As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. | | | | | Matthew McConaughey as Rick Peck in "Tropic Thunder" (2008) (Paramount Pictures) | | | | |  | “As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm calling for the mock summary execution of anyone involved in the TV EVERYWHERE ecosystem. I have 3 APPLE TV devices in my LA home. I have to set each one up. Download each app all over again and then authenticate each TVE app again. This is such a poor experience. What do I say to this? GFY... I have been trying to activate HBO GO on my bedroom APPLE TV for 30 minutes. "Invalid activation code. Please try again." This is the new "PC LOAD LETTER" of the modern age. Failed 5 times. Never worked. That was after I had to login into my TIME WARNER SPECTRUM account first. What do I say to this? GFY... Only human beings could f*** this up so much. If they were WESTWORLD "hosts" everything would work fine. While minutes at TV are plummeting, the product and authentication ecosystem is embarrassing, abysmal, and downright sucks. What do I say to this? GFY. I'm going to NETFLIX. TV shows and movies are the only things that keep me from thinking about THE DEMOGORGON and his next 8 years. And now I can't even do that. Make TV user experiences great again, for once... I'm so annoyed I want to run down the street like a mental patient in an open back hospital gown screaming "Go f*** yourself TV Everywhere!" I'd be calmer waiting in a TSA line, then at baggage claim, then a late UBER passing me by on the app map while standing in the rain. I swear these executives get the casts to come and perform live in their homes. Because there is no way they use this s***. If SANTA brought me TVE... That is all... We all have users in our lives. The timing of bad users is so obvious. I don't mind being used sometimes, but I like a little grace... To listen to DONALD TRUMP, AMERICA is a horrible place. Everything is a disaster and he is the only savior. Schmucks... I wouldn't let CHRIS CHRISTIE work at PAPAYA KING. I love Papaya King... Who are the people that run the major news organizations? How do they see their jobs? How do they balance commerce and public good? They should be vetted by public hearings. Half kidding... OK, deep breath. Think of the important things and good people... A big shout out and thank you to ELLEN DEGENERES, JEFF KLEEMAN and the fine folks at A VERY GOOD PRODUCTION. Let's just say that in addition to their jobs they do nice things for people who need something to smile about. They do this without looking for glory and just because they want to make another human being feel good. Good people... And then there are horrible people... Happy Birthday to LANCE REISS, ROSS HUTKOFF, and ED COOPERMAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Atlantic |
| As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration. | | |
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 | naked capitalism |
| Uber's financials statements and economics shows a complete lack of progress towards profit and no reason to expect significant improvement. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Donald Trump connected to working-class whites’ angst on an emotional level. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| In a decade, Owen Hanson went from playing football and volleyball at USC to being the subject of a major FBI investigation into drug-trafficking, money-laundering, and illegal gambling. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Life and death in East Jerusalem’s Palestinian refugee camp. | | |
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 | Jacobin |
| In Massachusetts, students, parents, and teachers defeated a $23 million campaign to lift the state's cap on charter schools. How did they do it? | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Sagging ratings, national controversy, shameless greed: The conversation about the NFL has officially changed. Is it too late to fix it? | | |
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 | e-flux |
| "It is the last barrier to a perfectly smooth and seamless virtual experience. It draws attention to an asynchronous maladjustment, or misalignment, between the space of our bodies and the infinite atopian fluidity of the digital world." | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Donald Trump doesn’t wear ideology on his sleeve. But two of his most powerful advisers share a startlingly illiberal theory of politics. | | |
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 | Thump |
| How the rave scene responds to crisis is what really matters. | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| Our favorite shows have turned us all into internet detectives. But what happens when we outsmart the shows we love? | | |
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 | Business Insider |
| Results from new studies were encouraging enough that scientists hope they can get consent to conduct a large-scale study that could lead to FDA approval. | | |
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 | Search Engine Land |
| What can Google do to combat fake news? Columnist Ian Bowden illustrates some ways the search giant can tackle -- and already is tackling -- this problem. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| The search for oil was once depicted in movies and books as a boys' own adventure. But as films such as Deepwater Horizon show, in an age of anxieties over fossil fuels, oil's story is now a darker one. | | |
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 | War on the Rocks |
| There is an old adage about shortcuts: If they worked, they would simply be called “the way.” For military strategy, any shortcuts come with significant penalties. This is applicable across multiple domains, and it is the reason that operational flexibility is valued so highly in conflict. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| Social media is just the latest marketplace where sex is bought and sold. But a new generation of sex workers are finding their fans are interested in more than just their bodies. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| I used to post cat photos. Then a marketing agency made me a star. | | |
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 | Pandora |
| Questlove and crew have an in-depth discussion with singer-songwriter Solange about the people and incients that inspired her powerful new album, "A Seat at the Table." | | |
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 | recode |
| Racism and xenophobia are only the symptoms of that anxiety, he says. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The party drug - also known as ecstasy or molly - is entering the final stages of trials and could be approved for prescription use. | | |
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