She wrote that speech before Michelle Obama gave it. Stealin' Michelle. | | Chevy Chase in "Spies Like Us" (1985) (Warner Bros.) | | |  | “She wrote that speech before Michelle Obama gave it. Stealin' Michelle.” |
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| rantnrave:// Linear television networks today face seven key threats that continue to be overlooked, under-addressed or ignored. They don’t all apply to every network (nor are they equally menacing), but as a whole, they’re critical to both understanding and planning for the future of television. 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood is Wrong about the Future of TV... Me having fun with the GOP Convention (yes, I'm going to the same for the DNC too): "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." - Me... Everything is a remix... TRUMP entrance: If FREDDIE MERCURY were alive he'd kill himself right now... If Trump ever divorces her do you think he'll move for deportation? HENRY VIII would. I feel for her for real. Trying to support her husband, but this is the big leagues... I love LSD... Oh, the irony of Trump and the media business... Many of these extras from DELIVERANCE have never seen a MUSLIM... Absolutely nothing better than a Trump tweet... I'm not confirming or denying that I may have bought a term paper once... My favorite picture from the first night of the convention's... President Trump's cabinet choices... CHELSEA HANDLER getting in on it here and here... HOWARD STERN's WACK PACK replaced by convention speakers... WORD IS BOND, yo... And of course, the other guy that is never wrong... Happy Birthday to VIVI ZIGLER, ANDREW VOGEL and JEANNE DESANCTIS. | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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|  | Hyperallergic |
This past Saturday, protesters gathered in Baton Rouge to protest the death of Alton Sterling , an African American man shot to death while being arrested by white police officers. A video of the event had gone viral, sparking an announced Justice Department investigation and protests this weekend as over a thousand gathered in the streets. | |
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 | The Guardian |
As artists, record labels, music publishers and managers line up to lobby the US Congress and the European Union, it might seem as if YouTube is the worst thing to happen to the music business since Napster in 1999. The streaming service, the aggrieved parties claim, is causing a massive "value gap" that is unsustainable. | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
Before she was murdered by her brother in an ‘honor killing,’ she wasn’t just the ‘Pakistani Kim Kardashian.’ She was more: an incredibly fearless Pakistani women’s rights campaigner. | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
Racial and cultural resentment have replaced the party’s small government ethos. | |
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 | Versions |
In 2015, John Carmack, the "Doom" (1993) developer and Rift evangelist, described what he called Oculus's "nightmare scenario:" "People like the demo, they take it home, and they start throwing up." | |
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 | The Information |
Political correctness is all the rage, yet our technology is letting us down. A keyboard that checks the user’s typing for offensive terms could be a good business, particularly in the enterprises and at universities. | |
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 | Nautilus |
A handful of underfunded researchers still believe science can defy the odds. | |
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 | Pacific Standard |
At a time when we desperately need to care about Earth and the efforts to adjust our relationship to it, democratizing all our experiences fuels a complacency. | |
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 | The Washington Post |
Emily Infeld disappeared into a tent. She'd placed second in the 10,000 meter race at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Her adrenaline was still rushing, but she knew that wasn't what was needed at that particular moment. | |
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 | TomDispatch.com |
Of U.S. Military Interventions, Alien Disaster Movies, and "Star Wars." | |
|  | Motherboard |
To call "Minecraft" anything less than a phenomenon would be an understatement. Since releasing in 2009, it has sold more than a hundred million copies across almost every gaming platform and continues to sell another 50,000 more each day. | |
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 | GQ |
Maybe you heard about the Tamir Rice case and wondered: How does a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun on a playground get shot to death on-camera by the police without anyone getting charged? Put another way: How does a small group of government officials make this case disappear without a trial? | |
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 | Co.Design |
Cities are complex organisms shaped by myriad forces, but their organization bears the fingerprints of planners and policy makers who have shaped them for decades. At the root of many of these practices is racism, and modern cities bear the legacy of that discrimination. | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
The FBI may have declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton. But if she’s going to become president, she has to avoid all sorts of legal pitfalls between now and November. | |
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 | BBC News |
The advent of giant smart TVs and video-on-demand services like Netflix has turned our homes into comfortable mini cinemas. | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
"The people formerly known as the audience," as Jay Rosen famously put it, have been busy the past few years. They've recorded the police killings of Eric Garner in New York, Walter Scott in North Charleston, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge-raising serious questions about the role of race in the use of force, and fueling a national protest movement. | |
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 | Blavity |
If you're even remotely familiar with the entertainment industry, you'll have noticed a call to action by actors, producers and consumers for popular media to be more inclusive in their projects and representation of black men and women. | |
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 | Medium |
Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower. | |
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 | Ars Technica |
Recent technology reconstructs the urban grid of a city overtaken by jungle. | |
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 | ThinkProgress |
Every generation gets the Nixon tapes it deserves. Here is ours. | |
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 | The Economist |
Poor management of fisheries is not a local problem. It extends to the entire ocean. | |
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