The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. | | | | Can you believe what this dude must be thinking today? Remember real PsOTUS...
(Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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| | rantnrave:// Traveling home today, let's take bets on DELTA f***ing with bags. Even money is the line... Remembering real true decent PsOTUS... Ranting and raving will be back tomorrow. Along with my overview of SUNDANCE 2019... Stacked some extra knowledge nuggets today. Enjoy... Happy Birthday to MICHAEL WOLF, ANANDHAN SUBBIAH, and ALLEN LENARD. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Vox |
| Big pharma is partnering with influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices. | | |
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 | UK Parliament |
| Calls for: Compulsory Code of Ethics for tech companies overseen by independent regulator. Regulator given powers to launch legal action against companies breaching code. Government to reform current electoral communications laws and rules on overseas involvement in UK elections. Social media companies obliged to take down known sources of harmful content, including proven sources of disinformation. Further finds that: Electoral law 'not fit for purpose' Facebook intentionally and knowingly... | | |
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 | REDEF |
| For four years, REDEF has been charting how Netflix was misunderstood, what it was trying to achieve and what it would take to get there. A look back at all our pieces. | | |
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 | Bloomberg Businessweek |
| A new breed of high-tech real estate flippers is using algorithms (and a healthy dose of Silicon Valley venture capital) to buy at massive scale. | | |
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 | recode |
| Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and Fox, talks about the diminished power of movie studios and why "Netflix has won this game" on the latest Recode Decode. | | |
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 | VICE |
| Two years in, some people are still expecting one of his scandals to bring him down. I know better. | | |
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 | The Walrus |
| Psychedelics are a potential cure for everything from depression to addiction. Why did we ban these drugs in the first place? | | |
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 | Wired UK |
| Britain's techies still want to bring Brexit crashing down - and they're scrambling to build the tools to do so | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Inside a repurposed Twin Cities brewery, a massive aquaponics operation is ready to provide a locavore's dream: fresh produce and fish, raised indoors every month of the year | | |
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 | Popular Mechanics |
| The raddest new toys coming this year. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe tells '60 Minutes" about taking over for James Comey, starting investigations of President Trump, interactions with the president and his own firing. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| The plastic and packaging that comes with CDs and vinyl makes them seem worse for the environment, but the popularity of music streaming services may be polluting in other ways. | | |
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 | Wired |
| After sepsis forced the amputation of Sheila Avento's hands, an intricate transplant technique made her whole again. Then came the side effects. | | |
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| Vox |
| Or, "Layering, explained." | | |
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 | Longreads |
| In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what peopl… | | |
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 | Forbes |
| One of the great ironies of the "big data" revolution is the way in which so much of the insight we draw from these massive datasets actually comes from small samples not much larger than the datasets we have always used. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Everything you need to know about the mess that is America in 2019 can be explained by our deepening national belief that Bigfoot is real. | | |
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 | The Hustle |
| Free deals can turn even the most rational consumer into a crazed lunatic. But are they as good as they seem to be? | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| Philip Bump, Caitlin Dickerson, and Susan Hennessey join Brian Stelter to discuss Trump's recent setbacks and his "emergency" declaration. "It has consistently been a successful strategy for Trump, his appeal to emotion that he makes to his base," Bump says. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| A battle is looming over universal health care. Politicians and voters will have to decide whether the trade-offs are worth it. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Backstage on the Kiss End of the Road tour, a a two-year victory lap for the flamboyant hard rock quartet, which emerged 47 years ago as pop culture champions in platform boots and kabuki makeup. | | |
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| Wired UK |
| Can dating apps fix built-in bias? | | |
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 | Salon |
| A scholarly experiment to figure out how Spotify works (and how to trick it). Excerpted from "Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music" by Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau. | | |
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 | HuffPost |
| I connected with these American teens from a distant land in a way I hadn’t connected with anyone else in my real life. | | |
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 | Daily Dot |
| On Facebook, it isn't hard to stumble across hate speech. The site claims it is trying to police it, but in reality, it is doing a poor job. | | |
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