Twitter is rolling out its new verification program, with revamped categories that include activists and journalists, and previews upcoming changes to profiles [TechMeme]
What’s (still) going on. Marvin Gaye’s 50-year-old masterpiece What’s Going On is filled with rage against the injustices faced by Black Americans that sadly have not changed much in the last five decades. But as Vanderbilt professor Emily Lordi writes in the Guardian, the album was also “for his own people in his own time.” Songs like “What’s Happening Brother?” checked “the claims of those in power against the authority of everyday Black people” by drawing from Gaye’s personal experiences and those of the people close to him. —Hasit Shah, news editor [Quartz]
Tracking the world’s largest iceberg [Recode]
What happens when computers can literally do everything? [TheNextWeb]
5 Recipes That Got Us Through Another Week - Gooey croque madames, tahina-spiked shakes, and a rhubarb upside-down cake because, well, spring [Eater]
A Sudden Surge of Vaccinated Patrons Is Forcing Businesses to Get Creative [Inc.]
How to advocate for a flexible work arrangement [Fast Company]
Get vaccinated from COVID-19 so you can move forward [Medium]
Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein Applied the Concept of 'No Time' to Boost Their Creativity. What Does It Entail? [Entrepreneur]
Does Apple Put Greed Before Gamers? Tim Cook Takes the Stand [WIRED]
TWiT+ 52 [TWIT]
The Memes That Made Us - The origin story of “one nation, indivisible.” [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Inside star cities [Astronomy magazine]

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