Mr. McMillan

Former mortgage specialist turned digital strategist and social media adviser.

[sami @hellosami]

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive and (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them ✂️

[The Field Negro @NotMyMAGAuncle]

Black Farmers Win Court Case That Restores $127 Million in Federal Grants https://t.co/bi9QvwseBD

[Ben Oreskes @boreskes]

New York City Hasn’t Built This Many Apartments Since 1965 https://t.co/0kmqqPKS5a via @WSJ

[NYC Dept of Records @nycrecords]

Want to go to a museum without leaving your home with A/C? ❄️

Check out https://t.co/iPyswp3Ncm, where you can explore 400 years of NYC history! Photos, maps, videos, exhibit rooms, captions...besides admission and a sign to the bathrooms, it's got it all. 🗽♥️✨

#BeatTheHeat

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The Supreme Court justices ruled on Monday that constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone location data.

At issue was the police use of what's known as "geofence warrants" to locate all devices near the scene of a crime in 2019.

The court ruled that, even when location information is shared with companies like Google and Apple, people don't forfeit their expectations of privacy.

The case was widely viewed as a test for how privacy would be protected in this digital age.

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

For millions of Americans who can’t afford to buy, renting isn’t a choice.

A @guardian investigation shows how private equity-backed corporate landlords exploit them, one invented fee at a time. Just look at what Greystar charges:

• a penalty for “breaking the lease” by dying (charged to one grieving family)
• DNA testing of your dog’s poop
• $26.75/mo “boiler management fee”
• $95/mo “lifestyle fee” (for a spin room and picnic tables)
• $25/mo “valet trash,” a service that costs the landlord $8
• “final bill fee,” charged just to stop being their tenant
• a fee to pay your rent online
• “variable refrigerant flow fee”
• “solar rebill fee”
• “stormwater/drainage admin fee”

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: Walmart is paying $1.4 billion to purchase a French advertising-technology firm, investing heavily to continue its efforts to compete with Amazon for new advertising revenue streams. https://t.co/2Jr323EED6

[The Conversation Africa @TC_Africa]

Oceans are accumulating medications, pesticides and other chemicals. Research from South Africa's False Bay reveals the scale of the problem for marine life.

https://t.co/W8rhuKyqB1

#EnvironmentAndEnergy

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Wikipedia won't let AI edit articles, cofounder says.

The problem of AI "hallucinations" -- in which fabricated output is confidently presented -- has been reduced with newer AI models but remains "very, very bad", Jimmy Wales tells AFP

https://t.co/8SzpT4fOfX

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

News: Meta is currently building a prediction markets app to rival Polymarket and Kalshi, according to sources

the app, currently called "Arena," will be a standalone offering and was ordered up by Mark Zuckerberg

w/ @yaffebellany

https://t.co/IobogS4xkV

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

"All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
Is Change.

God
Is Change."

On Octavia Butler's birthday, her immortal reckoning with change: https://t.co/Uj1i17itc0

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

US District Judge Rita Lin on June 15 signaled that she will likely order Workday, the maker of popular AI-powered HR software, to face claims that it violated California law by weeding out job applicants at companies for discriminatory reasons https://t.co/z4lYRqS8NQ

[The Architect's Newspaper @archpaper]

Boston is investing significant resources to flip office buildings into housing. Massachusetts is now soliciting proposals from developers to convert the Lindemann and Hurley buildings, part of the Boston Government Service Center, into housing.
https://t.co/fsa1JQgHlt

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

The Freedom Quilting Bee is a folk-art legend. But the real work of art was the 23 acres of cooperatively Black-owned land nestled away in the fertile Black Belt of Alabama that the quilts bought the community. https://t.co/qzL2crzoPB

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Five days a week, border collies Hercules and Ned help protect planes and passengers from bird strikes at an airport.

The hard-working boys have built up a fanbase while living at the airport full-time. https://t.co/uxFWcBel4s

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Happy Juneteenth! I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you. https://t.co/p3747yiBFg

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

Happy Juneteenth!

[Vince Valholla @VinceValholla]

Late last night I found out over 100+ songs from our catalog were used to train AI models. Thanks to The Atlantic, they leaked a database of millions of songs that have been used by the biggest AI music companies like Udio and Suno.

To be honest, until the major labels go through their lawsuits, there’s no way for artists or labels to fight back. They literally scraped the best songs from our catalog. I’m sick. If you want to check songs from the database, comment “AI Watchdog”.