Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. | | | | Tekashi 6ix9ine in Stockholm, Sweden. How will a guy with tattoos on his face go into witness protection?
| | | | |  | “Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
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| | rantnrave:// Much of the beginning of REDEF as a company was at our WEWORK office in NYC. I really enjoyed the place. I take no pleasure in watching the non-tech, rent arbitrage company get kicked in the nuts these last few weeks. I liked the service and the employees worked hard to make it a pleasurable environment. Some anecdotes from my "stay." I liked the common areas. And the "phone booth" desks. Those desks made me feel swaddled with a laptop. Though the youngins would camp out all day and leave their stuff there. These are the same "booth-hogging" offenders at SOHO HOUSE worldwide. I used to subscribe to BIRCHBOX for men. I really like the founders. I never used the beard oil I would get in the box so I would leave them in the common area of our WeWork. The Millenials scarfed those up faster than coders ransacking the leftover catered food for executive meetings at MICROSOFT in the Aughts. Also, with WeWork founder ADAM NEUMANN possibly getting his head handed to him this week, I think about all the f***ing "genius" profiles I've read. In a tweet, the opinionator CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA pointed out their celebrity defense. Maybe Neuman is a genius, maybe he isn't. But in the WeWork we were in, there were about 200 people on each floor. And two urinals and two toilets for men. The lines to take a piss were longer than JAWS on opening day. You'd think they were selling CRONUTS. That's genius? And he apparently gets stoned. Maybe not $47 Billion IPO-like behavior but you wouldn't see many of "tech" companies you love if the founders hadn't been stoned to begin with... So this DANIEL HERNANDEZ, aka, TEKASHI 69, aka 6IX9INE, (the tattoo-faced rapper) thing is fascinating to me. He's facing racketeering, drug trafficking, and other fun charges. He's turning on fellow rappers and fingering them as gang members. Is this some plea deal? My assumption is he goes into witness protection. My question is how does a social media star with tattoos all over his face go into witness protection?... Like any industry, the news media has journalists that are great, ok, and bad. A defining factor of our great democracy is the FOURTH ESTATE. I'm a big believer. PRESIDENT KENNEDY explained the ultimate benefit even in the face of criticism and scrutiny. Some of the most recent, important issues and malfeasance of our time have been uncovered not by government or authorities, but by those great journalists. Those that repeat the claims of fake news, support those that are doing the lying about fake news. Those that perpetuate the fraud that media is our enemy are actually the enemy of the people. There is a malignant tumor in our country. This weekend, we watched administration officials defending an immoral, unethical, soulless leader. And thus, selling their souls. Talk shows featuring these despicable sycophants. Later, if there is justice, they'll say they were just following orders. Sound familiar?... Belated Happy Birthday to JANE ROSENTHAL, VINCENT BROADY, MICHAEL DAVIS, RICHARD GLOSSER, DAN BURRELL, STEVE STANFORD, ELLIE WHEELER, NOAH WINTROUB, DAVID GOODRICH, JUSTIN ROSENBLATT, DANIEL PAUL, and PAUL BORGESE. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | TechCrunch |
| It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle. All you have to do is velcro on the shoes and you're trapped. You've eliminated choice and you will exercise. Through a succession of savvy product design choice I'll break down here, Peloton re... | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| This week, in a New York district court, one of music's least sympathetic characters, the Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, took the stand to testify against alleged members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, the gang with which he associated himself. | | |
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 | Medium |
| So in a nutshell, this is what we know about this charade so far. | | |
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 | The Distillery |
| Video and transcript of one of Andreas Antonopoulos' most powerful speeches, unedited, and transcribed in full. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Adrian Lamo was a hero in the hacker community for years. Everything changed when he began exchanging messages with U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. | | |
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 | NZS Capital, LLC |
| I don’t often walk through specific scenario analysis for companies or talk about what I think stocks might be worth in the future in this newsletter. There is a good reason for that – our process relies on not needing to narrowly predict the future. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Music is such a common element in our everyday lives that we often lose track of the vital role it plays in deeply connecting people. Back in the day, the main bridge for such connection was that of the DJ, whether via radio or at a party. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| The former NSA contractor is shedding new light on his decision to reveal classified documents about the U.S. government's mass surveillance program | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Despite being subjected to a daily diet of Trump headlines, I was unprepared for the president’s alarming incoherence | | |
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 | Pop Culture Detective |
| The hit Netflix series "Stranger Things" is a love letter to iconic pop culture media of decades past. But there are dangers in leaning too heavily on nostalgia because media makers can sometimes end up reproducing harmful patterns along with their retro aesthetics, especially when it comes to action hero masculinity and belligerent romance conventions from the 1980s. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| They fear that if they stick to the rules, they will lose everything. Their behavior is a threat to democratic stability. | | |
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 | MIT News |
| Study analyzes how networks can distort voters’ perceptions and change election results. | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| CNN's Brian Stelter criticizes President Trump's supporters for dismissing the whistleblower complaint over the President's alleged communication with Ukraine about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Daniel Morris' record of dishonesty illustrates the type of important evidence about law enforcement misconduct that was long kept secret in California. | | |
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 | Syfy |
| In a season of many hotly anticipated movies and the fever of awards talk in the air, there may be no film as loudly debated as "Joker." DC's one-off reimagining of the origin story for Batman's most iconic villain was announced amid a flurry of skepticism in 2017, with Todd Phillips attached to direct and Martin Scorsese's name floated as a possible producer. | | |
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 | WIRED |
| Here's how the chip in each new iPhone works and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology. About 72 minutes into the annual iPhone launch event, Apple senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller invited Sri Santhanam to come onstage and talk about the brand-new A13 Bionic chip found inside all three of the new phones. | | |
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| NPR |
| Mitchell, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and anchor of her own MSNBC show, looks back on her career in journalism. She's receiving a lifetime achievement Emmy on Sept. 24. | | |
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 | Science |
| With solar and wind booming, the chemical industry dabbles with forgoing petroleum as its source. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| Alaska’s health clinics were founded to help indigenous people like my family. Thanks to the FDA and Big Pharma, the clinics unwittingly enabled a crisis instead. | | |
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| TechCrunch |
| An "Oversight Board" programmed by Facebook should not be confused with democratic oversight. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Through albums, film scores, operas, and his multi-media “Caravan,” jazz artist Terence Blanchard’s music takes aim at violence and intolerance, setting its sights on compassion. | | |
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 | Thoughts from Alex Danco |
| We have to talk about WeWork again! | | |
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