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Elecciones 2020: el Partido Republicano postula a Trump y el demócrata Biden aún lleva la ventaja

Biden Condemned Violence. Why Won’t Trump?

Trump Defends Kyle Rittenhouse

A Long History of Language That Incites and Demonizes

Unwitting Progressives for Trump

Reinvent Technology Partners, a new SPAC formed by Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and hedge fund manager Michael Thompson, have filed for a $600M IPO (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes (New York Times)

Facebook Could Block Sharing of News Stories in Australia

Frustrated by Election Boycott, Venezuela’s Leader Pardons 100 Opponents

A Teacher and Congresswoman Confronts School Reopenings

Trump Fans Strife as Unrest Roils the U.S.

A series of primaries in Massachusetts could be a bellwether for the Democratic Party.

American Intelligence Knows What Russia Is Doing

Twitter now shows quote tweet counts directly under tweets, rebranding "Retweets with comments" as "Quote Tweets" (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

How to Help Someone Who Lost Their Job

Think You’re Making Good Climate Choices? Take This Mini-Quiz

I’m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can’t Defend Him.

Portland Shooting Amplifies Tensions in Presidential Race

Trump, Vicar of Fear and Violence

Jon Rahm Sinks a Big Putt to Win Playoff at the BMW Championship

Profile of cloud database company Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman, hired sixteen months ago, as he takes his third startup public (CNBC)

Stories of 2020: Five Lives Caught in a Year of Upheaval and Pain

Deadly Shooting in Portland After Pro-Trump Ralliers Clash With Protesters

Cory Doctorow highlights the conceptual limitations of Shoshana Zuboff's "surveillance capitalism" and details how to dismantle it (Cory Doctorow/OneZero )

Slack discloses a now fixed critical RCE flaw in its desktop app; Slack paid $1,750 bug bounty to researcher, which critics say is a paltry sum for such a bug (Jack Morse/Mashable)

NOW TV price warning: Last chance to get access to Sky channels before price rise kicks in

Shinzo Abe Is Ill. But Is That the Only Reason He’s Quitting?

With a Wary Eye on China, Taiwan Moves to Revamp Its Military

Construction of a $20B chip manufacturing plant in Wuhan stopped due to lack of funding, the latest example of China's semiconductor efforts failing to take off (South China Morning Post)

Virus Update

How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 (Dara Kerr/CNET)

Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has "several hundred thousand" paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again (Ev Williams/The Official Medium Blog)

Amid Tennis’s Swirling Storms, a Stubborn Djokovic Claims a Title

How to Build a Catapult From Newspaper

Phoenix Settles With Black Family After Police Drew Guns Over Reported Doll Theft

‘It Was Challenging’: Bucks Return, Balancing Basketball and Activism

Coronavirus Around the World