The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 3

The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge Join our discussion of The Night Ocean.

The Morning News
A new book by photographer Philippe Glade captures the ephemeral architecture of Burning Man.
↩︎ Curbed 2h
While players flirt with activism in the NBA and NFL, the WNBA's Seattle Storm partner with Planned Parenthood.
↩︎ The Nation 2h
The behaviors of murderous bears, as researched by a novelist who needs one for his plot.
↩︎ LitHub 2h
Trump name-drops MS-13 to build support for deportations—but it was Bill Clinton's deportations that created MS-13.
↩︎ The Atlantic 3h
An FAQ on the travel ban ruling, with one big question unanswered: What qualifies as a "bona fide relationship?"
↩︎ The New York Times 3h

Crony capitalism may be slowly cannibalizing productive capitalism.

Study says most American entrepreneurs merely look for rents, including those provided by oligopoly and state capture.
↩︎ Bloomberg
3h
Reasons Mark Zuckerberg isn't running for president. (Also, he's already leading history's largest group of people.)
↩︎ Kottke 3h
A group of Australians are saving joeys trapped in their mothers' pouches after being hit by vehicles.
↩︎ The New York Times 3h
Academics won't prep students to enter an emotional economy—jobs left will require compassion computers can't mimic.
↩︎ Aeon 7h
The themes of Margaret Atwood's novels—and her life—are the themes that define our world in 2017.
↩︎ Vox 7h
TrumpBlocks.me lists those Trump has blocked on Twitter, a valuable archive of First Amendment encroachment.
↩︎ Wired 7h
Google now knows so much about you that it will no longer scan your email to gather advertising data.
↩︎ Quartz 7h

One called him “the face of corporate greed”, another labeled him “the most hated man in America” and a third gestured as if wringing his neck.

Lawyers for the Martin Shkreli trial are having a hard time finding impartial jurors.
↩︎ The Guardian
8h
When left alone, a pair of chatbots deviated into gibberish, but eventually reached a sense of compromise.
↩︎ The Next Web 8h
Architectural history/parody blog McMansion Hell gets cease-and-desisted by Zillow.
↩︎ The Verge 21h
Predictions from 20 years ago on Hong Kong's future under China were overblown. Then again, it's still early.
↩︎ BBC 22h
Burning lands where chronic wasting disease lies in wait may be the only way to save wildlife from an epidemic.
↩︎ The New York Times 22h
"I never thought there were so many of them": Pride photos from '70s San Francisco.
↩︎ The Bold Italic 1d
Fascinating slide deck of computing without electricity; alternate media include DNA, fluids, and crabs.
↩︎ Charles Reid 1d

The most startling flashback in the history of American television is the one that takes us from a black screen to the first successful test of an atomic bomb in New Mexico, on August 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m.

It's happening again. With the latest Twin Peaks episode, David Lynch and Mark Frost are rewriting the rules of television.
↩︎ Vulture
1d