The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. |
| | Malik Isaac Taylor aka 'Phife Dawg' of A Tribe Called Quest. (fuseboxradio) | | | | | “The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
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| rantnrave:// I'm really hoping this isn't true. Lots of social media talk from those that knew him: PHIFE DAWG of A TRIBE CALLED QUEST has passed away. His was music was my soundtrack for so many years. Still is. This was the sound of NYC in the 90s. Night and day. A legend. We've lost a lot of musical greats this past year. He's right up there. Terribly sad... Didn't publish yesterday. Had a bad fall off the chairlift (would have been funny, but it was me) and a 24 hour flu took me out like a tsunami. I was so weak I couldn't get up to find the remote control to turn the TV off. I was subjected to the utter reckless stupidity of TRUMP and CRUZ discussing BRUSSELS. The GOP has sh** the bed like nothing I've ever seen. This election is the most important in my lifetime. I've written before about the importance of news media. THE FOURTH ESTATE. Journalists as advocates for us. To seek the truth from those that propose to lead us. While laid up I watched an interview with TRUMP and CNN's WOLF BLITZER. Trump just walked all over him. Didn't answer questions and Blitzer didn't push. We need them to push. Interviews with political candidates are not product selling press tours. They are to be vetted, pushed, interrogated. It's too polite. News media is failing us at a time when the overall trust in them is low. What a shame and tragedy for our society... Speaking without thinking isn't always honesty... My favorite subject: Millennials... My man VAN TOFFLER and his studio GUNPOWDER & SKY announce 'Eat, Brains, Love'... Interested to see if MEDIUM considers its homegrown publications successful as they spin out while asking other publications to join them... Happy Birthday to COURTNEY HOLT, JOE MARCHESE, BEN ZURIER, SCOTT LAMB and MAX VENTILLA. | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| When Google became Alphabet, the rationale seemed simple: that a company of companies can innovate faster than a single large beast. But that’s only the start. | |
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morning, millions of Sarah Palin fans woke up to an epic Facebook rant complaining that she and other Trump endorsers are being blacklisted by Washington insiders. This was apparently based upon some Breitbart News "reporting" which quotes some members of the conservative movement compiling a list of Trumpish apostates who will be denied membership in their club. | |
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"I had a papa who painted," Maya Widmaier-Picasso once said when she exhibited some of her father's paintings, drawings, and watercolors that she inherited after he died, in 1973. Her papa was Pablo Picasso. Her mother was Marie-Thérèse Walter, whom Picasso met one evening in 1927, when she was 17 and he was 45. | |
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Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a few white newcomers saw him as a menacing outsider? | |
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We must protect ourselves from that which we cannot see. | |
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In November 2013, more than 100 patients with cancer - including pancreatic, breast, liver and brain tumours - embarked on clinical trials involving BPM 31510, a drug discovered by an algorithm. | |
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Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them. McRae is the chief technology officer of Vizio, a company that sells more TVs -- and with them, remotes -- than any other company in America. And he thinks remote controls are very, very stupid. | |
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In the rehab capital of America, addicts are bought, sold, and stolen for their insurance policies, and many women are coerced into sex. | |
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Off Highway 33, the only paved highway connecting Cambodia's sleepy beach towns of Kampot and Kep, sits a small, red road marked by a faded signpost that reads Welcome to Peper Farm. My tuk-tuk driver misses the road entirely the first time around, and we swing across the barren highway to retrace our steps. | |
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FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board. DONALD TRUMP: New building. Yes this is very nice. Good luck with it. RYAN: Thank you... We've heard you're going to be announcing your foreign policy team shortly... | |
| These always-on celebrities should not be surprised when their credibility is questioned, and journalists attempt to sort out what is real and what is fake. That’s our job, and we intend to pursue it both in the courts and on the page. | |
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Andy Grove died yesterday. He is widely considered the greatest CEO in tech history. Grove's remarkable backstory certainly plays a role in his reputation. | |
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WADING RIVER, N.Y. -- The white jersey with the dirt stains and dark, gold-trimmed No. 54 is the first thing that catches your eye as you step into the teenager's bedroom. It hangs from a curtain rod above a window with the blinds drawn as the boy's mother explains the jagged seams snaking up and down and across the body of the shirt. | |
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We are in the midst of a generational ideological struggle to distinguish Islam as a faith from the political ideology of Islamism. | |
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Techno is a thread in Europe that can bring people together, and be a lingua franca. That phenomenon can earn detractors and champions alike; the common currency threatens to devolve into sameness. But one thing I've found looking beyond centers like Berlin: there's extraordinary talent on the horizon, answering to the beacon capital techno cities. | |
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Precision medicine sounds like an inarguably good thing. It begins with the observation that individuals vary in their genetic makeup and that their diseases and responses to medications differ as a result. It then aims to find the right drug, for the right patient, at the right time, every time. | |
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"Something in modern life is undermining mental health," Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, wrote in a recent paper. Specifically, something is undermining young people's mental health, especially girls. | |
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The funniest man alive on his heavenly film's 25th anniversary: "I got a letter from a parent who said their kid memorized the whole movie." | |
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I'm Dave Gibson. I'm 38 years old. I'm currently employed as a processing technician for the Library of Congress Moving Image Section working in the library's Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. Part of my duties include working with the videogame collection. | |
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