We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. | | | | | When my President, Jed Bartlett ran the country the right way. The West Wing. 1999–2006. (NBCU/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.”
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| This is especially important right now. Facebook stands for bringing us closer together and building a global community. When we began, this idea was not controversial. Every year, the world got more connected and this was seen as a positive trend. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| Social media has a racism problem because humans have a racism problem. Can one company solve it? | | |
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 | Esquire |
| How broken bones, a broken heart, and a bizarre hunger for agony got the mysterious Swiss chef to the best restaurant in the country. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| There’s a way to mingle with the suits and still keep your soul. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Most people are seeking a very specific form of therapy: Psychoanalysis. | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| Pandora's Glenn People's makes the case that their acquisition of Ticketfly and other initiatives are creating the first full stack music streamer. | | |
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 | TIME |
| Trump's presidency has cheered some and brought crippling stress to others. | | |
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 | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| We like to think of ourselves as a nation of champion swimmers and surfers, but this summer huge numbers of people have been dying in Australian waters. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| Besides bad hair, pleated jeans, and 21 Jump Street, the ‘80s brought us a remarkable technological revolution. Nintendo changed the living room forever with the introduction of the NES in 1985. IBM, Apple, and the Commodore 64 ushered the personal PC into our lives. Even the internet breathed a few gasps of air with NFSNet and the rise of the teen hacker. | | |
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 | Eater |
| With ASMR, it's more about the sound than the taste | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| As the social contract frays, what does it mean to be polite? | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| A chat with the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The company is testing a new Apple TV capable of streaming ultra-high-definition 4K. It may not be enough to take on Amazon and Roku. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Twitter bots, social media influencers and the challenges of fan voting in the digital age: We've come a long way from hanging chads. | | |
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 | Pressthink |
| It's not like reality gives up easily, and lets you roll over it. That's Distortion Field 101. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| How YouTube’s biggest star took a bizarre career turn, and what it tells us about the nascent politics of social platforms. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Time to get familiar with border taxes and trade. We’ll be your guide. | | |
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 | Motherboard |
| How millions of old CRT televisions have wound up abandoned in warehouses all over the country. | | |
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 | Tube Filter |
| Engineers at Google authored a paper about YouTube's algorithm. Here's what it's all about and what secrets it may have revealed. | | |
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 | Pacific Standard |
| The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses. | | |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
| The Craigslist founder has given to Wikipedia and Poynter, with more to come: "I do think a trustworthy press is mission critical for any democracy." | | |
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 | Falkvinge on Infopolicy |
| The copyright industry knows that enforcement of copyright is incompatible with privacy and freedom of expression, and works consistently to curtail them. | | |
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