If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. | | | | | Yul Brynner in the original "Westworld" (1973 ) (Warner Bros.) | | | | |  | “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
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| | rantnrave:// I may not be a fan of the TRUMP candidacy but I'm also not a fan of baseless mudslinging against the candidacy I'm not a fan of. HOWARD DEAN's suggestion that Trump was on cocaine during the debate was terrible and reckless. The other side needs to act better. I 100% do not think he was on coke. It's possible he had a DHARKAN NESPRESSO capsule with an intensity of 12. I had one yesterday and then went to work at SOHO HOUSE. I was grinding my teeth, tapping my foot and generally moving around in my seat for 5 hours. Any of those capsules over a 5 should be a controlled substance. Was working on 4500 unanswered emails and now only 4048 to go. Apologies to the REDEF staff. Maybe Dean was just alarmed by Trump and needs a CITIZEN THERAPIST. That said, Trump did misbehave in JFK v. Trump v. NIXON debate ... I'm long on HBO's WESTWORLD. Watched a few episodes. Don't want to give spoilers but here's what I thought of: LAS VEGAS. If this is the future, Vegas better up its pleasure game and start comping rooms to the techies. As a guest at Westworld says: "went straight-up evil, had the best two weeks of my life." The first episode sets it all up with A.I., fantasy, pleasure, sex, murder, technology, morality, cruelty, violence, ethics, reality (virtual and otherwise), makers, humanity, differing agendas and more more more. It's a keeper so far and I think it's going to ask us a lot of interesting questions about ourselves, our future with technology, and how we act towards one another when technology is a buffer... I love mashups. My friend JONATHAN SHECTER reminds me that the evolution of mashup DJ style in the U.S. goes from DJ SPINBAD in NY to LA with Z TRIP and DJ P then back to NY with STRETCH ARMSTRONG and back to LA with DJ AM then into GIRL TALK. All insanely good and lots in between... IFC's DOCUMENTARY NOW! is a must-watch. I've said this a few times, but the 30-minute spoof of JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI is just so so good. JUAN LIKES CHICKEN & RICE is perfect. "It's the only 3-star Michelin restaurant that I know of that's a 40-minute walk from the nearest road." These guys are f***ing geniuses. The show is one of the best comedic creations in years. Watch it right now... Happy Birthday to GUY OSEARY, LYOR COHEN, MATT MAZZEO, SAM SCHWARTZ, SEAN COHAN, SARAH JEON and ASHLEY HIGHFIELD. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| "What we wanted to do is get you to look at the human form as a machine," Jonathan Nolan tells THR about the show's use of nudity and sexuality. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley? | | |
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 | The Independent |
| Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, resigned from her position at 9am this morning. Here, in an exclusive extract of the speech she will deliver Friday afternoon at the Prix Italia festival in Lampedusa, she reflects on a career in broadcasting, and makes the case for ‘slow news’ | | |
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 | Fusion |
| The air in Southwest Indiana has fine particles higher than 90 percent of all U.S. counties. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| What does the hiring of the ex-300 exec mean for music industry harmony? | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| Analyzing how stories change in the retelling down through the generations sheds light on the history of human migration going as far back as the Paleolithic period | | |
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 | Pressthink |
| What journalists say back when they are criticized for mishandling coverage of Trump | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| "When you're told for 500 years, ‘your ways are evil’-that damages your self-esteem.” | | |
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 | BBC Sport |
| F1's lavish lifestyle is reserved only for a select few. For the mechanics, it can very quickly turn into a nightmare. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Experiments like one in Bangalore, luring migrants to fill factory jobs, collide with an old way of life that keeps women and girls in seclusion until an arranged marriage. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Blue Apron wants to revolutionize the food system by selling would-be home cooks all the ingredients they need to make a meal without setting foot in the grocery store. But a BuzzFeed News investigation has found that in the rush to scale its supply chain at the speed of startup, the company has had health and safety violations, violent incidents, and unhappy workers at one of its packing facilities. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Artificial intelligence has captured the rhythm of science fiction. For example, the script of a new science fiction short is the creation of a bot. Although the software provides the order of the word choices, the source material is human. It works by algorithm and it derives its poetic power from the words of human feeling. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Even fake cocaine made of vitamin powder can send you to the hospital | | |
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 | XLR8R |
| An anonymous musician talks us through the hard realities that many touring DJs face up to. | | |
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 | Eater |
| A history (though no, not an oral one) of pornography's most persistent narrative cliche | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| New York Times reporter Susanne Craig received a letter with records of Donald Trump's 1995 tax filings. She tells Brian Stelter about verifying the records and suggests The Times might have more. | | |
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 | David Higgerson |
| The 'impact' journalism has is in danger of replacing 'online ethics' as the topic du jour - but maybe for once the subject is one we should all be diving into. | | |
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 | Financial Times |
| Security focus is shifting to make it harder for intruders to leave with anything of value | | |
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 | Vocativ |
| In the thriving subculture of pornographic fakes, Photoshop whizzes seamlessly edit women's faces into pornographic scenes | | |
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 | Traffic Magazine |
| Major League Gaming is building the ESPN of eSports. And reshaping sports media. | | |
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 | W Magazine |
| In a revealing conversation with Rookie's Tavi Gevinson, Solange Knowles speaks out on motherhood, racism and black empowerment -- themes that dominate her third studio album, A Seat at the Table, which was released today: "I like to think that this is my punk moment." | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The social network has never become the online shopping emporium once predicted. Will its most ambitious strategy yet change all that? | | |
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 | Ark Recordings |
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