The Universe contains more electromagnetic vibrations — colors — than we will ever see, but they nonetheless permeate space & time, and occasionally, if we are open to them, our hearts.

Solar Eclipses are one of Nature’s great spectacles: The Sun is 400x wider than the Moon and 400x farther away, making them the same size on the sky -- endowing Earth with the most badass eclipses in the Solar System.

Total student loan debt: $1.6T Total cost of the 2017 Republican tax cuts: $1.9T Funny how Trump and Republicans can up with the money to give corporations and billionaires massive tax cuts, but call cancelling student debt radical.

I made $26,000 in Colorado Springs (market #89) in my first (and last) local TV job. I often gave plasma to afford groceries and gas. The pay in local journalism is ABYSMAL and has been for years and this Columbia Journalism Review story is a great look at that. cjr.org/united_states_…

Intriguing artwork by Alesya Matziush: is it Nature prevailing on pollution? #beautifulbizarre #AlesyaMatziush #digitalart #illustration #fantasy #horse #nature #ecology #darkart #newcontemporaryart #art #darksurrealism

"We could sit around and wring our hands and say 'This sucks,' or we could figure out what else we could do." buff.ly/2S6kWGb

Another example of how #dataprivacy breaches disproportionately impact those living on low incomes: economist.com/international/… #DigitalCivilRights

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world. trib.al/3pg94KC

Excited to launch this new investigation w Trevor Paglen - to be read alongside ImageNet Roulette. It's about how training data works, the costs of classification, and why "removing bias" or "increasing diversity of data" isn't enough 👁️ excavating.ai

Wow, sixty Amazon warehouse workers—mostly East African women—in Egan, Minnesota went on strike last night over part-time work and wages. I spoke to one of the organizers about the strike: vice.com/en_us/article/…

Google needs more images of dark-skinned people for its #facialRecognition. And its contractors may be using some questionable methods, “including targeting groups of #homeless people and tricking college students who didn’t know they were being recorded.” theverge.com/2019/10/2/2089…

“You’re telling me there’s evidence that you have a serial molester of underage girls and that allowing him one year in a local jail on work release every day is a reasonable deal? That’s absurd." ow.ly/S49f30pFsp4

A gamelan ensemble recorded in Bali in 1985.

Just when we caught a glimpse of justice for Botham Jean, much of it feels stolen back with the murder of Joshua Brown, a key witness in the case. My heart breaks for his family and for everyone touched by this tragedy. We must get to the bottom of this injustice.

A community-driven, crowd-sourced list of Black artists, labels, and producers to support on Bandcamp today and every day: blackbandcamp.info

The summer solstice will occur at 2:43 PM PDT tomorrow (Saturday, June 20). This marks the beginning of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere (meteorological summer began on June 1). For more information on the summer solstice, see: scijinks.gov/solstice/ #CAwx

Sing it with me! Loud and clear! This land is our land. Thank you to the immortal Sharon Jones - a true voice of my heart. Freedom is truth. Freedom is accountability. Freedom is right action. Honor the land and all peoples, and we'll be truly free. youtu.be/1ifbleDsSsI

To all those having trouble saying it. Black Lives Matter. See, it really isn’t that difficult.

Is there a word for "the last peak before decline?" Like "apotheosis" (top) + "nadir" (bottom). We see the most extreme form of a thing before it collapses.

The year is 20xx. Fast trains connect most of the world's largest cities. There are no borders and fares are free. Where do you go? larger and editable version: californiarailmap.com/one-world-subw…