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You can't handle the truth! Or, what do I know, maybe you can.

Crypto AG and the CIA from Greg Miller for the Washington Post
Washington Post

How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

Google maps on a phone
iMore

Department of Homeland Security reportedly using database that tracks millions of smartphone users

DHS sharing with the Census
NPR

To Produce Citizenship Data, Homeland Security To Share Records With Census

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
New York Times Magazine

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

Russian influence Black American voters
The New Yorker

The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests Targeting African-Americans

our Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
New York Times

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

Dark Reading Virtual Event
Dark Reading

The "Typical" Security Engineer: Hiring Myths & Stereotypes

Why do we about privacy
The New Yorker

Why Do We Care So Much about Privacy?

Wil Wheaton is not ashamed of having depression, as is appropriate.
Medium, Wil Wheaton

My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.

homework therapist is a real job
New York Times

Homework Therapists’ Job: Help Solve Math Problems, and Emotional Ones

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label
National Geographic

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label

Cloud data graphic
Engadget

President signs overseas data access bill into law

Laziness does not exist.
Medium, Dr. Erika Price

Laziness Does Not Exist

Get more comfortable with vulnerability (so it’s not quite so scary to share your potatoes).
Medium, Kate McCombs

The Potato Metaphor for Emotional Labor

The shape of slavery over time.
The Pudding

Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration

Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg is also a mystery.
Brennan Center for Justice

What Caused the Crime Decline?

Diversity illustration. Credit: Edel Rodriguez
Scientific American

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

Martin Luther King Jr., a major target of COINTELPRO
Stuff They Don't Want You to Know

What was COINTELPRO?

A Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders by Alex Buono
Alex Buono's website

A Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders

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