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Heaven or High Water: Selling Miami's last 50 years
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22407705
> Heaven or High Water Selling Miami's last 50 years
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How Ivy League Admissions Broke America
www.theatlantic.com How the Ivy League Broke AmericaThe meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The title doesn't do it justice; A history of the creation of competitive selective enrollment at educational institutions (not limited to the Ivies), and a discussion of its impacts on American society, as well as a consideration of possible alternatives.
- www.theguardian.com ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffering?
- www.nytimes.com Learning to Connect With Friends — Without Alcohol
Quitting drinking was the easy part. Figuring out how to be myself was harder.
> > > By the time the entrees came, we’d reached the end of these “so what else is new” updates. I recognized that we were at a threshold — one I had been unable to cross so far without booze. > >
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Collecting artifacts from ocean liners meeting their demise
www.afar.com This Is Where Cruise Ships Go to Die. Meet the Man Saving ThemPeter Knego has gone to extremes salvaging at-risk history. He says it’s worth the gamble.
- www.thenation.com Who Voted for Hitler?
Just as there are myths about Trump voters, there are damaging misconceptions about who brought the Nazis to power.
If you couldn't be bothered to read it: It was mainly protestant Germans from rural areas, as well as upper-middle-class districts.
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The Averra Docier: How one man faked discord "democracy" for over 3 years
danyo.substack.com The Averra Dossier: Secretive network of over 35 alt accounts revealedFor over two years, Averra has rigged every election in Alcris, stacked every branch of government and political party, and covertly repressed political opponents with his alt accounts.
Also available as a documentary style video essay on YouTube.
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Interview with Alex Van Halen about his brother Eddie
www.rollingstone.com Alex Van Halen Book Interview: My Brother, Eddie Van HalenIn his first interview since Eddie Van Halen's death, Alex Van Halen tells all – including the story behind a cancelled tour with David Lee Roth
This is to support a new book that Alex wrote, but they don't really talk about the book. They mostly talk to Alex about what it's like to grow old, various attempts at touring again, and how he's doing getting over Eddie's death. I though it was pretty moving in places.
- www.propublica.org In a State With School Vouchers For All, Low-Income Families Aren’t Choosing to Use Them
Working-class parents often express interest in vouchers. But in Arizona, the nation’s school choice capital, these families aren’t using them due to the inaccessibility of private schools and the costs of transportation, meals and uniforms.
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The Race to Save Mezcal from the World
www.smithsonianmag.com The Race to Save Mezcal From the WorldClimate change, corporate money, soaring demand—can Mexico’s local agave growers find a viable path for a beloved beverage?
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Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
www.wired.com Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism WrongOn its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
> [We] have now fully turned in terms of public sentiment toward Big Tech. People have to use it because you can’t participate in society without it, but that’s not winning users. That’s coercion. We’re talking about lock-in, where other options have been foreclosed by state abandonment or monopoly. The demand for an alternative has never been stronger.
- www.inkandswitch.com Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
> Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost. > > In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.
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The Botanist Who Defied Stalin
How Vavilov, the Mendelev of botany, was prosecuted for speaking out against Lamarckian pseudoevolution, and how his institute worked tirelessly and hugrily to preserve his seed bank during the Siege of Leningrad.
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An exploration into the biggest challenge to the proposed Yucca Nuclear Waste Repository: Warning future beings against treating it as an Indiana Jones film set.
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Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the ‘Soul of the Internet’
www.rollingstone.com Internet Archive: Inside $621 Million Legal Battle by Record LabelsMajor record labels have sued the Internet Archive for $621 million over thousands of old recordings, raising the question: Who owns the past?
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What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see
www.bbc.co.uk Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean?BBC reporter gains access to the remote ocean territory despite UK and US attempts to stop her.
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When do women have the right to kill in self defense?
www.nytimes.com Opinion | Who Gets to Kill in Self-Defense?Self-defense laws were written for men. This is how they fail women who fight back.
- www.dissentmagazine.org "Zionism Über Alles" - Dissent Magazine
The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone.
> The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone.
- www.thenation.com The Intractable Puzzle of Growth
For more than a century, the key measure of a healthy economy has been its capacity to grow and yet if production and consumption continues to expand at their current rate we might risk the very health of the planet.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15726314
> This is a surprisingly interesting thinkpiece for its length that ultimately arrives at no conclusion, but it's an important discussion to be having while we still can.
- www.versobooks.com We're So Glad It's You
Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, stands in Hebron and watches as soldiers beat his source. In front of him is the Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro, thrown to the ground by Israeli soldiers, who then punch and kick him for having asked to speak to their commanding officer. ...
