Facebook is having a bad week.

A round-up of Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good 24 hours—facing whistleblowers, scandal, and regulation.

↩︎ The Plum Line Mar 21, 2018

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A wonderful documentary short about David Worobec, a classically trained vocalist who sings every role for a theater he built using miniature figures and sets.

Among the findings of an analysis on domestic slayings in America: Nearly a third of the perpetrators were publicly known threats.

↩︎ The Washington Post 8h

The dirty secret of self-care few want to address: Without access to mental health support, many are left caring for themselves.

↩︎ Tonic 9h

After eight years of budget cuts, the IRS is conducting fewer audits for everyone except the Republican-targeted working poor.

↩︎ ProPublica 9h

In 2018, "warming air and ocean temperatures continued to drive broad long-term change across the polar region, pushing the Arctic into uncharted territory."

The Arctic is undergoing its “most unprecedented transition in human history,” and we’re still not doing anything about it.

↩︎ The New York Times

"I think accountants are designing these buildings." Ugly or not, boxy buildings add much-needed housing to growing cities.

↩︎ Curbed 10h

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↩︎ TMN Store 10h

Book designers name their 75 favorite book covers of the year.

↩︎ Literary Hub 10h

Kenneth Starr—yes, that Kenneth Starr—is the highest-paid university executive in the US, at almost $5 million annually.

↩︎ The Chronicle of Higher Education 10h

A new book will celebrate James Niehues, whose work you know if you've used a North American ski map in the past 30 years.

↩︎ Kickstarter 10h

Analysts predict automation's rise will mean less coffee (because of fewer workers) and more CBD (because of tech over-stimulus).

↩︎ Business Insider 10h

To comfort children who are homeless, and reduce stigma, Sesame Street reintroduces Lily, whose family has lost its home.

↩︎ USA Today 10h

The drama unfolds quietly, the rites and objects of tea ceremonies fraught with tension at a tea cottage... The book paints a portrait of a Japanese society, like that of many other Asian countries, lurching towards modernity while caught in the inertial pull of the past.

Pitchaya Sudbanthad on books that can transport you to other lands.

↩︎ Electric Literature

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Hearing "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in 1950 sealed Sayyid Qutb's beliefs about Western morals; his writings later inspired al Qaeda.

↩︎ Quartz 10h

A new report explains all the ways the Trump-era Dept. of the Interior has become a shill for fossil-fuel interests.

↩︎ Los Angeles Times 10h

How *Myst* changed gaming into a first-person, nonlinear experience that doesn't depend on violence or time limits.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 11h

Japanese regulations to avoid pufferfish poisoning are tested with the introduction of a climate-induced hybrid species.

↩︎ Reuters 11h

Dollar stores feed more Americans than Whole Foods.

↩︎ Institute for Local Self-Reliance 12h

The organizational method of the Yellow Vests “corresponds to that of the sans culottes,” the commoners in the earliest moments of 1789, “only with more women.”

Protests in France are similar to previous revolutionary movements. Once, it was the price of bread; now, it’s the price of gas.

↩︎ The New York Review of Books

Egypt bans the sale of yellow vests for fear of any protests inspired by those in France.

↩︎ The Associated Press 1d

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