The best end-of-the-year list you can treat yourself to. So many good – not marginally good, truly good – developments that are happening across the globe.

«What so many black women know is what I learned as I sat at the end of a hallway with a dead baby in my arms.» As a white man, I’m used to being treated with respect or at least some basic decency in most encounters in life. It’s often hard to imagine how it could be different, because why would it? Systemic inequality tends to obscure itself to those who are not affected. That’s why pieces like this personal account from writer Tressie McMillan Cottom are so important. If you’d like to read more from her, I recommend reading her book «Thick», of which this piece is an excerpt.

I try not to recommend things that everyone has seen already and this probably is one of those pieces. It’s so great, though, that I just want to make sure you’re not missing it. Scrolling has rarely been more exciting: The Deep Sea. Know it already? Have you seen some of the other cool projects Neal Agarwal has built? I particularly like the Baby Map, The Size of Space, and, on a lighter note, Share This Page.

Hong Kong’s newspaper of record, the South China Morning Post, is doing some fantastic visual journalism on the protests. They combine graphics and images with their trademark illustration style to convey information with just the right amount of emotion. Stunning.

«Blue pill or red pill / List of side effects / Coming hot» – Maps have never been more poetic. Pick any place on earth and this wonderful application creates a location aware haiku on the fly. Highly addictive.