The pen is mightier than the sword, but only in retrospect. At the time of combat, those with the swords generally win. | | | | Happy Birthday to Stevie Wonder. Madison Square Garden, New York City, March 25, 1974.
(Larry C. Morris/New York Times Co./Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The pen is mightier than the sword, but only in retrospect. At the time of combat, those with the swords generally win.”
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| | rantnrave:// STEVIE WONDER is living proof of good in the world. Listen to him all day long... Never been a huge fan of TV show movies after they're canceled. Some reinventions and spoofs are fine, but most have happened too long after the series has ended and don't reinvent for the big screen and thus they're past their prime. And mentally, it's often a weird experience if it's the same cast and storylines. You expect them to be on the small screen. It happened to me with the ENTOURAGE movie. Though to be fair, I liked the show so much, the movie grew on me. DOWNTOWN ABBEY is getting the movie treatment too. Loved the show. But, a movie? I'll bite. What's the narrative? How exciting can a movie about an estate sale be? Will I go? Yes. One name. MAGGIE SMITH... This isn't fake news. These are the transcripts of some major interviews with PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. This ain't no commentary. He said these things. MediaSET: "Trump: The Transcripts"... Bravo! Bravo!... How many times can one person watch BLUE CRUSH? I think I'm past 100. And let's be honest, INTO THE BLUE too. Same director, JOHN STOCKWELL (aka COUGAR from TOP GUN)... The GOP looking very VICHY these days... Does anyone know EVANTUBEHD's manager? ... AMAZON PRIME VIDEO fan with an APPLE TV? Good news ... Happy Birthday to AMANDA CUTTER BROOKS, ETHAN BEARD, MICHAEL ALEX, PAUL GREENBERG, STEVE MUMMOLO, DAVID AARON, and BRIAN GARRITY. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Legal experts size up the Comey firing. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The film “Get Out” is the latest horror blockbuster in an eight-year run of lean, inventive films from the Hollywood producer. | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| "One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car." That happened in 2015. Now to put that fact in context, compare this to 2004, when DARPA sponsored the very first driverless car Grand Challenge. Of the 20 entries they received then, the winning entry went 7.2 miles; in 2007, in the Urban Challenge, the winning entries went 60 miles under city-like constraints. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| Fashion visionaries are using 3D printing to create mind-bending textiles that are nearly impossible to wear. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| If this is swept under the rug, we take one giant step toward the authoritarianism Trump has always threatened. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| For 15 years, the animation studio was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| A document uncovered by "The Daily Beast" shows that Soviet mole Kim Philby was hampering his British intelligence colleagues in their efforts to defeat the Zionist movement. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at Facebook, on the future of the platform, connectivity, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. | | |
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 | Science |
| Surveys in German nature reserves point to a dramatic decline in insect biomass. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Remembering "the Colombian Bruce Dickinson" who survived the drug wars and inspired a generation of South American metalheads. | | |
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 | Seeking Alpha |
| Long-term deflationary forces are pushing down long-run growth, inflation, and interest rates. This challenges how high central banks can raise rates in the future and how effective monetary policy can be over time when it comes to combating down-cycles. This also brings down the long-run returns of asset prices. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| "The Fifth Element" 20th anniversary retrospective. How Luc Besson staged a brilliant visual assault that only got better with time. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| As the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia spirals into chaos, one man has found himself at the center: Sergey Kislyak. No wonder everyone from Jeff Sessions to Jared Kushner has had a hard time remembering meeting with the Russian ambassador. But who is Kislyak? And what does he know? | | |
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 | Wired |
| Vikingmaiden88 is twenty-six years old. She enjoys reading history and writing poetry. Her signature quote is from Shakespeare. I gleaned all this from her profile and posts on Stormfront.org, America’s most popular online hate site. I also learned that Vikingmaiden88 has enjoyed the content on the site of the newspaper I work for, the "New York Times." | | |
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 | The Pudding |
| Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves. | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Emmy Award–winning comedian Aziz Ansari to discuss shooting the second season of 'Master of None' in Italy, taking intense Italian lessons, directing modern Woody Allen moments, improvising scenes in auditions, hosting 'SNL' for the first time, shooting the 'Otis' video with Kanye and Jay Z, Kanye and Jay's humorous side, and more. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| To celebrate the director’s cut of "Heat," Vulture talks to Michael Mann about the film’s legacy 22 years later. | | |
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 | WNYC |
| Like many retailers, J. Crew is fighting a mighty foe - the Internet. | | |
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| Wired |
| In February 2016, Two months after Rizwan Syed Farook killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, FBI director James Comey spoke before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss the global threats facing the US. “The growing use of encryption,” Comey testified, was “overwhelmingly affecting law enforcement.” | | |
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 | Mother Jones |
| After six-plus grueling years, the convicted leaker gains her freedom on May 17. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| Make yourself a harder target. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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