In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. |
| | | | | Sterling Hayden as 'Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper' in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) | | | | | |  | “In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
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| rantnrave:// New media reality: If you're trying to speak with those that disagree with your views, they're likely somewhere else. #personalization... Trump's bad week means nothing. Supporters don't care, they hate the media. He still walks over anyone that interviews him and they take it. GOP in shambles... The time music publishing companies wanted to be paid for each copy of the song file on AKAMAI's EDGE. Digital music memories... Singing THE KILLERS at an Irish wake... The greatest thing ever: making mini-donuts... Can anyone in LA come over and help me get the comforter into the duvet? This is really frustrating... Seeds of startup failure: same mistakes, publish without care, improve and revert back, work on the easy... Happy Birthday to ADAM JONES, CAROLINE MARKS, ALLY BERNSTEIN, HUGO LINDGREN and MARTIN NISENHOLTZ. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | PrimeMind |
| Nobody knows what makes us who we are. A risky surgery planned for 2017 may give us the answer. | | |
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 | HuffPost Highline |
| One evening in the late summer of 2015, Lisa Schwartz was watching television at her Vermont home when an ad for a sleeping pill called Belsomra appeared on the screen. | | |
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 | Benedict Evans |
| Chat bots tap into two very current preoccupations. On one hand, the hope that they can actually work is a reflection of the ongoing explosion of AI, and on the other, they offer a way to reach users without having to get them to install an app. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| David Lowery is feeling positive, three months after he flung the cat into the music-streaming pigeons with a class-action lawsuit against Spotify. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| The story of Bill May, the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his improbable quest for Olympic gold. | | |
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 | Edge |
| A Conversation With George Church. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| One of the first things fashion designer Tomas Maier produced when he started his own label 19 years ago was a bikini. It was a natural choice. The line focused on "time off"-something very much on Maier's mind after 20 years with the punishing travel schedule of an in-demand freelance designer. | | |
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 | NOVA |
| In 2004, the British chemist Chris Dobson speculated that there might be a universal elixir out there that could combat not just alpha-synuclein for Parkinson's but the amyloids caused by many protein-misfolding diseases at once. Remarkably, in that same year an Israeli scientist named Beka Solomon discovered an unlikely candidate for this elixir, a naturally occurring microorganism called a phage. | | |
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 | The Paris Review |
| The linguist discusses how technology shapes culture and culture shapes words. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| On Tuesday (Mar. 29), the "Times" reporter Rukmini Callimachi published the latest in a series of blockbuster stories about the inner workings of the Islamic State. The piece focussed on the logistics of the group's deployment of terrorists in Europe, but also included a significant revelation in an ongoing debate about encryption. | | |
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 | Salon |
| On this year's Grammy Awards, the surviving members of the Eagles joined up with Jackson Browne to perform "Take It Easy" in honor of Glenn Frey, who passed away in mid-January. In the aftermath of the tribute appearance, Eagles drummer/co-vocalist/co-founder Don Henley told BBC Radio 2 the performance was "very difficult and very emotional," and added, "That was the final farewell. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Earlier this week, after a complicated debate involving feminism, internet culture, harassment, and herpes, a new website script appeared. The goal of Genius Defender is to allow certain website owners to block the annotation website Genius from being able to access and annotate their content. | | |
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 | Chicago Reader |
| When I think back on my childhood, what first comes to mind are buildings that no one seems to care about. My mom would drive up and down Lake Shore Drive, ferrying me to the few places I went when I wasn't home. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| A startup finds that asking for certain data improves the fit of its clothes - and lands the company in a cultural minefield. In 2008, an entrepreneur named Seph Skerritt was frustrated with the way he shopped for clothes. Then a student at MIT's Sloan School of Management, he chafed at the time wasted while trying on garments in stores. | | |
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 | Verso Books |
| Chuang is a collective of communists who consider the "China question" to be of central relevance to the contradictions of the world's economic system and the potentials for its overcoming. Our goal is to formulate a body of clear-headed theory capable of understanding contemporary China and its potential trajectories. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Of all the things that could distinguish the four teams remaining in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament -- record, size, talent, experience -- one factor may be undervalued: penmanship. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| Bridget Williams is no stranger to the race to amass large audiences in media. She was a top executive at Business Insider from 2009 to 2013 during that site's meteoric audience expansion. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| When you listen to poor people who work with their hands, you hear a uniform frustration and a constant anxiety -- but it’s not just about economic issues. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| Murderers like Charles Manson and Ted Bundy are a tiny threat to our society – yet our interest in them appears to be endless. Why? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| While these workshops are a gateway for those hoping to secure a coveted role (with "students" landing jobs everywhere from ABC to Hulu), critics say they flout a law that no one enforces: "It's so easy to exploit" actors, says casting director Billy DaMota. | | |
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