Showing the first edit of a short doc I made at a screening at @AnthologyFilm tonight. It’s about a small recycling operation run by homeless canners in Brooklyn. Starts at 7.
BREAKING: The House just passed #HR620, the ADA Education and Reform Act, which limits the power of the Americans with Disabilities Act and turns back the clock on disability rights in America. This is deeply shameful.
“God help us all if the carbon didn’t take.”
Handwritten documents, Manila folders, carbon paper — welcome to Cook County criminal court: https://t.co/tXlCJm0ofe
(via @crepeau)
On Page 1, the @washingtonpost reports that the president doesn’t read his daily intel brief. On Page 4, it reports that his son-in-law, who hasn’t been able to get a permanent clearance, does.
FARMING FACTOID: Livestock raised for food in the USA are dosed with five times as much antibiotic medicine as farm animals in the UK.
https://t.co/yeT3AdMPWJ
I hunted her father for 10 months before I left the program. 6 months later he was killed in a drone strike. 2 weeks after that her brother, 16 years old, was killed.
Remember these people. They never deserved to be killed. We are the monster that we fear to become. https://t.co/aBgZkTwnbV
You might assume U.S. gun crimes are solved by police entering a weapon’s serial number into a computing system to find a perpetrator. Due to NRA lobbying, the data is instead stored among paper records of the low-tech, underfunded National Tracing Center https://t.co/W0pEoAUO6v
Jerome Powell will be confirmed as Fed Chair in 10 minutes. Let's take a walk down memory lane and remember what senators said about Yellen 4 years ago. As Victoria notes, no Fed Chair has ever gotten fewer votes for confirmation. (Thread) https://t.co/bzLfsSOJME
Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles.
Facebook, the most popular media owner, creates no content.
Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory.
Airbnb, the largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate.
-Tom Goodwin
#Technology#Davos18