How Facebook "listens" to you without you knowing
There's a really interesting podcast from Reply All about how Facebook "listens" to you without your consent. But don't get your pitchforks out yet. You actually have, in a weird way, given consent. But how Facebook "listens" to you isn't really through your cellphone's microphone (as it has been widely reported -- and debunked), but through your location history, your search preferences, and something called the Facebook Pixel.
Reply All's parent company Gimlet Media has a page set up with instructions on how not to be tracked by Facebook.
How Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps to make the internet secure
This is so fascinating.
Gun Violence Archive keeps track of gun deaths in the US
Holy shit man. Over 13,000 deaths due to gun violence in the United States in this year alone.