Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. | | | | | Alec Baldwin as Donald J. Trump on Saturday Night Live (NBC) | | | | |  | “Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”
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| | rantnrave:// Can I submit ALEC BALDWIN for an American hero award? SNL's cold open was perfection but a little late for my taste. We needed more SNL during this election. Sometimes humor is the ultimate truth. Maybe an unfair burden to put on LORNE MICHAELS and troop but I depend on them. As actor BILL BOB THORNTON said in the NATIONAL LAMPOON documentary, DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: "Through humor, you can tell the truth. It’s the job of a satirist to make people in power feel uncomfortable.” Guest host MARGOT ROBBIE kills it too... My post-surgery media catch-up mission continues. Watched ALEX GIBNEY's fantastic documentary ZERO DAYS. The origins and implications of the STUXNET virus that savaged IRAN's NATANZ nuclear facility. No HOLLYWOOD movie could match the true story. You can't make this stuff up. Fascinating look into how this came to life as a way for the US to steer ISRAEL away from launching military attacks. It's a thriller with all the ingredients: political intrigue, military operations, hi-tech sleuthing, assassinations, betrayal, hypocrisy, fear, and more. Many think cyberwar is virtual with no implications or damage in the physical world. This couldn't be further from the truth. The doc shows that the attack was a pandora's box with still unknown effects on global peace and safety. Ones you can't put back into the box. REDEF's MATTY KARAS often pokes fun at my wide-ranging, often far-fetched and unequal comparisons. Almost everyone in the doc talks about the attacks hypothetically but won't admit anything even though we know they know and they know we know. Made me think of ESPN's 30 for 30's PONY EXCESS. Huh, you say? In that much lighter doc, you see the widespread violations of NCAA rules where alumni paid student-athletes. The only difference? Everyone admits what they did. Often proudly. Yes, it's a terrible comparison to nuclear intrigue, but watching Gibney trying to coax it out of officials is frustrating and at times comical. Not talking about it is dangerous because as the film shows, secrecy hurts reform. This is 2 hours very well spent... Parents that let their kids use devices in restaurants without headphones should be smacked. Not even delving into the use of the device here. Or that the parent in question was on her phone talking on speaker. Maybe even caning instead of smacking... Want to know why sports rights cost so much? Here ya go... Same microphone conspiracy culprits that screwed DONALD TRUMP also screwed CHEVY CHASE in SPIES LIKE US... How can the CARNEGIE DELI be closing? Sadness... It's 2016 and I can't drag and drop an email into a task. WTF?... USA TODAY makes history... Happy Birthday to ROB REID, DAVID GOLDMAN and DANICKO DORSEY. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. | | |
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 | Wait But Why |
| It's gonna take you to Mars. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| As New Delhi and Islamabad trade nuclear threats and deadly attacks, a brewing war over shared water resources threatens to turn up the violence. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| The rapper talks the struggle that shaped the stunning new album, 'Atrocity Exhibition.' | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| Will artificial intelligence replace humans, or assist humans? That's the great debate in Silicon Valley, and the larger world of technology. We'll see this debate play out over and over, from the Westworld HBO television show that begins on Sunday to tech events that happen every week in the valley. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| For years, players have been valued for their hitting. Now a groundbreaking tool makes it possible to measure how much their defense contributes to a team’s success | | |
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 | Silicon Valley Product Group |
| When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 effectively makes it illegal to investigate unfair housing and employment practices on the Internet. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Clinics are popping up across the country to help kids as young as 3 who might be transgender, but some say it’s too much, too soon. While doctors argue, families like Nicole’s don’t have time to wait. | | |
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 | 5280 Magazine |
| Journalists at the state’s largest newspaper once wondered how much more they’d have to endure. Now they’re finding out. | | |
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 | 1stdibs Introspective |
| Proposing styles from chic and understated to mirrored and opulent, David Netto, Betsy Burnham, Robert Couturier, Alexandra Loew and Brian J. McCarthy reveal how they would decorate the executive mansion . . . for both candidates. | | |
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 | Eater |
| An ode to the pizza borg that will let us order via app or bot, from sea to shining sea, in the middle of San Francisco or the outskirts of Sheboygan | | |
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 | TechRadar |
| Our gadgets are evolving more quickly than we are. Should we be worried? | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| America is so polarized that a cardboard cutout with an “R” on it would get about 43 percent of the vote, and one with a “D” would get about the same. | | |
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 | NOVA |
| Viruses that infected our ancestors provided the genetic foundations for many traits that define us. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| The early electronic music era in Canada is hardly a man's game. It's time to shine the light on the many women who took the lead in the nation's electronic experimentation | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| Obama has brewed beer at the White House and slurped noodles with Anthony Bourdain. He’s also given culinary issues a platform beyond the foodie fringe. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| In the age of Instagram and Snapchat, forums may seem like antiquated artefacts of a bygone era, but fashion needs them more than ever, argues Susanna Lau. | | |
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 | Open Culture |
| Image by BBC Radio 6 'Symphonies, perfume, sports cars, graffiti, needlepoint, monuments, tattoos, slang, Ming vases, doodles, poodles, apple strudels. Still life, Second Life, bed knobs and boob jobs' - why do we make any of these things? | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| Its founders had to pivot before they made it through the velvet rope. | | |
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 | GamesIndustry |
| Amazon Game Studios head Patrick Gilmore explains community-driven approach to AAA as company unveils three new titles. | | |
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 | Fusion |
| There’s never been a better time to be gender nonconforming. So why do we still discriminate against feminine men? | | |
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