I really do love you even though you always come over here for brisket. | | | | Regina King, winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
(Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I really do love you even though you always come over here for brisket.”
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| | rantnrave:// When it comes to awards, I've always questioned what "best" means. Not last night. Do you know what's best? Racists and bigots had a really, really, really bad night at the OSCARS. F*** every last one of them infinitely + a GOOGLEPLEX. I embrace the reality that what "best" means and looks like is changing right before our eyes. The story, the actor, the artist, the technician and on and on. The nominees and the winners. I could say a lot of things that I don't like about the ACADEMY from the failed and tone-deaf changes (and in all fairness, the welcomed backtracks) to the way the telecast plays music over speeches encompassing a lifetime of work and dreams (what do they think we watch for?). But last night, if you believe in hard work and dreams, the results were clear and heartwarming. And since it's televised around the world, for a brief few hours, we actually showed the strength of diversity and ultimate acceptance of all people at a time when the politically venomous exports (words and images) have promoted traits of our country that I'm ashamed of. It's just a glimpse, but it was the "best"... Hard to beat RAMI MALEK's speech ... NETFLIX didn't win the best picture (it will soon, I'm sure) but it's bringing the world to the world, unlike any other media company. Stories from all over, in languages I don't speak, with actors I rarely recognize. And I love every single minute of it... If you're not all in you will fail. Slow or fast... I love seeded bagels. But sometimes a poorly made bagel will not have the seeds on both sides. That makes for a very uneven Sunday bagel. Enter my girl. There's one thing she will not leave the house without. What? TRADER JOE'S EVERYTHING BUT THE BAGEL SESAME SEASONING BLEND. Smart. No brainer. You make your bagel, with cream cheese and fixings. You put the seasoning on the cream cheese. Even seeded awesomeness back in action. Genius at its most simple. Each bottle costs $1.99 at the store. But try to buy it on AMAZON and you'll get fleeced. There is an entire grey-market entrepreneur set that is making a small fortune off my bagel seeds. Like this couple, experts in "retail arbitrage"... Who makes your life easier? Who picks up your slack in your shared responsibilities? Do you think they don't notice? They do. Maybe it's time to say thank you. And maybe it's time to say sorry and ask what you can do to make their life easier. They may make it look easy, but it's not and you're making their life harder. Or, maybe you're just that aloof and selfish. Think about it. I am... Hoping TUCKER CARLSON plays FROGGER in real life. Love this!... How my friend REGGIE FILS-AIME became a NINTENDO legend... Happy Birthday to MARK ARMSTRONG, ALEXANDRA BERGMAN, JEFFREY BECKER, and JON HEALEY. Belated to ANDY BERNSTEIN, JOSH BERNSTEIN, HOWARD BRAGMAN, JAMES MONSEES, ERIN GRIFFITH, KEVIN GAGE, ERIC ADELSON, GEORGE H. RUIZ, ANTHONY BONTRAGER, HALEY LIEBERMAN BINN, and MIKE GRECO. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Popular Mechanics |
| Two thousand miles away from the U.S. A-bomb tests in 1945, something weird was happening to Kodak's film. | | |
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| Todd Noy was said to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a towering figure in the online fan-fiction community. But he may have never existed. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue. The internet made it all possible. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it’s aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience. | | |
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 | DLDconference |
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| It's been a year since Apple made its first original video hires and released its first original series, yet the company's strategy remains opaque and confusing. The most likely answer is one that will lead the company to reinvent not another device category, but itself. | | |
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 | Money |
| 'I guarantee you're walking past profit every single day.' | | |
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 | Business Insider |
| In the absence of codified humanistic values within the big tech giants, personal experiences and ideals are driving decision-making. This is particularly dangerous when it comes to AI, because students, professors, researchers, employees, and managers are making millions of decisions every day, from seemingly insignificant to profound. | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard (a merger he engineered); it's one of only two video gaming companies in the Fortune 500, and the largest game network in the world. The company is responsible for some of the most iconic entertainment franchises, including "Call of Duty," "Candy Crush," "Overwatch," and "World of Warcraft" -- as well as its own professional esports league. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| “Mystery” toys that kids peel open and cast aside speak volumes about consumer culture. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| In the spring of 2004, the public perception was that Nintendo was in deep trouble. Going into the company's E3 presentation in Los Angeles that year, fans wondered which of the company's heroes might appear, in its time of need, to save it. Mario? Link? | | |
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 | Psychology Today |
| Expert advice for making tough decisions about relationships, jobs, and dreams. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| In their efforts to match the sweeping rhetoric of right-wing populism, progressives can sometimes get caught playing fast and loose with facts. | | |
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 | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo |
| An open letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica regarding Amazon. | | |
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 | Deadline |
| Ever since working on Spike Lee's "School Daze," costume designer Ruth E. Carter has reached a level of prominent figures in the industry including Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell and the iconic Edith Head (although, Carter will humbly say that it's not true...but it is). | | |
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 | Variety |
| What does it mean to “own” a game? In video gaming’s infancy, it meant scribbling your name on the back of a gray NES cartridge. Today, it could mean having a physical copy of a disc in a box or ha… | | |
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 | BuzzMachine |
| I've spent a worrisome weekend reading three documents from Europe about regulating the net: In all this, I see danger for the net and its freedoms posed by corporate protectionism and a rising moral panic about technology. | | |
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 | Medium |
| What happens when our dreams land us in a toxic environment? How should we reckon with the shifting of our priorities over time? Love alone is not a cure-all. | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| Jacob Weisberg, S. Mitra Kalita, and Charles Blow join John Avlon to discuss the "new normal" in which nothing is shocking anymore, including attacks against the media. "People consider the media the fourth estate, basically a fourth branch of government," says Blow, and because of that it's like "one branch of the government is attacking the other." | | |
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 | Mac Rumors |
| Hundreds of Apple employees were once rumored to be working on an electric car, but the project's focus has shifted to developing self-driving car software instead of an actual car. | | |
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 | PSFK |
| Creative managing director of FRCH design and architecture firm explains how it reinvented the homegoods retailer's store format, leaning into experiential and revamping checkout to enable a more engaging and streamlined customer journey. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Adam McKay, Danny Trejo, Dita Von Teese and others share memories of the iconic eatery where Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra and "Quentin F-ing Tarantino" have held court: "It's hard to find people who've never been there." | | |
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