(Via Political Blindspot. Thanks, Matthew!)
Can you see the racism now?
Black officers say racism is endemic in Capitol Police
If you're wondering why the rioters in Trump's coup attempt last week were able to breach barriers and break into the Capitol so easily, this ProPublica article offers a couple of reasons. First, some of the Capitol Police helped the rioters into the building, and second, the agency is full of racists. Racism: Since 2001,… READ THE REST
WATCH|Disastrous CBS Interview with Miya Ponsetto who tackled Black teen she falsely accused of stealing her phone
Miya Ponsetto was arrested for attacking a Black teenager at a New York City hotel last week. Ponsetto was recorded on video at the hotel falsely accusing the 14-year-old and tackling him when he refused to let her confiscate his phone. In this CBS News interview, Ponsetto describes herself as "super-sweet," portrays herself as the… READ THE REST
Former FX tech person points out the racist trajectory of skin and hair CGI
Theodore Kim is a Yale computer science professor who's worked for years on techniques for rendering computer-generated humans; he used to be a senior research scientist at Pixar. In Scientific American, he wrote a fascinating piece detailing the racial dynamics of CGI. While computer graphics has become enormously better in recent decades at reproducing the… READ THE REST
These blue-light-blocking glasses are here to protect your eyes from the screens you look at all day long
Add another piece of bad news to COVID's destructive fallout: it might be further wrecking your eyesight. With so many of us working from home, the time many now spent in front of a screen is on a drastic rise, now reaching up to 13 hours a day or more. All those device screens just… READ THE REST
These Star Trek smart key organizers are as brilliant as Data and as logical as Spock
Sometimes, you run across an item that's so functional and necessary that you've gotta have it. Other times, you find something that's so wonderfully geeky that you've gotta have it. The sweet spot is when you can find something that scratches both of those distinct itches. These Star Trek edition KeySmart Pro Key Organizers with… READ THE REST
With 18 courses and over 460 hours of training, this is the CompTIA certification bundle you've been waiting for
With so many different protocols, competing frameworks, and differences of opinion floating around, it's often tough for the text industry to come together and agree on virtually anything. However, time and circumstance can occasionally come together to codify a certain app, tool, or technique as the one true way to get things done. When it… READ THE REST