The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. | | | | | "Dark times call for dark deeds." Black Sails. 2017. (Starz) | | | | |  | “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
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| | rantnrave:// Happy Valentine's Day... Back at it after taking the week off. I was going to take a few more days but BRIAN ROBBINS was getting antsy. REDEF is his NZT... Hey, journalists! Did you know you can submit your work for inclusion in REDEF? Bookmark this... I'm pretty sure no one is up there looking after me. And if they are, they suck at it. Or MOM and BLAKE are f***ing with me. Get to it already. My list is long... THE ECONOMIST has a fantastic special report on technology and entertainment. With a few REDEF charts (wish they positioned credit differently)... If you follow me on TWITTER then you know I have no patience for bad customer service. Issues happen, yes. Being uninformed, largely silent, or generally incompetent drives me insane. Largely perpetrated by a former favorite "love brand", VIRGIN AMERICA. Twice this week. I won't go into specifics, I'll do that soon when I rant about airlines. Stay on hold? Try to work out issues? Get credit or refund? I had no patience. Enter my friend MICHAEL SCHNEIDER and his company GET SERVICE. He's been after to me to try it for a long time. I called him from the gate. You download the app, report the problem and they try to fix it for you. The follow-up is phenomenal. The price is a percentage of recovery. You may think it's fine or a little too expensive. Me? My time and patience mean a lot to me. So well worth it. Telcos, airlines, commerce sites, and more. Go to it... TV all night long: A few years ago KATIE COURIC and I were having breakfast and like a young child I flung 100 questions at her. How did you do this? Why did you do that? What was that interview like? What are some cool story ideas you're working on? One of the topics she was keen on exploring was gender identity. NATGEO continues its impressive cool programming for the curious (they trick me into learning) with GENDER REVOLUTION: A JOURNEY WITH KATIE COURIC. Exploring the complexities of gender identity... Special shout-out to SHOWTIME's DAVID NEVINS for letting me have sneak peaks. Watch BILLIONS. I can't get enough. And the world doesn't end... STARZ continues to draw me in with the new season of BLACK SAILS. Great escape since dystopian drama went real-life. Includes best theme song on TV now... And finally, the electronic music on THE YOUNG POPE... ADELE's upset win over BEYONCÉ's at the 2017 GRAMMY AWARDS reopened an old wound. What does a black artist have to do to get recognized by the Grammys? Or, more to the point: What do the Grammys have to do? REDEF MusicSET: "Beyoncé, Adele and #GrammysSoWhite"... No, it's not going to get better. This is who he is. This is who he hired. Him and her. And this scary f***er, my new worst person on earth. This is going to go on for 8 years. I believe that. Did you watch his press conference with TRUDEAU? OMG. TRUMP is only comfortable when speaking and saying nothing. The more adjectives the more unprepared he is. I always wanted to be a rock star. Never learned to play an instrument. One of my many regrets. I have this recurring dream that I'm on stage at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN about to kill it and then I realize I don't know how to sing or play. That's a Trumpian press conference. America, we've chosen unwisely. Are you like him? Unwilling to admit it?... Happy Birthday to LEE SOLOMON, AMIT SHAFRIR, ROBERT ROSENBERG, LIZ GATELEY, JARA SHAPIRO, ANGELO SOTIRA, DOUGLAS ALDEN and FRED SALKIND. Belated to TOM ANDRUS, GIL KAUFMAN, ALEXIS D'AMECOURT, BOB KOHN, EZRA KUCHARZ, ERIK TORENBERG, TIM WESLEY, BRUCE FRIEND, ALISON LOCKER and SCOTT PARDO. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Eater |
| The Modernist Cuisine author talks carbohydrate history and strategies for barbecuing dinosaurs | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Algorithms are producing profiles of you. What do they say? You probably don’t have the right to know. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Over four straight cycles, Democrats have suffered historic losses. Why? Because they learned all the wrong lessons from Obama’s success. | | |
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 | Ars Technica UK |
| Should the WWW be locked down with DRM? Tim Berners-Lee needs to decide, and soon. | | |
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 | Vice |
| 'Future Sex' author Emily Witt recalls her encounters with looming sex gods, tentacle monsters, and pneumatic dominatrices. | | |
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 | Seattle Met Magazine |
| The Tunnel Creek avalanche took the lives of three world-class skiers and was immortalized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" story. Five years later, the survivors, friends, and family members reflect on what was lost that day. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Good deals (and plausible deniability) make good neighbors. | | |
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 | ELLE |
| The gospels according to Lana, Fiona, and Dolly | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| A weekly diary on life in Trump’s America. | | |
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 | Rodney Brooks |
| Moore’s Law, concerning what we put on silicon wafers, is over after a solid fifty year run that completely reshaped our world. But that end unleashes lots of new opportunities. | | |
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 | The Economist |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| My father once told me that you could often gauge the potential success of a great idea by how many people it infuriates at first blush. In that context, I believe authorizing states to sell green cards to a group of sponsored illegal immigrants for $10,000 apiece over the next few years is a potentially great idea. | | |
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 | Vox |
| An evidence-based approach to political panic. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| By unpacking the role that the music industry has played in fracturing this cultural divide, we can focus on what makes us the same. | | |
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 | Little White Lies |
| The incredible true story of a hero with a secret identity who battled a gang of masked villains. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| In 1944, Disney rereleased Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into theaters nationwide. The film had been a sensation during its original 1937 release — in addition to being a virtuoso technical achievement as the first feature-length animated film, it was also a critical darling and commercial smash. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| As a young journalist, Barney Hoskyns mingled with rock and roll’s brightest stars. Then heroin got the better of him. But it was finally confronting his all-consuming addiction that gave him the biggest high of all. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| A consortium of elite, well-paid fighters from across the former Soviet Union are training jihadis in Syria. Their business model could go global. | | |
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 | Hazlitt |
| Medical advances are turning once-fatal illnesses into manageable conditions, but what’s life like for patients whose existences become a liminal space between not-quite-healthy and not-quite-sick? | | |
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 | Lenny |
| The legendary supermodel on dancing down the runway, fighting racism in the fashion industry, and staying in the '70s. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| On Wednesday (Oct 12), CNN launched a mobile app to curate a more personalized feed of business news. Last week, it hired away a crack team of BuzzFeed reporters who’ve frequently broken stories this campaign through archival research of historical interviews and video clips. | | |
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 | io9 |
| The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back to the 1938 debut of Superman and the genre evolution that followed. But it’s possible to go back even further, connecting the Hulk to the ancient epic poem of Gilgamesh, and Batman to 17th Century cross-dressing crimefighter Moll Cutpurse. | | |
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