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| | | | | David Costabile as Mike 'Wags' Wagner in "Billions" (Showtime) | | | | | | | “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
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| rantnrave:// LOS ANGELES is slowly coming along as a tech hub and also a great, deep city. I've spent more time in SAN FRANCISCO as a result of being on the west coast for a stretch. Also a great city but changing. The transformation is remarkable. All the money pouring in. All the cranes and building. The nuttiness with all those self-proclaimed outsiders that are now the new insiders. It's pretty amazing. And filled with people that often crapped on NEW YORK or HOLLYWOOD. They made fun of agents (they often deserve it) and health freaks. Yet, I notice even bigger caricatures. And zero (and I mean zero) self awareness amongst many of the players. It's funny. Along with all the racing cars, paleo eating and CROSSFIT/P90 training. To be clear, I'm not hating here. It happens with all booms in all cities. And I smile at it. There's enough cheese to go around for all. And yes, LA has it's cheese too. When I see it, this is the soundtrack I hear in my head.... I look at my schedule and want to beat my head against the wall... Played hookie with ROB GOLDBERG on Friday and finally got to see DEADPOOL (warning: spoilers). I just loved the opening credits so much. So clever... A/V installers and programmers should be required to get a license... Still battling back from heart surgery. My concentration still not game grade. Curation eats what I have. And it's eating into my TV time. Just can't stick with a binge watch yet... Interesting reading: "Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer"... "Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics"... Happy Birthday DUSTIN FINER, DAN SCHNAPP, MEG LOWE, JOSHUA GRUSS and RITA GARG. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| One day in February 2015, a cheer rang through Zenefits' sales offices. The San Francisco-based company, which offers free benefits-management software in exchange for becoming the customer's insurance broker, had hit another sales milestone. Everyone stopped working. Office cabinets were opened, and giant bottles of Fireball whisky, tequila, and scotch appeared. | | |
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| He's young, Danish and the current star of the world's architectural scene, handling over 60 major projects including the Googleplex and Two World Trade Center | | |
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| Despite the best efforts of Egypt’s elite, the struggle for democracy has not been extinguished. | | |
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| Travis Kalanick, co-founder and C.E.O. of Uber Technologies. Next, Brian Chesky, co-founder and C.E.O. of Airbnb. We conclude with an excerpt of Charlie's earlier conversation with Tim Cook, C.E.O. of Apple. | | |
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| Last week saw a settlement in the closely watched fair use case of Equals Three v. Jukin Media. It's a good thing Equals Three settled the case. The jury would have ruled that all 48 videos at issue were not fair use, and damages would have been assessed accordingly. | | |
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| “Count” Victor Lustig was America’s greatest con man. But what was his true identity? | | |
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| SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - At first, Fan Hui thought the move was rather odd. But then he saw its beauty. "It's not a human move. I've never seen a human play this move," he says. "So beautiful." It's a word he keeps repeating. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. | | |
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| The "I Ching" has served for thousands of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one's personal future and the future of the state. | | |
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| When Donald Trump announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, my editors at the London-based pan-Arab newspaper "Al-Hayat," like most Americans, shrugged it off. "This is not serious; send something very small to page eight," I was told. | | |
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| Humans started drawing animals the moment they started killing them. The earliest recorded artworks-paintings on the cave walls of Lascaux in southern France-are from the Palaeolithic era, about 20,000 years ago. This was when they "developed weapons to hunt big game" and "sophisticated forms of hunting." It was the first mass extinction caused by human activity. | | |
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| Pebe Sebert speaks out on her daughter's 10 years as a "prisoner" under contract: "Luke almost destroyed us." | | |
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| A dermatologist finds fame among those for whom watching a pimple explode recalls the butterflies of a first kiss. | | |
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| Cows have long been farmed to fuel the fast food market. Now, by turning leather into a seasonal fashion, they are becoming part of fast fashion. Soon we will have to kill 430m every year. Lucy Siegle gets to grips with life without leather (well almost) | | |
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| If the National Center on Sexual Exploitation thinks that every entity from HBO to the Department of Justice is guilty of perpetuating evil, perhaps it needs to take a closer look at its core beliefs. | | |
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| The 1927 rule applies to everything but news. Yes, really Donald Trump gets twice as much news coverage as the other candidates for president. Cable networks broadcast his rallies and news conferences end-to-end, he's mentioned nightly on late night comedy shows, and he even hosted "Saturday Night Live" in November. | | |
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| Sometimes it's stolen for purposes of embarrassment or coercion, as in the 2015 cases of Ashley Madison and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The latter exposed highly sensitive personal data that affects security of millions of government employees, probably to the Chinese. | | |
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| Mark Wahlberg's career has taken some unexpected twists over the past three decades, but even the movie star acknowledges that his most recent turn is the most unusual yet. If someone had told him five years ago he would soon be starring in a reality TV series, "I would say that you were out of your mind, because the last thing I want to do is be on television," he says. | | |
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| Billionaire Thomas Tull is about to sell his comics-driven movie studio to China's richest man for a price rivaling what Disney paid for Lucasfilm. The result may be the future of Hollywood. | | |
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| Fifty years ago, when someone heard the word 'vice,' they may have thought about the seven deadly sins: envy, wrath, lust, pride, sloth, pride and gluttony. Twenty years ago, they may have thought of the genre-defining television show Miami Vice. Today, you might think about the $4 billion millennial media outlet, Vice Media. | | |
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| Late last year, the film "Exposed" made minor waves when its writer-director, Gee Malik Linton, took his name off the project in disgust over heavy editing that ruined his film. In Linton's version, Keanu Reeves and Mira Sorvino held peripheral roles in a story of ordinary obscenities unfolding from the perspective of a naive Latina woman. | | |
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