• Facing life: Eight people discuss life after incarceration in this beautifully simple, extremely touching project from Pen and Brandon.
• New York Times is killing it with clear interactives at the moment—here’s one about the soundtrack to the AIDS crisis: I was sold as soon as they showed me a bunch of pictures of mixtapes.
• How police interfere with public spaces.
• I get the ethical stance of Ogilvy saying it won’t work with influencers who digitally edit or filter their images any more. But it’s always weird for an advertising firm to get on its high horse. Nor does it seem they have a stance on other forms of image manipulation. Makeup? Wigs? Cosmetic surgery?
• Talking of confusing ethics: the monk helping the Vatican take on AI.