Author: Sean

• An American Spring of Reckoning – In death, George Floyd’s name has become a metaphor for the stacked inequities of the society that produced them.
• Mozilla VPN
• 21 essential films about Black lives, in every major genre
• How American Racism Influenced Adolf Hitler
• Which figures from 1968/1969 look good in retrospect?
• The Return of the 90s Web

• The Cruelty Is the Point – Adam Serwer nailed it in 2018
• Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets

• Has pandemic pushed us into a post-human future?
• Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp
• 8:46 – Dave Chappelle 🔥

Fantastic and horrifying cover from Kadir Nelson for the New Yorker. The interactive version of the cover details the individual and their stories in the image.

• Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First
• Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas follows comedian and writer Wyatt Cenac as he explores America’s most pressing issues. Check it out on YouTube
• For the First Time Trump Faces Crises Not of His Own Making

This episode of Last Week Tonight provides a good summary of how we got to now. Make sure to watch through the very end