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Thursday - June 30, 2016 Thu - 06/30/16
rantnrave:// Sorry for being late today. I was on uncle duty... I've been on a 30 day non-stop curation roll. Going to take a day off here and there (maybe). Enjoy today's lineup. It's friggin' awesome. Exercise and rest over the long weekend (hopefully)... Lunch conversation: Often when technology and media meet, barriers create product features to appease the stupid or afraid... REDEF ORIGINAL - By Obsessing Over The Present, Big Media Has Forgotten Its Past And Endangered Its Future (But It’s Not Too Late): Today's media empires were built through constant reinvention, reinvestment and risk taking. If Big Media wants to thrive in the digital era, it needs to remember its past and move beyond its present. This means reframing priorities, actively pushing audiences online and fully embracing category experimentation. It's not too late, but time is running out... When the nurse can't find a vein. Feel like a voodoo doll... This is big... GAME OF THRONES infographic... Friends doing well: Congrats to SEAN MORAN and JEFF LUCAS... Happy Birthday JOANNA BOMBERG, PETER MASTERSON, NANCY LUBIN, DANNY BIGEL and BILL ROBINSON.
- Jason Hirschhorn, curator
no franks for me
GQ
The Fugitive, His Dead Wife, and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory That Explains Everything
by Evan Hughes
He worked at Ground Zero, but then Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious death of his wife. Now he's found a new life in South America and become a folk hero by telling an amazing story about the World Trade Center attacks.
Marie Claire
Inside an Elite Hamptons Sex Party
by Jenna Sauers
For the first time, London-based ​Killing Kittens brought its upper-class orgy to an exclusive East Hampton estate. Armed with La Perla ​lingerie and an open mind, one writer decided to investigate.
The New York Times
How 'Advantage Players' Game the Casinos
by Michael Kaplan
They’re not cheaters. Instead, theyhone the sharpest (legal) edge they can.
Bloomberg
How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race
by Kim Bhasin
An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity. Workers jog around a manmade cavern plopping items into yellow and black crates. Towering hydraulic arms lift heavy boxes toward the rafters. And an army of stubby orange robots slide along the floor like giant, sentient hockey pucks, piled high with towers of consumer gratification ranging from bestsellers to kitchenware.
The Awl
Reality Hunger
by Brent Cox
How Big Food manufactures authenticity in an artisanal world.
Foreign Policy
It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses
by James Traub
The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.
strategy+business
What Consumers Most Want from Health Insurers' Technology
by Keith Fengler, Jaime Estupiñán and Kenny Chan
People don’t crave the latest fitness wearable. Their overwhelming preference is for simple applications that provide and organize information.
Billboard
Department Of Justice To Deny Consent Decree Amendment
by Ed Christman
The U.S. Department of Justice struck a major blow Wednesday to U.S. music publishers and performance rights organizations.
New Republic
The Foreclosure Sleuth
by David Dayen
How a sports agent uncovered the greatest financial fraud in American history.
Medium
Ghost in the machine: Snapchat isn’t mobile-first — it’s something else entirely
by Ben Basche
t's tempting to think of Snapchat as a part of the app revolution, as one of the shining examples of mobile-first design that has defined our smartphone age.
no burger for me
The Intercept
The Lime Grower Vs The Cartel
by Ryan Devereaux
How a lime grower led an uprising against one of Mexico’s bloodiest drug cartels.
O'Reilly
What is Artificial Intelligence?
by Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica
Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica examine factors that have made AI a hot topic in recent years, today's successful AI systems, and where AI may be headed in the coming years.
Pacific Standard
The Freedom of Information Act--and the Hero Who Pioneered It
by CJ Ciaramella
Celebrating the curious and deeply unpopular political career of John Moss, godfather of the FOIA.
Fast Company
How To Break Open The Web
by Dan Gillmor and Kevin Marks
The Internet's designers and a new generation of hackers are unraveling the knots keeping the web from living up to its original promise.
recode
The rise of self-learning software
by Adit Singh
I predict that in 10 years, every new enterprise application will be self-learning at its core.
Pando
Subscription commerce is dead. (Except when it comes to platforms and digital goods)
by Sarah Lacy
Today, I became a Postmates Unlimited customer. For $10 a month, I get free delivery on all my Postmates orders over $25. In addition my orders are instantly accepted and never "surged." (In Postmates own email it forgot that "blitz pricing" is what it calls it, not surge pricing.)
Notation Capital
Origins - Episode 4 - Notation Capital And Josh Abramson Of TeePublic, Connected Ventures
by Notation Capital and Josh Abramson
Josh Abramson is the co-founder of Connected Ventures (CollegeHumor, BustedTees, Vimeo) as well as TeePublic. In this episode, Josh talks about starting CollegeHumor in his freshman year dorm room in 1999, bootstrapping, building, and ultimately selling the company to IAC with his team in NYC, some of his early angel investments, as well as his experience as an LP in funds like Lowercase Capital, USV, and others.
Mark Ramsey Media
How Millennials Use Radio, Online Radio, Podcasting
by Mark Ramsey
What do 20-somethings think about radio? Online radio? Podcasting? We recruited a special panel of Millennials for hivio 2016. Among the questions: When do you listen to the radio? Online radio? Podcasts? How much of your listening time is devoted to each? Why choose one over the other?
The Washington Post
Researchers have found that war has a remarkable and miraculous effect
by Jeff Guo
Twenty-five years ago, civil war erupted in the coastal African nation of Sierra Leone. Civilians were massacred, mutilated and gang-raped; children were kidnapped and injected with drugs to make them fight. By the end of the conflict, which lasted more than a decade, more than half the population had fled their homes, and some 70,000 people had died, according to U.N. estimates.
Quartz
Living with anxiety in the age of nonstop bad news
by Rosie Spinks
Like a lot of anxious people, I have a tendency to catastrophize. First, I think about all the things that could possibly go wrong. Then I leap straight to the most irrational, worst-case scenario of the options I’ve come up with.
The Verge
The Apple Port Death Chart
by Nilay Patel and Frank Bi
All ports must die (except maybe the one).
The New York Observer
Who Will Make Virtual Reality's Equivalent of 'Serial?'
by Brady Dale
Content will convince the masses to put the opaque goggles on.
MUSIC OF THE DAY
"Juanita/Kiteless"
Underworld
“REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask ‘why?’”
@JasonHirschhorn


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