Recently returned books are fun to browse.

The most interesting overlooked spot of your local library? A tucked-away shelf labeled "Recently Returned."

↩︎ The New York Times Dec 5, 2018

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Each segment of Yi Dai's *Tide Table* paintings is made from a single ink drop that spreads organically through the paper.

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 8h

“We’re realizing more and more that whatever benefits that we get, there’s always a ‘but’ to it... So, yes, we had a black president, but now we have a racist white president. We’re not living in a post-racial society. We just elected a black president. That’s all we did.”

African-American millennials are expected to be emblematic of a “post-racial society,” but they know full well it’s a sham.

↩︎ The New Republic

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Iranian postage stamps come to life in a video based on Sara Jamshidi's Project M, which uses the stamps to tell a cultural and political history of Iran.

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Two dozen people—a banker, a sex worker, “the World’s First Publicly Traded Person”—tell us the best use for a dollar.

↩︎ The Morning News 11h

A proposal for a dataset "nutrition label" with the goal of improving algorithms and making them more inclusive.

↩︎ The Data Nutrition Project 11h

Music genres—1,500 of them—described by the most common words in their titles.

↩︎ Every Noise at Once 11h

Following the FDA statement that young-blood transfusions offer no benefits to the aging, one such startup has already shut down.

↩︎ STAT 12h

Antiabortion groups, for example, used the technology to track women who entered waiting rooms of abortion clinics in more than a half dozen cities... and push ads touting alternatives to abortion.

Your phone apps legally sell your data to outside groups who use geofencing to know your exact location, now and in the past.

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times

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Predicting the end of drugstores, some new CVS and Walgreens stores are becoming health and wellness clinics.

↩︎ CNBC 15h

A new wave of "living off the land" malware—which employs small scripts in legitimate files—is quietly stealing user credentials.

↩︎ Ars Technica 15h

Recent paintings by Dario Maglionico are ultra-realistic, except for the people caught between dimensions.

↩︎ Booooooom 17h

Whenever I have some time to myself, I panic. Unstructured time—especially spent alone—is phenomenally rare in my life and I feel an overwhelming obligation to make good use of it. I should get some laundry done. Meal prep. Ask each item in my dresser if it brings me joy.

Our current everything-is-a-hustle era has ruined the purpose of hobbies.

↩︎ Man Repeller

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"The wearable EKG offers the comforting weight of medicine itself, worn on the wrist like an amulet warding off evil."

↩︎ The Atlantic 19h

No trust issues here: profiles of the couples who GPS-track one another (with permission).

↩︎ MEL Magazine 19h

As we continue to think about appropriation, here's Chicano チカーノ, a short documentary from 2016 about how Chicano culture has been embraced in Japan—less for gang style than family values.

For a more recent take, see Walter Thompson-Hernández in the New York Times, "How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan."

Neighborhoods in America have changed drastically but for two types: poor black neighborhoods and affluent white and Asian ones.

↩︎ Citylab 1d

“It’s like living in the zoo and you’re the only monkey left." In Cisco, Utah, ruin porn has become a tourist commodity.

↩︎ Places 1d

There has always been a division between black performers and the fruit of their creativity.

Making the argument for a space for popular dances in Fortnite that also allows artists to be compensated.

↩︎ waypoint

The odds of being killed by cops when unarmed are about the same for black and white males; for black women, they're much higher.

↩︎ the SOURCE 1d

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