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Diane Lane in "Rumble Fish" (1983) (Universal Pictures)
Saturday - March 19, 2016 Sat - 03/19/16
 
 
rantnrave:// I think too much. Way too much. As they say: "an idle mind is the devil's playground." Well, sometimes an active mind is just as terrible. Especially at bedtime. My head just swirls with a random mix of work, life and imagination. Like a DALI painting and a long range plan in a blender. It's driven me my whole life but comes at a cost. My friend FRED WILSON also has an active (and smarter) mind. Sometimes he tosses and turns. But he suggests writing it down to calm the seas. Going to think about that as a solution. Oops, see what I did there? Too much thinking... Jury sides with HULK HOGAN in GAWKER case. Protecting the disgusting, cruel, mean, unethical and immoral comes with the good stuff. That's how it works, right? Like biting into a bay leaf in a really good stew. Thoughts here and here?... I love to travel and travel well. But sometimes the room service bills make me feel like a schmuck. And I'm a breakfast for dinner guy. So if they don't do that, I won't stay there again... Were you a "weed MACGYVER?"... ALI G and TRUMP and "Errors, Exaggerations and Flat-out Falsehoods"... Happy Birthday to JON STEINBERG, VIPIN GOYAL and PADDY COSGRAVE.
- Jason Hirschhorn, curator
little charlie's
WSJ
When Machines Think and Feel
by David Gelernter
Artificial intelligence is breathing down our necks: Software built by Google startled the field last week by easily defeating the world's best player of the Asian board game Go in a five-game match. Go resembles chess in the deep, complex problems it poses but is even harder to play and has resisted AI researchers longer.
The Washington Post
The great unsettling
by David Maraniss and Robert Samuels
What's happening in America? What does it mean to be an American? These are questions defining a campaign unlike any other. For nearly 35 days, we crossed the nation looking for answers. This is what we found. So much anger out there in America.
Financial Times
The CIA’s black sites
by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black
Photographer Edmund Clark and journalist Crofton Black on the CIA’s covert detention facilities
Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose Interviews A. O. Scott, New York Times chief film critic and author of “Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.
by A.O. Scott and Charlie Rose
HuffPost Highline
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream
by Kathryn Joyce
The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America's national parks and forests.
Variety
Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Charges Fly in TV Distribution Fights
by Cynthia Littleton
Is it a new frontier in the fight for racial equality or a below-the-belt effort to gain advantage in business negotiations? TV carriage brawls between programmers and distributors have long produced heated rhetoric when battles go public.
The New York Times
No, Not Trump, Not Ever
by David Brooks
The voters have spoken. In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump as their nominee. And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it. Voters are rarely wise but are usually sensible. They understand their own problems. And so deference is generally paid to the candidate who wins.
BuzzFeed
Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape
by Katie J.M. Baker
Can the campus anti-rape movement trickle down to middle and high schools, where students are much more vulnerable?
Backchannel
What Have They Been Smoking at Apple Music?
by Steven Levy
The company’s streaming service as well as its entertainment software has come under fire. But the saving grace is its artisanal playlists.
Narratively
Portrait of an Artist in an Endless War
by Paulien Bakker
After her father is murdered and ISIS rampages her hometown, a 22-year-old art student tries desperately to pick up the pieces.
vincent's
TechCrunch
Life, by subscription
by Nik Milanovic
The American dream is no longer for sale -- but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and operated, with massive implications. On an average day, you may wake up, shower, dress, drive to work and return home.
The Daily Beast
Meet the Black Blues Musician Who Befriended the KKK
by Jen Yamato
Daryl Davis, the subject of the controversial documentary ‘Accidental Courtesy,’ opens up about why he’s spent thirty-plus years getting chummy with members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Atlantic
The Best Magazine on the Early Web
by Anna Wiener
A glance back at a time before Chartbeat.
Lefsetz Letter
Lefsetz on Founders
by Bob Lefsetz
Founders don't take no for an answer. But when their product is in the marketplace to no acclaim, to little adoption, they pivot. He who is invested in the present will get lost in the future. Founders remember when they were broke, what it took to gain traction, managers can do only thus.
Street Fight Magazine
Can LifePosts' Digital Obits Provide Clues for Sustainable Local Publishing?
by Tom Grubisich
Obituaries of local folks were a staple of print newspapers. Dad in his easy chair was the principle reader. He would alert Mom to a singular summing up, which might prompt a moment of fond remembrance, or the opposite, during table talk at the family dinner.
Medium
From Disco to Daft Punk: Giorgio Moroder's Neverending Story
by David Ma
The trailblazing producer looks back at an iconic 50-year career.
Foreign Policy
Too Big to Sanction
by Todd Williamson
How the internationalization of China’s currency hurts Washington’s ability to punish human rights violators.
Priceonomics
How The Cordon Bleu Lent Its Name to the Exploitation of Young Chefs
by Alex Mayyasi
You've probably heard of the Cordon Bleu. The Cordon Bleu is the cooking school in Paris-now expanded to over 50 schools around the world-where Julia Child learned "the art of French cooking." Its name is synonymous with all things fancy, French, and food.
LinkedIn
Adblocking: effect, cause, resolution?
by Rob Norman
I can't see you, so you can't see me. Adblocking has alarmed both publishers and advertisers. For the former it means that total impressions served are not reflected in the amount of ad inventory available for sale. For the latter, the cost takes the form of lost potential reach rather than a direct financial penalty.
Vice
This Ex-Con Is Trying to Save British Gangsters from Spanish Prison
by Ben Bryant
Marbella isn't the place it used to be. The criminal caliphate of the 1980s has receded in public memory, overshadowed by a kind of carnal Hunger Games where primped teenagers buzzed on jello shots wrestle each other for pole position in the mamading line.
MUSIC OF THE DAY
"Stand!"
Sly & The Family Stone
 
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