It's like we're not even watching basketball, it's the f***ing X-Men! Super Team! | | | | Rick's Café Americain in Casablanca. 1942.
(Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It's like we're not even watching basketball, it's the f***ing X-Men! Super Team!”
| - | Troy Carter, to me and Warriors co-owner Peter Guber |
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| | rantnrave:// MIKE "GOON" MCGINLEY requested a relatively positive missive from me today. He's and AOR kind of guy. Not hit-driven... As I mature (yes, relatively) I try to focus on simple pleasures. One of my greatest simple pleasures? Sitting in a hotel lobby in good club chairs shootin' the gift (been waiting 25 years to use that expression) with friends I love and/or admire. Discussing anything. I love a good impromptu salon and holding court. I'm in STOCKHOLM at the BRILLIANT MINDS conference. It's held at THE GRAND HOTEL and the lobby and bar have been filled with a very disparate, creative group of thinkers from all around the world with all sorts of acumen and backgrounds. Heaven from the club chair... A highlight of the conference thus far. A discussion between CROOKED MEDIA's JON LOVETT and MATTHEW FREUD on propaganda. I wanted it to go on for hours, it was just getting started. I learned about EDWARD BERNAYS. A fascinating character. About to be reading... I was looking at the SPOTIFY charts a little while back, it's quite remarkable. DRAKE. THE FUTURE. Drake and The Future. Literally, a large portion of the chart. I cornered my friend STEVE STOUTE in the bar yesterday afternoon. He's been in and out of the music business for a long time so I peppered him with questions. So the labels get a big f***in' check from services, right? How much do those artists get? And if you were either artist (or any big one), once you're established and delivered on your deal, why would you ever re-sign with a label? I'm sure label CEO's checks are getting bigger. But what about the artists. There is no industry without the music. And I also think artists should own their masters... My only issue with international travel to idyllic cities like STOCKHOLM? As my father would have likely asked: "How do you get the GOOGLE to stop speaking Swedish"... MLB’s Statcast is a breakthrough technology transforming what we know about—and how we play—baseball. It's changing the way teams evaluate players, how fans watch games on TV, and how hitters swing. SportsSET: "The Statcast Revolution"... I'd like to have a referendum on referendums. Hard enough to get things done during a term, let alone this nuttiness. Political greed does have some karma. I'm not a populist. I don't like mobs. Like bulls running off a cliff. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - WINSTON CHURCHILL... Happy Birthday to MICHELLE RUBELL, PETER CSATHY, LIZ HERON, DEBORAH ROLDAN, JOHNNY HAM, DOUG EVANS, GABI RUBIN DEVEAUX, FRED MCINTYRE, SCOTT KAMINS, MARK DORISON, CHRIS RUSSELL, and BILL CAMPBELL. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Can flyover country share the prosperity of Silicon Valley? The AOL billionaire is making it his cause | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| If Trump is going to disrupt world order, Merkel is well-positioned to respond. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| For years, Google has been digitising the world’s museums, making cultural artefacts accessible in extraordinary detail to millions of internet users. Now it’s turning to fashion. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| His alienating approach with Arab allies could further destabilize the region. | | |
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 | Wired |
| The first season of Westworld wasted no time in going from “hey cool, robots!” to “well, that was bleak.” Death, destruction, android torture--it’s all been there from the pilot onward. Then again, on a show about a theme park staffed with sentient robots--sorry, “hosts”--those outcomes are exactly what audiences have come to expect. | | |
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 | Quid |
| Using #NLP + big #data to classify and find under-the-radar #wine. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| A new report from the The National Domestic Workers Alliance offers a broad picture of the experiences of black women in the U.S., and aims to inspire the creation of programs that remove barriers to their economic success. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Games like "Papers, Please" and "Cart Life" are empathy exercises. Virtual experiences can have real-life impact. | | |
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 | Variety |
| On June 6, one year to the day after his move to Spotify was announced, Variety caught up with Carter as he was en route to LAX to catch yet another 11-hour flight to the company’s headquarters in Sweden — and he spoke at length not just about Secret Genius but also his first year at the company. | | |
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 | ESPN UK |
| A baseball only weighs 6 ounces, but it does a lot of damage when you're on the wrong end of a 90-plus mph fastball. Up close and personal accounts of being hit by a pitch. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud -- and gets rich doing it. | | |
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 | Nielsen Norman Group |
| Modal ads, ads that reorganize content, and autoplaying video ads were among the most disliked. Ads that are annoying on desktop become intolerable on mobile. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| While the economics of streaming royalties shake out, Spotify is investing in new ways to serve artists’ needs with data, fan-targeting promos, and the power of playlists. | | |
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 | Vice |
| At the end of the last millennium, HBO gave the green light to a prison drama with a difference, and television hasn't been the same since. | | |
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 | Poynter |
| In every one of her interviews for the editor in chief gig at 'The San Francisco Chronicle,' Audrey Cooper was clear about the thing that needed changing first -- the newsroom culture. “It was the first thing I talked about in all of my interviews,” said Cooper, now The Chronicle's editor in chief. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| When 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was killed by a police officer (and maybe even took a bullet for his brother), his high school football team did the only thing that felt right: play on. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Fidgetspin is a one-trick site, designed around a fadlikely to fade into obscurity before the year’s end. It lets visitors spin a virtual fidget spinner. No more, no less. Similar to sites like chihuahuaspin, tacospin, or leekspin, its enjoyment is brief, dependent on your discovery, and likely to disappear from your brain the second you click away. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| Microsoft, Sony, Valve, Ready at Dawn all have games in the works. | | |
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 | CityLab |
| Pittsburgh is trying to become an “inclusive innovation city" in an effort to spread the economic benefits of its growing technology sector to black residents. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A new book explores the dynamics of popularity, and the ways our high-school selves stay with us far beyond the teenage years. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The 42-minute limit is giving way to movie-style runtimes on 'Master of None,' 'The Americans,' 'The Leftovers' and 'Fargo' but not all writers will relish the free rein: "Just because you can make a show of any length doesn't mean you should." | | |
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 | A.V. Club |
| The Tennessee-based festival has become more than just a gathering for drugged-out camping and good vibes. | | |
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