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  Sep 11, 2019
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  LA to tap tech to wipe out up to 50,000 old pot convictions

  Associated Press

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions years after California voters broadly legalized the drug. The county is working with the Code for America nonprofit tech …

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  How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco

  WIRED - Daniel Duane

  Huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar. Then it …

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  Researchers Studied 160 Million Memes and Found Most of Them Come From Two Websites

  VICE - Samantha Cole

  A study of hundreds of millions of images from Reddit, 4chan, Gab, and Twitter reveals how memes spread. Researchers at University College London developed a new way to measure how memes are made and spread. What they found won’t surprise anyone who’s peered into the darker parts of the internet in …

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  The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance

  The New Yorker - Emily Witt

  Three new books suggest that these drugs did not have the power to rewrite society, but, instead, brought on revelations concerning earthly themes. In 1960, Allen Ginsberg wrote a letter to Timothy Leary, then a professor at Harvard. Leary had invited the poet to Cambridge to participate in his …

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  The Lil Tay Saga Reaches Its Logical Conclusion

  The Atlantic - Taylor Lorenz

  In mid-February, a mysterious 9-year-old by the name of Lil Tay began blowing up on Instagram. “This is a message to all y’all broke-ass haters, y’all ain't doing it like Lil Tay,” she shouts as she hops into a red Mercedes, hands full of wads of cash. “This is why all y’all fucking haters hate me, …