading not only helps with fluid intelligence, but with reading comprehension and emotional intelligence as well. You make smarter decisions about yourself and those around you. All of these benefits require actually reading

Great news for ReadUp

Some good thought provoking going on here

There is no hatred in this world quite like the hatred of a $100,000-a-year man for a $200,000-a-year man, except maybe the hatred of a $200,000-a-year man for a $200,002-a-year man

This needs to be AOTD! Great article.

Even right now, the GYPSYs reading this are thinking, “Good point…but I actually am one of the few special ones”—and this is the problem.

That’s totally me!

Good to see some of those terms explained for non technical people like me. I didn’t know what a data lake was before

I kinda wish I didn’t read that

That’s so heavy and powerful.

Interesting time to be alive. That’s all I’ve got to say :)

To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation’s governing rules, as Calhoun and Buchanan both called for and the Koch network is achieving, play by play, is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form.

This might be a tough read if you’re not into economics but if you make the effort, it’s very enlightening and probably more so disheartening. I wish more people would stop and try to understand what’s going on. This is scary.

This is exactly what confuses my brain so much:

Two weeks ago we shamed people for being in the street; today we shame them for not being in the street.

What the actual fuck!!

The officers strategically deflated the tires to “stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement,”

It’s ironic to read an article about how you forget what you read in an article. There are some good tips in here though

Yeah wow this was awkward to read and it’s encouraging to see that there were consequences to publishing this

Powerful statements and clear demands

The murder of George Floyd was the result of inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy

Interesting. I agree with Chesky's view on how companies have a role to play and this was certainly a courageous move.

I really enjoyed reading this. I found it insightful, balanced and very relatable

This was likely my first article that I read about Jenner and it was eye opening

Confronting stuff!

Kendi goes further, defining the word racist as: "One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.

the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States

... Facebook would pledge $10 million to groups working on racial justice.

Because throwing money at it is always the answer

Ha, that’s a fascinating perspective and feels pretty accurate.

being a black person in this world doesn’t kill you, but being a black person in America clearly can

The law only deals with the aftermath. Clearly police brutality isn’t an issue the law can fix. That’s an educational / training / policy type thing for the police i.e. government to solve

What an amazing story. So powerful and inspiring.