"the true danger from artificial intelligence would be how it disrespected human life" 👁️ aka: why watch #BlackMirror when you can read the news?

The point of When They See Us is that the falsely convicted Central Park Five are more than a cause to champion, but lives to be seen, experienced, felt. That’s why it can be so hard to watch. There’s a lesson for Silicon Valley, I write for WIRED. 1/3 wired.com/story/the-cent…

The way Silicon Valley delivery apps treat their workers — demanding a hamster-like existence, confiscating tips — had me channeling Pete Seeger, who’d say that an enemy of labor unions could always get by "on what he takes out of blind men’s cups.” 1/2 wired.com/story/seeing-t…

.Alice Proujansky worked on this critical story about how the only (!) black identifying midwife in MN is working to build a safer environment for black women to give birth. The access she got is in no small part due to her following this beat for many years. theguardian.com/society/2019/j…

Looks like I picked the wrong week ... youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA

“How are you?” “I’m alive.” An illustrator taking shelter in Kyiv sketches life underground and text exchanges between family and friends. nyer.cm/b6WFR2Y

Rare look into Rikers by illustrator Medar de la Cruz

While witnessing the desperate conditions of Rikers Island, a library assistant sees how books become a sense of comfort and a means of escape. Illustrator Medar de la Cruz captures a rare look into Rikers: newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker The New Yorker buff.ly/3O3fJ0O

IN FLIGHT read and experience a pilot’s-eye view of life in the sky. Animations by Carl Burton nytimes.com/interactive/20…

We lost! Brutally! As promised, my opening remarks from last night (and why I'll never get a design job in ’Frisco) medium.com/p/6926651b8254

#lillicarré blew my mind with an incredible animation to accompany a sound installation "When Soaring Sings" opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/bir…

After 11 formative years The New York Times I'm excited to join Nicholas Blechman + team The New Yorker

Enter this! Also a crazy juror lineup. Also I'm the chair. So. Why not? x.com/soi128/status/…

Food, theatre, art, and music. The best of N.Y.C.'s cultural offerings, all in one place: our brand-new @goingson. nyer.cm/V5GENlm

Metrorail ridership for Sat, Jan 21 = 1,001,616 #wmata

Things no woman or person of color could do: acquire one of the most powerful jobs in the world and show up looking like this.

Today is the last day to enroll for 2017 coverage HealthCare.gov. RT to let those you love know. bit.ly/2kPI75U

TONIGHT! 6PM NYU Bookstores, Noam Cohen discusses his new book The Know-It-Alls w/NYT editor Bruce Headlam bit.ly/2ziHQTR