Going to be in Matera, Italy on July 12 perchance?

Button Coral
(Cynarina lacrymalis)

• I Pine for Happy Joe’s Taco Pizza, the Culinary Relic of My Iowa Youth
  I agree with every word in this article. Love the Taco Joe!
• Romeo and Juliet recited in its original accent
  When the language pot melts.
• Children of the Windrush Generation: The pioneering DJs who paved the way for UK dance music
  This is an exceptional story.
• If you're the smartest person in the room, you're probably not a good leader
  💯
• Flopstarter | A platform for bad ideas
  Waiting for the #notallflopstarters hash.
• Our data is valuable. Here's how we can take that value back
  We must challenge the current narrative dominated by Silicon Valley’s leaky surveillance capitalism and dystopian models such as China’s social credit system. A New Deal on data, based on a rights-based, people-centric framework, which does not exploit personal data to pay for critical infrastructure, is long overdue.
• English professors' fascination with monster children in movies turns into career
  This headline is my life story in an alternate timeline.
• Hacker Typer
  For mindless computating.
• Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance
  Observability vs. surveillance.
• Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual
  This is the problem: blockchain-based systems are thermodynamically unsustainable.