Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. | | | | | George C. Scott is 'Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson' in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (Columbia Pictures) | | | | |  | “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
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| | rantnrave:// Good Morning! Does anyone know how many LORAZEPAM cancel out 3 NESPRESSO DHARKAN capsules?... AT&T/TIME WARNER: Lots of voices are fairly pessimistic about deal approval based on the spread between stock price and deal price (somewhere between 33% to 40% approval probability). TRUMP is clearly against and CLINTON camp already signaling some hesitation. Interesting that many are so quick to be skeptical of big biz in terms of AT&T but we don’t hear much said about GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, etc. TIME WARNER CABLE and COMCAST deal got struck down even though they said Google and tech companies are their competition because regulators didn’t quite agree. Isn’t that more true today? Weren’t they right? Google and “techopolies” get a pass because they're the first monopolies to scale by charging consumers less not more, that’s great but in an age when scale keeps going up do we not have any limits anymore? Not sure there is a clear answer but we don’t seem to even have the conversations. If audience attention is the new infrastructure why don’t we regulate the last mile of audience infrastructure? We're reading a ton about the deal. We take a look in our new REDEF MediaSET: "AT&T Buys Time Warner"... I love TWITTER. Love, love, love, but. News of layoffs. The problem with Twitter is that I'm unsure if the people who work there know what it is they have. The users do. Many of us talk about how to fix it on the platform. It's not over. It has issues. My pal FRED WILSON said: "... Anyone who says it is past its prime, irrelevant, and failing is out of their mind." CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA suggested it should be more like REDDIT. Exactly. A more digestible Reddit. I've actually suggested this many times to TWITTER execs. It’s an interest-based network. That's why I care about it. I care less about the live nature. Live is great. Live video is also great. But I'm not stuck in a prison cell watching every moment live. They concentrated on live and neglected interests. I like it because I can find and communicate with “people” that have like interests. They should be going down the path we laid out in "Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry". Communities and interests. Fixing abuse. Allowing for longer conversations. Fixing onboarding so it's about your interests. Improving the video product to be about engaging with your specific communities around content. I’d like to see every video channel on TWITTER. Let FACEBOOK be the network that connects you with who you know already. Twitter should be the network that connects you with who you should know. It's not about what you're up to. But what you're into. It’s not about live. It’s about interests. And they don't seem to get that. Those of us that love it and see even more potential are mystified... Happy Birthday to NICOLE HANTAS-EMANUEL, NICK FROST and BRAD BECKERMAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| It's the deal of the year. The full media stack. Video and mobile. Everybody's talking about it. What does it mean? Pros & Cons. Skeptics. Hurdles. Here's what we're reading. | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| The Obama administration has been touting a decrease in commercial espionage, but the reality for corporate America may be more complicated. | | |
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 | Slate |
| First, Theo Epstein saved the Red Sox. Now he's rescuing the Cubs. Here's his secret. | | |
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 | Dissent Magazine |
| A new digital archive reveals the extent of the federal government’s role in fueling and enforcing midcentury housing discrimination. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| For the first time in history, Washington has accused a foreign government of trying to influence the US election. Sheera Frenkel investigates the Russian group accused of hacking the US election -- and finds they’ve been practicing for this moment for a long time. | | |
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 | D Magazine |
| Plano surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| David Roberts, a major figure in modern adventure literature, has explored risk, death, and loss for more than 50 years. Now he’s fighting cancer while producing new writing-including a series of reflections on his disease-that friends and colleagues believe is his best work yet. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| In many ways, the Chicago and Cleveland clubs about to begin this year’s World Series are similar teams. We know about the lengthy championship droughts each share, as well as their general, respective histories of futility. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Jeffrey Karp is at the forefront of a new generation of scientists using nature’s blueprints to create breakthrough medical technologies. Can bioinspiration help to solve some of humanity’s most urgent problems? | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| The company’s scientists think its new AI-based factotum will be the biggest thing since search. Welcome to The Transition. | | |
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| Are they the best basketball team ever assembled, or the evilest evil empire ever created? Or both? And can anyone beat them? | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| It seemed like compelling journalism: a major investigative story published by The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second largest daily newspaper, about workers fleeing the Fukushima nuclear plant against orders. | | |
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 | Miami New Times |
| When Harvey Daniels, trim and broad-shouldered in a V-neck tee, walks into the one-room office with views of Biscayne Bay, the IV bag is already waiting for him. Its liquid a shade of amber, the bag dangles from a chain hooked to the ceiling. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| Gender differences are a hot topic of interest in autism research. Studying them could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating the condition. | | |
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 | Broadly |
| The women and men behind the Cheesecake Factory reveal the untold story of how a tiny Beverly Hills restaurant known for its brown bread became a global chain mentioned in Drake songs and on "Keeping up with the Kardashians." | | |
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 | Techonomy |
| We think of technology as using computer science, biology or chemistry. But what if we consider the corporation itself as a kind of technology? It's possible to see the corporation as a technology for organizing labor, resources and capital towards the creation of economic and social value. So what defines a techonomic company? | | |
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 | Fusion |
| My vagina came with an instruction manual. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Conservative commentator Glenn Beck discusses the election and Donald Trump. | | |
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 | The Information |
| Sling’s CEO said satellite firm Dish’s ownership of the streaming service has been instrumental in negotiating the right size and price for its bundle of channels. He argues that tech companies will have a tougher time getting there without the negotiating leverage of an affiliated traditional TV service. | | |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
| The next generations of Murdochs and Sulzbergers step up, two newspaper chains chart the consolidation of the industry, and a Trump-driven shift in straight news reporting. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| In 1960, a Cambridge parapsychologist dressed in a bed-sheet attempted to haunt the audience of an X-rated film. His bizarre experiment accidentally explored the limits of human perception to reveal one of our mind’s strangest quirks. | | |
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 | The New York Review of Books |
| Since the early 1980s, leading global corporations have used British soil as a terrestrial aircraft carrier to assault the single European market. Trade figures for the past three decades show with brutal clarity how dependent the UK is on this status. Even with large inflows of foreign capital the UK’s trade performance has been the weakest of the G-7 economies. | | |
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