It's a waste of time to try to turn Pinocchio into a real President. The focus needs to be on the Geppettos and legislators around him. | | | | | Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross in Black-ish (ABC) | | | | |  | “It's a waste of time to try to turn Pinocchio into a real President. The focus needs to be on the Geppettos and legislators around him.”
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| | rantnrave:// Was going through my TWITTER feed last night when I saw this post from THE NEW YORKER's TV critic EMILY NUSSBAUM. Her kids love THE MARTIAN. Seeing it for the third time. Great movie. I loved it too. HOLLYWOOD popcorn at its finest. Beyond the obvious amazing things, I think children also liked the movie for another reason. For almost half the film, MATT DAMON talks directly into the camera as he records his dilemmas. I have a private media and technology focus group. It consists of three highly skilled and opinionated panel members, my 2 nieces and nephew. I once asked my 7 year-old niece AMELIE (aka AMELICIOUS) why she loved YOUTUBE so much. Her answer? "Because they speak directly to me." Kids get right to the point and many of those kids loved that movie because like their favorite YouTube stars, Matt Damon as MARK WATNEY spoke directly to them. Wonder if HOLLYWOOD agrees and if it will effect how movies are made... How many of your friends have been "grandfathered in"? Would you be friends with them if you met them today?... In view of the TRUMP presidency, people are aligning shopping habits with political beliefs. Read about recent retailer boycotts, which companies have been affected, and why people are choosing to buy—or not in our new REDEF FashionSET: "#GrabYourWallet and Consumer Boycotts"... After a short beautiful day of skiing I need someone to crack my back list this... The WSJ report that JARED KUSHNER met with TIME WARNER exec GARY GINSBERG to complain about CNN coverage is upsetting and chilling whether Jared agrees or is just the messenger. I'm glad that CNN's JEFF ZUCKER is standing tall and their teams are doing great work. The same support from their bosses at TIME WARNER and I imagine AT&T (as deal is pending) as well. They won't be bullied. It's likely just the beginning. They're doing their jobs. The administration should focus on killing the mean they spew each day. Vilifying a made-up monolithic media conspiracy and respect and answer critics. The relationship by definition is adversarial. That's how the FOURTH ESTATE works. The hateful strategy is old and as POLTICO's JACK SHAFER says: "What Trump has yet to realize is that while short-term gains can be reaped from attacking the press... in the long run yelling at the press only focuses the public’s attention on the very reporting the yeller wants erased. It also invigorates reporters, and makes them feel important." | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Ringer |
| Projections about the box office future of China - and Hollywood reactions like ‘The Great Wall’ - may be shortsighted | | |
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 | Slate |
| David Frum has emerged as a leader of the Republican resistance in the months since President Donald Trump's election. On The Gist, he shares his dismay that the disparate forces opposing the Trump administration can't seem to get over old squabbles. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| After bringing us Pong and Chuck E. Cheese's, the legendary entrepreneur built a startup factory that tackled 21st-century ideas with 1980s tech. | | |
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 | Benedict Evans |
| There's a pretty common narrative that Google & Facebook have a lot of control of the internet, in that they choose where you go and what you see. While this is true in an obvious sense, it also misses something important: Google and Facebook don't have fundamental control over what's actually in your search results or your news feed. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| Inside Silicon Valley’s mad race to sell your crap better. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| Recently, Vitaliy Husar received results from a DNA screening that changed his life. It wasn’t a gene that suggested a high likelihood of cancer or a shocking revelation about his family tree. It was his diet. It was all wrong. | | |
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 | Reason.com |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Mark Zuckerburg's manifesto offers a vision of social dystopia. | | |
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| Fast Company |
| Neuroscientist and author of This Is Your Brain On Music Daniel Levitin talks about information overload. | | |
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 | Shane Snow’s Blog |
| 58,000 mental health professionals say Donald Trump is too unstable to be president. Here’s a deep dive into the diagnosis and what could happen because of it. | | |
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 | Little Hippie |
| The womenswear line Nasty Gal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2016, the same day half the nation mourned the evaporated hope of a first female presidency. I know I’m not alone in wondering whether founder and self-proclaimed Girlboss Sophia Amoruso can still claim her title now. I believe the answer is yes, but ultimately that’s up to her. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| It’s been three days since Allison Williams dyed her hair blond. Before then, she’d spent the entirety of her 28 years as a brunet. Sitting at a booth encased by mirrored walls, she’s still startled when she catches a glimpse of her reflection. | | |
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 | TIME |
| How Silicon Valley is trying to hack its way to a much (much, much) longer life | | |
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 | New Republic |
| The U.S. government has enlisted powerful informants in the past without difficulty. Here's why. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| Once a cursed project, the tiny feature has had a huge effect not only on the site, but on us. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Unending love and appreciation is the least we can offer pioneers like Big Mama Thornton and Tina Turner. | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| What makes a person magnetic and why we should be wary. | | |
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 | MUNCHIES |
| Meeting the man who lives below the frosted tips, and discovering why a little bit of him lives in all of us. | | |
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 | Microsoft |
| Responding to the rise in nation-state cybersecurity attacks This year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco brings the world’s security professionals together to discuss cybersecurity at a critical time. The past year has witnessed not just the growth of cybercrime, but a proliferation in cyberattacks that is both new and disconcerting. | | |
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 | The Texas Tribune |
| Texas Tribune reporters talked to three convicted traffickers to try to understand the power they wield over victims and the attraction of what they call "the lifestyle." Here they are in their own words. | | |
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 | Poynter |
| For populists on both sides of the Atlantic, "expert" is now an expletive, a synonym for out-of-touch elitists swindling the common man. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| When it premiered in the United States a decade ago, "Planet Earth" was a bona fide phenomenon. On Saturday, an equally lavish sequel, "Planet Earth II," debuts. | | |
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