"When the FBI went after musicians with alleged ties to Communism, Burl Ives saved his career by testifying, but at great personal cost." https://crimereads.com/the-fbi-the-second-red-scare-and-the-folk-singer-who-cooperated/

"I keep talking to engineers who are frustrated that they aren’t leveling up faster. . .. And I’ve begun to notice a common blind spot." https://charity.wtf/2020/09/14/useful-things-to-know-about-engineering-levels/

"One of the earliest and most important of these groups was Top Value Television (TVTV), a collective founded in San Francisco which was active from 1972 to 1979. During that time, they produced numerous independent documentaries, often by bringing their cameras to major events. TVTV’s vast catalog of raw footage and other materials has long been kept in the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)." https://hyperallergic.com/584119/bampfa-tvtv-online-archive/

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Sitting for hours and hours weakens your back and core muscles, pinches the nerves of your rear end and constrains the flow of blood your body needs for peak energy and attention. Most of us are largely unsuited to extended periods in these structures. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs

The British sandwich industry transformed the way we eat lunch, then did the same for breakfast. Now we are seeing a reckoning on the high street. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain

In a year of reckoning with racial injustice, the shortlist demonstrates the publishing industry’s commitment to do better. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/09/2020-booker-prize-shortlist-most-diverse-and-international-ever

‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows

While we choose leaders who are more stereotypically extroverted and charismatic in in-person environments, we gravitate towards doers, planners, and connectors in remote settings. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200827-why-in-person-leaders-may-not-be-the-best-virtual-ones

"Starting a whole new chapter together" – WNBA star Maya Moore on marrying the man she helped free from prison. Love has no bounds. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/16/maya-moore-basketball-marries-man-free-from-prison-jonathan-irons-wnba

An archaeologist shares the results of new research on musical instruments in Southern Africa. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/southern-africa-instruments/

The fearmongers were wrong. Five years since Merkel admitted 1M refugees, they have largely been a success story, judging by their employment, mastery of the language, university attendance, and integration. The predicted violence came from the far right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/04/merkel-trump-migration-europe/

Computer security is nothing new. Here's a paper by Dorothy E. Denning from back in 1990 that discusses the motivations of hackers who break the law. http://faculty.nps.edu/dedennin/publications/ConcerningHackers-NCSC.txt

A 16th century Automaton Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=14y_7yNEnG8&feature=emb_logo

A man in England used a live snake as a face covering. He took the reptile on a bus.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-54163293

My Amazon review of _Texas Q_, by Cheryl Alters Jamison

4 stars

A worthy barbecue cookbook for anyone with a smoker #cookbooks #bbq #cosobookclub https://amzn.to/2Rzx0R4

" As threats of election interference mount, two teams of AI researchers have recently introduced novel approaches to identifying deepfakes by watching for evidence of heartbeats." https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/03/ai-researchers-use-heartbeat-detection-to-identify-deepfake-videos/

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank

From the 1910s to the 1950s, an independent Black American film industry catered to its own segregated audience, had its own African American directors, stars and studios. https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/02/06/race-movies-and-the-black-owned-studios-that-ran-parallel-to-mainstream-hollywood/