This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. | | | | | Geoffrey Holder is Baron Samedi in "Live and Let Die" (1973) (United Artists) | | | | |  | “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm trying to rethink my relationship to media and technology because like any drug they have an effect on my body and mind. Oh, and I just watched BLACK MIRROR and yeah, the election. Will FACEBOOK (the leading example of a social network) go down as one of the most helpful or most destructive innovations of our time? "Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them." I'm not sure it's making my relationships richer. I definitely don't ask "whatever happened to" anymore. But the people I follow, it's like flipping through a magazine or channels on a television. Do you remember the last time you saw someone or are you confused with what you saw on Facebook? Is information about them really a connection? Or just another character in your online show? Is the Pavlovian behavior we expose in ourselves every day a result of a platform preying on our most vulnerable traits? Can we be self-aware enough to understand what it's doing to us? Are we just pawns in their game, clicking away like so many gambling addicts pulling the handles on slot machines in LAS VEGAS? Interestingly, GOOGLE has avoided the PR nightmare so far brought on by "fake news". And while BREITBART comes up high on their search results they are also trying to create safer cities, make your home cheaper and better to live in, driving cars safer, live healthier lives, and invest in life sciences. They aren't perfect by any stretch (think WESTWORLD) but these are some lofty goals. Interesting contrasts between the two. Which enriches us and which isolates us more? I used to ridicule friends that weren't on social media. They have another trait in common: they're often the happiest people I know. If you could wave a magic wand at the apps that you use which would you wish existed or didn't exist in 10 years?... If you want to win do you invest to win the next 5 years or do you invest to win in 20 years? Therein lies the big difference between media and technologies companies... If you were CBS, would you buy SPOTIFY or VIACOM? Roughly in the same ballpark give or take a few billion. With one you get what may be the biggest subscription product in the world at some point and the other you get some content you could license. An interesting thought from a discussion with a friend... I'm a musical purist. I don't like when artists do medleys... Which museum will house truth?... I want to sit down with ROBERT REDFORD and discuss QUIZ SHOW. "Television is gonna get us"... Oh, the irony... Where are the moral hackers? Exposing hatred, racism, sexism, and corruption. We don't really know who to turn to combat the coming fear... We need more heroes like this... "I like to drink wine more than I used to." - ME and VITO CORLEONE... Happy Birthday to TOM FRESTON, TODD MOSCOWITZ, ALLEN DEBEVOISE, DONNY DEUTSCH, HALLA TIMON, JULIE GORDON, MATT EDELMAN, RANDALL KAPLAN, AND MIKE PRAW. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Vox |
| There's a simple theory underlying much of American politics. It sits hopefully at the base of almost every speech, every op-ed, every article, and every panel discussion. It courses through the Constitution and is a constant in President Obama's most stirring addresses. | | |
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 | The Information |
| The internet is turning out to be a disaster for information diversity, contrary to widespread opinion among the technorati. The more seductive ideas crowd out niche opinions. The danger is that it’s now possible for the government to regulate actual speech. | | |
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 | BTIG Research |
| Sumner Redstone, who controls Viacom and CBS, coined the phrase “Content is King.” We have repeatedly seen content creators and distributors (pipes) combine in hopes of creating synergy. Yet, meaningful synergies have never materialized through these vertically-integrated combinations. With AT&T attempting to acquire Time Warner, the topic of vertical integration has once again taken center stage across the media industry with investors debating who is king: content, distribution or a combination of both? | | |
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 | Slate |
| This week, a large organization struck a deal to fuel a huge chunk of its operations with wind power. Another one conspicuously announced that its newe ... | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| Lawsuits? Leak prosecutions? Briefing room bans? FCC license revocations? Famed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams describes ways Trump could wield executive power to punish journalists. | | |
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 | SURFACE |
| How the musician, fashion designer, and artist plans to make the world a better place. | | |
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 | Blockgeeks |
| The presidential election of 2016 is a watershed event in American and global politics. This is true for a number of reasons. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| He appeared out of nowhere. He had no name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. How could B.K. Doe remain anonymous in the modern age’s matrix of observation? | | |
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 | Jacobin |
| Silvio Berlusconi's tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Still juicy and sweet, though. | | |
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 | VQR |
| Encountering New Orleans’s racial undertones one meal at a time. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Given recent history, it's a story that deserves retelling. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Salvadoran website El Faro has built its reputation with stirring stories of gangland, sparking threats at home and racking up prizes abroad. | | |
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 | Business Insider |
| The CEO of a $1 billion (£810 million) Silicon Valley software company believes the world is approaching a tech-driven employment crisis that already contributed to Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential election. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| "The Cognitive Risk Framework for Cybersecurity is in response to an interim process of transitioning to a new level of business operations (cognitive computing) informed by better intelligence to solve the problems that hinder growth." | | |
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 | CBS News |
| He's been broke, busted and nearly homeless. Now, as "60 Minutes'" Lara Logan reports, he's on top of the music world. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Seven A-list contenders -- including Amy Adams, Annette Bening, Naomie Harris and Isabelle Huppert -- sound off on their biggest fears, bucket-list goals and why questions about equal pay should be directed toward producers: "We are always put on the chopping block to put our opinion out there. ... I don't want to be a headline anymore about pay equality." | | |
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 | Glixel |
| 'Infinite Warfare' takes a decidedly Naughty Dog approach with its campaign, not to mention some of its team. | | |
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 | Flood Magazine |
| On its fortieth anniversary, the sci-fi classic is getting a 4K re-release. Here, the earthlings involved-including cinematographer Tony Richmond and Bowie's co-star Candy Clark-talk about the moment the star became a man. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The chairman brought net neutrality back from the dead, but Donald Trump may try to kill it off again. | | |
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 | TED-Ed |
| The genre of dystopia -- the ‘not good place’-- has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales -- not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Karl-Anthony Towns isn't just Rookie of the Year or the next great NBA center. He's the man destined to redefine what it means to dominate. | | |
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 | MTV Unplugged |
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