The web is for everyone: Our vision for the evolution of the web
“We believe to make the web a better place we need to focus our work on these nine areas.” From Mozilla. [Link]
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What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination means to Black women
“At the start of this week’s hearing, The 19th spoke to people who gathered on the steps of the high court about what her historic journey to the most powerful bench in the United States means.” [Link]
In most states, over half of all women of color earn less than a living wage
“In nine states, 50 percent or more of all women workers are earning less than $15 an hour. But in 40 states, 50 percent or more of all women of color — Black women, Latinas, Native American women and Asian American and Pacific Islander women — are earning below a living wage.
That's one highly leveraged squirrel video
That's one highly leveraged squirrel video
Equal Pay Day: What can transparency laws do to the gender pay gap?
“After years of little progress toward pay equity, more and more states and localities are passing pay transparency laws that eliminate the secrecy around salaries and could be a powerful tool for eliminating the gender pay gap.” [Link]
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery
“An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof.” Nightmare fuel. [Link]
Mark and Lily Osler: Governor’s order on transgender youth cruel, short-sighted
“Because Gov. Abbott has moved to threaten transgender kids by criminalizing the kind of support they need, it’s time for Lily and me to tell this part of our family story and to address the harm Gov. Abbott is doing.” [Link]
The case for induction cooking
“But for all the sexiness of cooking with gas (a concept bolstered by aggressive lobbying and advertising from the natural gas industry), it has been shown to be catastrophic for the environment, emitting potent greenhouse gases like methane into the atmosphere. Worse, a recent study demonstrated that 75 percent of
Grimes Reveals Y, Her New Baby Daughter With Elon Musk, in Cover Interview
Come for the secret baby, stay for an interview that makes Grimes seem like a pretty cool person. [Link]
Tatiana Perebyinis and two children identified as those seen dead in viral Lynsey Addario photo from Ukraine
“Photos flashing on his Twitter feed showed four people lying next to a World War II memorial just outside Kyiv after they were fired on by the Russian military. One of them was his wife, and two were his children.” Pure horror. [Link]
After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on
“We found evidence of a complex engine of surveillance tailor-made for keeping close tabs on protesters and sharing that information among local and federal agencies, regardless of whether the subjects were suspected of any wrongdoing.” [Link]
How COVID pressure led single moms to turn to coliving with other adults
“The move to cohabitation eased a significant amount of pressure for Villagomez-Morales at a time when parents, but especially single parents, were being squeezed on all sides — by child care, loss of work and extreme burnout. That, mixed with a housing market that has become increasingly inhospitable to low-