Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. | | | | | Adam Goldstein aka "DJ AM" (Showtime) | | | | |  | “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
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| | rantnrave:// I spent the better part of the last year fighting for my life and in the last week I felt better than I have in 20 years. Something from that heart surgery opened me up emotionally. The events of the last few days just took all the joy out of it. Building up to it, I've never witnessed such division and hate. One of those times when I didn't know whether to retreat and filter or confront and reason. Yesterday, I didn't publish. I was speechless and sad. Today, I'm ready to fight again. ABRAHAM LINCOLN once said: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." I believe this with every bone in my body. I'm trying to make sense of it all by reading, listening and hearing. We don't seem to be preventative in this country. We respond to tragedy and catastrophe. Is this the tipping point for unity? I'm hopeful when I see those who suffer oppression denounce the police shootings. I wonder if police now will think more about gun control and assault weapons. Legitimate brutality? Will police denounce the bad apples in their own ranks? The Dallas Police Chief did. There is enough hurt on all sides to become one side. Lots of perspectives in our REDEF MediaSET: Race, Police, Guns, Murder, Anger, Pain, Civility, Respect, Sadness and Tragedy. More added soon... SHOWTIME continues its tradition of screening some of the best music documentaries (DAFT PUNK, THE EAGLES, BOWIE, etc) of our time. Last night I watched KEVIN KERSLAKE's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DJ AM. A sad and all-too-familiar tale of creative talent, good intentions, addictions, appetites, fear of disappointment and death too soon. You know how it ends but it's still compelling. I didn't know the man but by the end you think of him as a friend. I just wanted to give the guy a hug. He was a pioneer in the "DJ as rock star" world but couldn't escape early sadness and later tragedy. Good perspectives from friends and those around him. I know from experience that it's hard to ask for help when you're sick. Real friends stay on you and help pull you out and surround you with support. It's not shunning responsibility, but some need the pressure from others. The film is stacked with regrets from friends... Happy Birthday (yesterday) to MARC ANDREESSEN, ALICIA GOLDSTEIN, HAYLEY BARNA, MATT STRAUSS, ANTHONY JACOBSON, SCOTT CUNNINGHAM, STEVE GRIMES and WENDA HARRIS MILLARD (today). | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Some say they are targetted due to their skin color. Others due to their uniform. Gun violence, racism, police brutality, good cops getting killed. Is this the tipping point for unity? These are just some of the perspectives we've reviewed in the last few days. | | |
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 | Red Bull TV |
| Outspoken virtuoso DJ Tommie Sunshine explores the past, present and future of electronic dance music (EDM) in this documentary series that dispatches its host to nine cities around the world to explore the electronic dance music scene in each. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| I am in Nosara, a small, sleepy village on Costa Rica's northwest coast, with my wife, Gabrielle, to try something I have only scant experience with and which she has none: surfing. Which is why we are at Surf Simply, a seven-day intensive surf camp. | | |
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 | Spectrum |
| Childhood disintegrative disorder, a rare and severe condition, rapidly melts away a child’s abilities. A new theory proposes that this little-known condition turns back the developmental clock. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| Do you really want to know what it’s like to get smothered by a linebacker? | | |
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 | American Psychological Association |
| Psychologists and other child development experts are exploring how parents’ use of technology affects kids and the best ways to help families reconnect in the Digital Age. | | |
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 | ProPublica |
| Busted | | by Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders |
| Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them? | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Fraud, Santeria rituals and an unsolved killing at Doral Bank. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| It was clear from FBI Director James Comey's congressional testimony Thursday that he thinks Hillary Clinton lied to the American people, even if he was reluctant to say it in so many words. But then he didn't need to. We've known for over a year that Clinton has been lying about her server. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| In Wisconsin, a self-described soccer mom confessed to another soccer mom about taking money from the local club, only to discover she was taking even more money. A woman in Vermont was convicted of stealing from a fund established to honor a dead child who had been a club member. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| There is a conceit among many senior editors in the U.K. that Britain has " the best journalism in the world." At its best, certainly, British journalism is very good indeed. | | |
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 | Pando |
| We've always have a curveball of an interview at Pandoland. A session that attendees might normally expect at a "tech" event but that wound up being a lot of people's favorite. This year that session was unquestionablythe one starring novelist Margaret Atwood. | | |
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 | National Geographic |
| Hat tip to Allison Williams. From the air, the lines etched in the floor of the desert were hard to see, like drawings left in the sun too long. As our pilot cut tight turns over a desert plateau in southern Peru, north of the town of Nasca, I could just make out a succession of beautifully crafted figures. | | |
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 | Benedict Evans |
| As we all know, the internet changed how we chose what to read. It removed the old bundles and aggregation systems and created new ones, and those new systems result in different things being read in different amounts and from different kinds of publishers. It seems to me that much of this is going to happen to retail. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| How rap mixtapes evolved from a humble regional format to a worldwide phenomenon. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Ralph Lauren himself, a still-youthful 76, remains the company's chief creative officer and executive chairman. He built the company by evoking an idyllic past from which hard times were banished, taking inspiration from Ivy League college students, prewar British aristocrats and frontier cowboys. | | |
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 | Brain Pickings |
| “The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give.” | | |
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 | Jacobin |
| Viral content seems democratic. But it’s still mostly controlled by the big media companies. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| "The Perfect Weekend for an Introvert" is far from perfect, technically. The two-minute video, hot out of Buzzfeed's L.A. content mill, feels like a five-second joke stretched into 120. But the idea for the video was pretty good: so good, in fact, that Akilah Hughes claims to have had it six months ago. | | |
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 | CleverTap |
| Human beings try to find patterns to explain the reason behind almost every phenomenon, but that doesn't mean that there is a pattern to rely on. Superstitions are a classic example where spurious patterns were generalized to explain many a phenomena. | | |
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 | Racked |
| How Yankee Candle took over the world, one wacky smell at a time. | | |
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 | Live in Auckland, 2001. |
| | | | Eddie Vedder and Betchadupa cover Split Enz |
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