Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. | | | | | Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in "Harold and Maude" (1971) (Paramount Pictures) | | | | |  | “Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”
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| | rantnrave:// 18 months ago, we wrote one of our most popular REDEF Originals to date, “Less Money, Mo' Music & Lots of Problems: A Look at the Music Biz”. Since then, the music business – thanks to music streaming services such as SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC and PANDORA – has finally put an end to 15 years of revenue decline. But as we outlined, this reversion does little to change the infinitesimal royalties received by artists and creatives, nor the fact that the streaming services themselves are racking up big losses. Having trouble seeing how this can change without big reductions to the cuts taken by labels. Without question labels are less necessary (or important) in releasing music – see BEYONCE, FRANK OCEAN, DRAKE, RADIOHEAD. Not sure of the right revenue mix, but it seems wrong that artists are starving, streaming services are losing money while restoring growth to the music biz and labels are doing less than ever but still taking home pre-NAPSTER fees. The value chain of the music business is totally f***ed up. That said, if you're into music, technology, business and culture then MusicREDEF is for you... No content licensing deal should be done without a product person in the room... BRIAN GRAZER AND RON HOWARD have a very cool new show: MARS. To fight the likelihood of the extinction of the human race by some catastrophic event, colonizing Mars is our best answer. Debuting November 14th, the show uses a clever mix of sci-fi drama with documentary-style segments featuring ELON MUSK and NASA brainiacs. If you dig science, space, sci-fi and future narratives, go all-in on this one. Now streaming the first episode for free on the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL and ITUNES... UBER signs up DELTA TAU CHI... BERNIE has a point... How often do you choose yourself over work? And why?... New rule: If you don't like immigrants you're not allowed to eat any foreign cuisines... That's some motherf****in' photo... Happy Birthday to PREM AKKARAJU, JENNIFER DEGUZMAN and JASON KRYSTAL. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Just Security |
| The world of 2016 is one where leaking a lot is much easier than leaking a little. And the indiscriminate compromise of people’s selfies, ephemeral data, and personal correspondence -- what we used to rightly think of as a simple and brutal invasion of privacy -- has become the unremarkable chaff surrounding a few worthy instances of potentially genuine whistleblowing. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| What really sparked the world’s incredible revolution in wealth. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| After a dismaying 2015, CEO Nick Woodman is refocusing, betting the company's future on software, new audiences, and a bit of Karma. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| The Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse, France, is an amazing place. It has the largest collection of automobiles on display, thanks to the Swiss brothers Hans.. | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| Fake news has become a plague on the web. Especially on social media networks like Facebook. Brian Stelter explains why everyone needs a new rule for the web. | | |
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 | ADWEEK |
| Alvin Zhou is not your typical video producer. On a recent fall afternoon, he's hovering over a table in a test kitchen cutting and prepping vegetables and meat that he'll later whip into an ersatz "fried rice" dish made with cauliflower. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding the "illusion of truth" effect can help you avoid falling victim to this trick. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| As the Redstones figure out how to save Viacom, they need to start by turning around Paramount. | | |
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 | Real Life |
| Citation is about more than giving credit; it’s about passing off an idea of yourself as your own | | |
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 | TIME |
| One part totally rational; one part totally sexist and unfair | | |
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 | Salon |
| Electing our first woman president may be even tougher than our first black president - but both reveal huge rifts | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| In theory, the internet could be a great place for crowdsourced journalism, analysis, and debunking. In theory. | | |
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 | Fusion |
| In rural North Dakota, the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Chief THR TV critic Tim Goodman moderates a discussion with the team behind the Emmy-winning FX series. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| "The internet before the internet." | | |
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 | Vox |
| Some of the victims of mass hysteria over satanic ritual abuse are still serving sentences. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Why the right-wing radio host and pundit who made a career of online provocation is now holding back. | | |
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 | surveillancevalley.net |
| Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Google-Military Complex - A book by Yasha Levine that tells the story of how Silicon Valley turned the Internet into the greatest surveillance apparatus in the history of mankind. | | |
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 | The Hill |
| OPINION | After acting so improperly, James Comey should resign. | | |
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| Fast Company |
| Tommy Hilfiger shares lessons from growing too fast in the '90s and explains how to build a global, digital brand. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| It’s 29 years since the Smiths split up, and founding member Johnny Marr isn’t angry any more. So what happened when he and Morrissey met for a drink? | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| Say you get served a burger at a restaurant, and something about it isn’t quite right. Do you know what went wrong? Does your server? Does the restaurant? The suppliers? Hard to know. Each part of the sandwich - the beef, lettuce, tomato, bun, condiments, cheese - came together on the plate from separate long and intricate supply chains that go all the way back to a farm. | | |
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