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My picks for #sundayread for November 11, 2018:

• Vote 2018: Alabama general election results
  #alpolitics
• Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?
  By Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
• When Staying in the Trump Administration Is Worse Than Leaving It
  By Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen
• Flashback: Video everywhere, including Facebook page headers
• From 1916: Trans-national America
  By Randolph S. Bourne
• Oral History (of sorts) of Weird Twitter
  Compiled by @JWHerrman and @KatieNotopoulos
• Flashback: Which video strategy is right for your company?
• Can we teach robots ethics?
  By @DavidEdmonds100
• My 14-Hour Search for the End of @ TGIFridays’ Endless Appetizers
  By @CaityWeaver
• Flashback: Focused communication: Working with subordinates, peers and bosses
• Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
  By Colin Morris @HalfEatenScone
  (RT @zmijutin)
• U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.
  By @JanetReitman
• How Congress allied with drug company lobbyists to derail the DEA’s @DEAHQ war on opioids
  By @ScottHigham1 and @LennyMBernstein
• Why English is such a great language for puns
  From @TheEconomist
  (RT @WuestefeldDoyle)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Earth probably first
• Vote 2018: The stormy midterms have arrived

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for November 11 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 4, 2018:

• Flashback: 10 years ago, the Vote 2008 Election Night live blog, with @JenBarnett and @ChrisOzDavis
  #alpolitics
• America’s Next Civil War
  By @StephenMarche
• Death at a Penn State Fraternity
  By Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific
• Flashback: LinkedIn for Nonprofits, a free program you’ll love
• Chef/TV host Samin Nosrat @CiaoSamin Is a New Kind of Domestic Goddess
  By Madeleine Aggeler @mmaggeler
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• #MeToo and the era of asshole white guy TV protagonists
  By Todd VanDerWerff @tvoti
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Evergreen content, promos that last (nearly) forever
• “As Long as It’s Healthy,” an excerpt from “Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump’s America”
  By Sarah Michael Hollenbeck
• In the gardens of olives
  By Helen Rosner @hels
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 11
  #haiku #poetry
• How Julia Louis-Dreyfus @OfficialJLD quietly became the most successful sitcom star ever
  By @GeoffEdgers
• Non-Essential Oils
  By Rachel Monroe @rachmonroe
• Unprotected: American charity claimed to protect vulnerable Liberian girls from sexual exploitation. Instead, the girls were raped.
  By @Fin_Young
• Crossville, an immigrant oasis flourishing in red state Alabama
  By Andrew @DesiderioDC

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: All dressed up
• Happy Halloween!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for November 4 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: A “Jimmy Kimmel Live” holiday tradition, the 7th annual
I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy
YouTube challenge

Happy Halloween! Protect your candy at all costs …

Photo: Rod Waddington (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for October 28, 2018:

• Flashback: 10 years ago, Mary Buckelew was the fourth Jefferson County commissioner convicted over the sewer scandal.
  #bham
• California’s changing fire country: How can communities survive the wildfire age?
  By @Susie_C agle
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• After a near-fatal brush with Lyme disease, @AvrilLavigne is skateboarding for Jesus now
  By Anna Peele @bananapeele
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Alabama newspapers endorse @BarackObama by 2-1 margin
• #ThisIs18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes
  By @NYTimes staff
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• 100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It
  By @Gizmodo staff
• Flashback: Better communication through Facebook groups for business
• My Great-Grandfather the Bundist
  By @MollyCrabapple
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger
  By @AdamSerwer
  (via @kerthan)
• Flashback: Do you need courage to write?
  A pair of interviews with the new Doctor, Jodie Whittaker:
  — From @MoRyan: https://buff.ly/2y6z49H
  — From Devon Ivie @devonsaysrelax: https://buff.ly/2yywAAj
• The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail
  By @DanBarryNYT and @JeffreyESinger
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Denying a Diagnosis: Can we treat patients with mental illness and preserve civil liberties?
  By @RachelAviv
• Queens of Infamy: The Reign of Catherine de’ Medici
  By @Anne_Theriault
  (via @SundayLongRead)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Living history

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 28 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 21, 2018:

• • Vote 2018: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County general election
    #alpolitics #bham
  • A Field Guide to Bad Faith Arguments
    By @AaronHuertas
  • Over the years, shoppers have found notes in retail goods supposedly written by Chinese prisoners. Pleas for help or activist stunts?
    By @RossalynWarren
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Flashback: 61 ways I’ve used blogging
  • When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men
    By Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Feminists Share What Comes Next for the #MeToo Movement
    By @MoiraDonegan
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Flashback: When compliments go wrong, part 2
  • “The South got something to say”: 20th anniversary of @OutKast’s “Aquemini,” blueprint of the Southern black renaissance
    By David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS
    (h/t @afraidofthebear)
  • Do You Believe in Sharing? On “The Tragedy of the Commons” and modern environmental management
    By @TimHarford
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Flashback: 5 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 29
  • The Anti-Prestige Showrunner: @CWJaneTheVirgin creator @JennieUrman
    By Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren
  • The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System
    By @EthanWatters1
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Protesters blasting punitive prosecutors, police brutality upended Chicago’s political status quo
    By @MsKellyMHayes
    (via @ethanbrown72)
  • .@ToddBol, 62, creator of the Little Free Library movement, died Thursday. From one little box, a big idea that spread to 75K+ boxes in 88 countries.
    By Jenna Ross @ByJenna

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The rides of October

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 21 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 14, 2018:

• Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 47
  #poetry
• Information terrorists have weaponized social media, blogs, videos and other digital channels
  By @MollyMcKew
• SMASH THE 1 PERCENT!!!
  By @DavidBarstow, @SusanneCraig and @RussBuettner
• Flashback: What’s the next big social media network?
• King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial and Inbred
  By @KerThan
  (RT @LiekeMuller)
• A Loaded Gun: Amy Bishop and the 2010 mass shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
  By @PRaddenKeefe
• Flashback: From 2013, marking Wade on Birmingham’s eighth anniversary
• Smart contracts for the music industry
  By @ImogenHeap
• What Makes @NBCTheGoodPlace So Good?
  By Sam Anderson @shamblanderson
• Flashback: Comfortable language
• The Year the Networks Finally Embraced Diversity
  By @KateAurthur
• China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies
  By Jordan Robertson @jordanr1000 and @MichaelRileyDC
  (via @ShiraOvide @thomaspower)
• Diary of a Do-Gooder: The anonymous tasks of everyday activism
  By @SaraEckel
  (via @saribotton)
• Pa’s Punny Punchline: The Dad Jokes Phenomenon
  By @AshleyFetters

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Sharp objects

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 14 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 7, 2018:

• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Building a mythology through storytelling
• .@BritishGQ asked 12 mass killers: “What would have stopped you?”
  By @AlHannaford
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Inside Britain’s meme factory
  By @SimonParkin
• Flashback: Raised on radio
• Excerpt on Cuban trafficking from “Baseball Cop: The Dark Side of America’s National Pastime”
  By Ed Dominguez @Dominged
  (via @sundaylongread)
• A hospital inundated with a hurricane and flooding. Limited room on rescue choppers. Who do you save?
  By @SheriFink
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Weird but fun places to blog
• “Fame proved toxic for the relationship”: When comedy duos split up
  By @SimonParkin
• Reading Thrills from @RoughTradeBooks
  By @Benson_Louise
• Flashback: Why hashtags still matter
• .evila si luaP
  By Chris Heath
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Where in the World Is @Google chief Larry Page?
  By Mark Bergen @mhbergen and @AustinCarr
  As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind
  By @Michele_Norris
• I Quit My Job to Pursue My Passion — and My Life Fell Apart.
  By Darcy Stewart

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Taxing steel, burning rubber

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 7 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 30, 2018:

• After trying time and again to read Tim Ferriss’ @tferriss “The 4-Hour Chef,” I listened to the abridged audiobook instead. It really did the trick, and now I can’t wait to flip through the pages.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2OioMwr
• A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
  By @AnneApplebaum
  (via @sundaylongread)
• 2 White Moms. 6 Black Kids. 1 Unthinkable Tragedy. Inside the “Perfect” Hart Family.
  By @LaurenSmiley
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Birmingham Museum of Art displays da Vinci drawings
• Disaster in the Alps
  By Lane Wallace
  (via @sundaylongread)
• A little ditty ’bout Steve and Michelle …
  By @MegMcConahey
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: One year ago, a new mayor ascends in Birmingham
• Our family’s whites-only motel in Florida and culture shock
  By Scott Korb
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Printed World in Peril
  By Will Self @wself
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: In the beginning: Revisiting blog posts for fun and profit
• .@LadyGaga Opens Up About “A Star Is Born” @starisbornmovie, #MeToo and a Decade in Pop
  By @JonnyVanMeter
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Fidget spinners, weighted blankets and the rise of anxiety consumerism
  By Rebecca Jennings @rebexxxxa
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Mark Zuckerberg apologizes again, swears this time he’ll make Facebook less destructive to society
  By Evan Osnos @eosnos
  (via @sundaylongread)
• How Poetry Came to Matter Again
  By Jesse Lichtenstein @jgl541
  (via @sundaylongread)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The kayfabe harvest

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 30 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 23, 2018:

• I read “21 Days to Resilience” by @Dr_Zelana_ Montminy, found it too broad to be helpful but maybe others can work the plan provided.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2I2XTqN
• Death on the Dakota Access Pipeline
  By @AntoniaJuhasz
  (via @sundaylongread)
• America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare: Mob Rule
  By @RosenJeffrey
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Building a community on the cheap with @GooglePlus
• Oral History of “Taxi” on its 40th anniversary
  Compiled by Marc Freeman @Loudon47
• The Age of Primal Rage: A Spreading Global Epidemic of Violence, Hate and Fear
  By @UmairH aque
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, VP Cheney stumped for GOP candidates at a Huntsville fund-raiser
• How @MayaRudolph Became the Master of Impressions
  By @CaityWeaver
• The girls of summer: Talking with players on all-female baseball teams
  By Britni de la Cretaz @britnidlc
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 5 years ago, @RubenStuddard began competing on a second reality TV show
  #bham
• Oral History of “Frasier” on its 25th anniversary
  Compiled by Marc Freeman @Loudon47
• Inside the “suicide belt” of mountain towns
  By @KateSiber
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Stripped: The Search for Human Rights in American Women’s Prisons
  By @AdamSkolnick
• Finally, a cure for insomnia?
  By @SimonParkin
  (via @sundaylongread)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Blazer film festival 2018

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 23 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 16, 2018:

• Listening to Anthony @Bourdain narrate his 2010 book “Medium Raw” was poignant and painful, enlightening and dark.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2xheyCM
• You’re mothering wrong.
  By Kim Brooks @KA_Brooks
  (via @Wes_Andrews)
• Our relationship with guns — it’s complicated
  By @ElainaPlott
  (via @bshelburne)
• Flashback: Communicating intent in customer service
• Vivienne Ming @neuraltheory: “The professional class is about to be blindsided by AI”
  By @RanaForoohar
  (via @FelixLecorre @EvyCoul)
• The Real Heroes Are Dead
  By @JamesStewartNYT
• Flashback: Start with your audience
• “Ex Libris: The New York Public Library,” a 3.5-hour doc on the ins and outs of a beloved institution
  By Frederick Wiseman @ZipporahFilms
• Cary Fukunaga Doesn’t Mind Taking Notes from Netflix’s Algorithm
  By @ZachBaron
  (via @emilynussbaum)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The story of a city continues
  #bham
• The 50 Saddest Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
  By @JoshJackson and the @PasteMagazine staff
• The Teachers’ Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma
  By Rivka Galchen
  (via @SeanMcElwee)
• The Green Green Grass of Utah: The fight over water in the West
  By @SundeenMark
  (h/t @anthgarrett)
• Chart: A Writer’s Hierarchy of Needs
  By Grant Snider @grantdraws
  (h/t @susancain)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Bouncing off the walls

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 16 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 9, 2018:

• “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” by Roxane Gay @rgay broke my heart into a thousand pieces. A challenging but rewarding read.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2NYZGiN
• Crowdsourcing science and the new environmental resistance
  By @EmmalinaG linskis
  (via @participedia)
• Mississippi casinos reap huge rewards of legalized sports betting on SEC football
  By @RossDellenger
• Flashback: Exercises for keeping writing skills sharp
• Unlocking the ancient code: Advances in the study of prehistoric DNA
  By Peter Forbes
• Are CEOs Less Ethical Than in the Past?
  By Per-Ola Karlsson, @AguirreDeAnne and @KristinDRivera
  (via @TheBusinessTN)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Connecting with Deb Krier
• How India’s high-quality, low-cost model can save American health care
  By Vijay Govindarajan @vgovindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti
  (via @Padham_trust)
• How @BootsRiley Infiltrated Hollywood
  By @JonahWeiner
• Flashback: LinkedIn, how I have missed you (and misused you)
• Profile of “Atlanta” star Lakeith Stanfield @lakeithlakeith
  By Cara Buckley @caraNYT
• An Indian Trump: The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise
  By @RobertFWorth
  (via @VHSwaala)
• “Native women have long been considered invisible and disposable in society, and those vulnerabilities attract predators.”
  By Sharon Cohen
• New York Public Library @nypl publishes “Insta Novels” for Instagram readers
  By @Cara_Curtis
  (via @themediaisdying)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: All smiles on Labor Day
• Happy Labor Day!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 9 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Celebrate the holiday by gazing in awe
at these amazing workers.

Happy Labor Day!

Photo: Ben P L (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for September 2, 2018:

• I read the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing decades of sexual abuses by Catholic priests and cover-ups. You should, too, though fair warning, it’s a stomach-churning indictment of a longtime holy criminal conspiracy.
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2PXr3es
• Say, isn’t it time to merge our three regional power grids into one national grid?
  By David Roberts @drvox
  (via @StuckeyStop)
• How the Internet transformed into the Matrix
  By Thomas Lemaigre
• Flashback: Tweet tweet! Live-tweeting with style and substance
• An Alternative to Complaining on the Job
  By @PeterBregman
  (via @platyppines)
• Successful People Tell Themselves These 7 Things on a Daily Basis
  By @NicolasCole77
  (via @ZeamoFitness)
• Flashback: Slides from Y’all Connect 2017
• Why Netflix Dramas Sag Midseason — and How They’re Fixing It
  By Alan @Sepinwall
• The “Nanette” problem: Did comedian @HannahGadsby let the audience off the hook too easily?
  By Peter Moskowitz @ptrmsk
• Flashback: From a year ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 43
• Oral history of the iconic “Living Single” on its 25th anniversary
  Compiled by Hannah Giorgis @ethiopienne
• An important political lesson: Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
  By Christopher Douglas @crddouglas
  (via @C_Stroop)
• Where some black South Africans see a history of oppression, Nigerians see opportunity.
  By @ChibunduOnuzo
  (via @yorm_a)
• Buddy, the Library Isn’t a 7-Eleven: A running tally of items people have asked for at the circulation desk
  By @Kristen_Arnett

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Take to the sea lion!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 2 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 26, 2018:

• Flashback: How to manage the Twitter fire hose of information and noise
• “Why Are Developers Only Building Luxury Housing?” … On the struggles for affordable housing
  By Daniel Herriges
  (via @ForgedByFusion)
• The need for ethics education integrated into technology training
  By @MikeLoukides, Hilary Mason @hmason and DJ Patil @dpatil
  (via @mikkoviitaila)
• Flashback: Birmingham election results from 5 years ago and 1 year ago.
  Note the ascendant Randall Woodfin …
  #bham #alpolitics
• What happens when a robot kills someone?
  By Zachary Crockett @zzcrockett
  (via @RajBhandariDFW)
• The only Indian in Cirque du Soleil’s new show “Bazzar” performs Mallakhamb, an aerial yoga practice
  By Tariq Engineer @TariqeMIRROR
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The redundancy questionnaire
• India wrestles with skyrocketing lifestyle diseases. Will people change their eating habits for the better?
  By @SwetaDutta27 and Tariq Engineer @TariqeMIRROR
• Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best
  By Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum
  (via @LiekeMuller)
• Flashback: The digital revolutions
• The Genesis of a Perpetual Crisis in the Bollywood Film Industry
  By @AmitKhanna
• Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism: Q&A with economist @EricRWeinstein
  By @SeanIlling
  (via @SeanMackieSM)
• The Abortions We Don’t Talk About: Six @Slate Women Tell Their Stories.
  (via @LytleRuth)
• How the English language conquered Earth
  By Jacob Mikanowski @JMikanowski
  (via @talibambu)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Down home hospitality

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 26 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 19, 2018:

• Flashback: Why consistency matters most in successful communication
• .@Time Magazine’s special issue on the South
• The Guardians Con Game: How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
  By @RachelAviv
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The post-conference high has passed
• Philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt on what freedom and revolution really mean
• The Mind of John McPhee
  By Sam Anderson @shamblanderson
• Flashback: 1 year ago, Alabama picks its nominees for an open Senate seat: Doug Jones and Roy Moore
  #alpolitics
• When Werner Herzog Was My Dad: Of Post-Natal Visions and Other Wonders
  By Rachel Yoder @yoderama
• Excerpt from “My Life As a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture” by @GuyBranum on pop culture’s destructive depictions of the humanity of fat people.
• Flashback: Auto-play videos are (still) ruining websites
• The Ringer’s 100 Best TV Episodes of This Century
• The female price of male pleasure
  By Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer
• How to Fight Voter Suppression in 2018
  By Edward Burmila @gin_and_tacos
• Roxane Gay @rgay on writing, her painful childhood and more, from PBS’ “Breaking Big”

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Muscles, motors and moves

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 19 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me