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"The Goonies" (1985) (Warner Bros.)
Saturday - July 02, 2016 Sat - 07/02/16
rantnrave:// I missed the news about the TESLA accident until my friend HAYES gave me an update at dinner. New technologies breed wonder and progress but with those innovations comes risk. No matter how advanced, no technology is totally safe. Traffic deaths are way up in the U.S. and I imagine globally. My hope is that this will lead to learning and the promise of autonomous driving lives up to its potential. Pooling driving data globally can help optimize and refine decisions autonomous cars make leading to the near elimination of accidents. And we're talking updating every second given global connectivity of drivers in the future. The same way WAZE has made navigation easier and faster I hope autonomous cars make it safer to drive. Other benefits are more time spent with the family and friends deep in conversation instead of watching the road. More time for media and entertainment. Or just quiet time for all of us to unwind and maybe meditate with HEADSPACE. With risk comes reward. I don't see these dangers and issues any different than any other evolution in travel and mobility. The debate has begun on the ethics and other dilemmas... Listening to READY PLAYER ONE on AUDIBLE during my drive out to MALIBU this morning and on my daily walk. I'm excited. I absolutely love all the 80's pop culture references to video games, music, television, and devices. STEVEN SPIELBERG has begun production on the film and I'm hoping a healthy cultural obsession with that time period from fans as a result. Today, with the overwhelming nature of information and new things I notice that youth doesn't look back as much to understand origins. I don't often read books that turn into movies. The details are pretty stellar so far and I'm super interested to see how Spielberg bunches much of it into seconds of screen time without the voice overs. Cool stuff... Happy Birthday to my friend and mentor, JUDY MCGRATH, DENMARK WEST, PAUL KREMEN, AKSHAY KOTHARI, MATT FARBER, CHRISTOPHER FAUCI, LARRY GELFAND, BILL SHAMAM, MICHAEL STROUD and BETH HARRISON.
- Jason Hirschhorn, curator
admiral painter
Fusion
Brexit, Hamilton, and the limits of democracy
by Felix Salmon
Something scary is happening around the world.
AVC
Explaining Mediachain
by Fred Wilson
Here’s a presentation Denis Nazarov, co-founder of our portfolio company Mediachain, made about their open platform for creating a universal media library.
Medium
Obstructionism is terrible governance
by Reid Hoffman
Mitch McConnell and other Republican senators should do their jobs
Backchannel
The Winner in Mixed Reality Will Be…Snapchat
by Josh Miller
The leader in mixed realities may not be who you think. From table-constrained computer screens to pocket-friendly smartphones, the dominant technology interface in our lives has changed significantly over the past ten years. What will the next big interface look like? Based on the investments of technology leaders, the answer is probably virtual reality or augmented reality.
Mother Jones
Could This Silicon Valley Algorithm Pick Which Homeless People Get Housing?
by Josh Harkinson
A new approach seeks to find the most desperate people on the streets--with data.
The Washington Post
The technology behind the Tesla crash, explained
by Brian Fung
Thursday's tragic car crash involving the driver of a Tesla and a tractor trailer may well mark the world's first fatal accident in which a computer was at the wheel. The crash occurred when the truck turned left across the Tesla's path - but the car's autopilot failed to slow down.
The New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist: The Coming Political Realignment
by David Brooks
How Trump is smashing everything.
Sports Illustrated
Johnny Bench, the Chicken and an oral history of The Baseball Bunch
by Pete Croatto
The cast and creators tell the behind-the-scenes story of The Baseball Bunch, an early-1980s TV show that featured Hall of Famers Johnny Bench and Tommy Lasorda, the San Diego Chicken and a group of kids.
Salon
“A uniquely American tragedy“: The staggering myths about gun control
by Dennis A. Henigan
The gun lobby’s disproportionate political power will never be overcome until these fallacies are destroyed
Columbia Journalism Review
How Virginia Heffernan is reinventing tech criticism
by Sara M. Watson
Virginia Heffernan's Twitter bio once described her as "something like a critic." Her reluctance to fully embrace the title is understandable, given that most of what passes as technology criticism today tends either towards gadget reviews or curmudgeons bemoaning the loss of what makes us human.
bart mancuso
The Daily Beast
How the DEA Got A Cartel Queen to Flip
by Bruce Porter
After leaving her life laundering money for top cartel leaders, Pilar found herself running out of funds necessary to keep up her luxurious lifestyle-and then the DEA came knocking.
SB*Nation
Why NBA players get paid so much more than NFL stars
by Tom Ziller
Lots of NFL stars (and others) are peeping at the growing pockets of NBA players, wondering how this works. We explain.
TechCrunch
How AWS came to be
by Ron Miller
There are lots of stories about the formation of AWS, but this much we know: 10 years ago, Amazon Web Services, the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was launched with little fanfare as a side business for Amazon.com. Today, it's a highly successful company in its own right, riding a remarkable $10 billion run rate.
ScreenPrism
Ask the Director: Roger Ross Williams on "Life, Animated"
by Winn Periyasamy
Life, Animated (2016) is a moving documentary that takes viewers into the interior life of Owen Suskind, a young autistic man for whom Disney films have provided a powerful channel for communication, understanding and progress. Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Owen's father, Ron, the film is primarily structured around interviews with the Suskind family.
The Ringer
Hayao Miyazaki, Myth-Maker
by Justin Charity
The Japanese animator’s overwhelming influence stretches across the Pacific - and nothing is lost in translation
The Verge
Why Apple buying Tidal makes sense
by Micah Singleton
Apple is apparently in exploratory talks to acquire Jay Z's streaming service Tidal, for an undisclosed amount, according to The Wall Street Journal.Recode later confirmed the talks, though the sale might not happen, according to Ben Sisario, the excellent music reporter at The New York Times.
New Republic
How TV Dating Shows Changed Love and Marriage in China Forever
by Pan Wang
Marriage matchmaking has always been an important cultural practice in China. For generations, marriage was arranged by parents who followed the principle of "matching doors and windows," which meant that people needed to marry those of similar social and economic standing.
Priceonomics
How Children Went from Worthless to Priceless
Pricing a product can be a thorny issue. Will customers interpret a low price as a bargain, or as a sign of a low quality? Is allowing people to pay what they want for a product a profitable strategy?
BuzzFeed
Facebook’s Unsettling Referendum On News
by Charlie Warzel
In a turbulent week that's been largely defined by a controversial vote, Facebook just issued its own referendum on news in its News Feed. Put simply, the users have spoken and news lost.
ADWEEK
Why It’s Time to Kill Advertising as We Know It and Start Building 'Storyworlds'
by Jason Zada
It's a confusing time in the advertising industry. Currently, most agencies are treading water and at an impasse as to what the future holds. As an industry, we are deeply entrenched in an obsolete way of operating that frankly just doesn't work anymore.
MUSIC OF THE DAY
"Dead Man's Party"
Oingo Boingo
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