America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. | | | | Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson in 'Hard Candy'. 2005.
(Lionsgate) | | | | |  | “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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| | rantnrave:// In all the years I've spent in and around Los Angeles, I'd never been to AMOEBA MUSIC. Sort of shocking given my love of music. My friend COURTNEY HOLT gave me the tour last night. I grew up during the 80s in NYC. I spent hundreds of hours in the aisles of TOWER RECORDS, SMASH COMPACT DISCS, OTHER MUSIC, DOWNSTAIRS RECORDS, and many more places. I loved diggin' in the crates. Flipping through new music and talking to employees or customers about what to listen to and buy next. My own private HI FIDELITY. That was the comments section. Downloads and streaming are great, but not the same. Not trying to be the guy complaining that things were better back then. But there is something to be said for anticipation and a world that wasn't on demand and required effort. Things I miss. Album covers and liner notes, remember those? Posters all over the place like a JOHN HUGHES-inspired bedroom. Loved it. I didn't buy any music but I did get a BIG LEBOWSKI lunchbox for my friend. I'll be spending an entire Saturday there very soon... I love TWITTER. It's weathered plateaus and other storms due to fate, world events or just plain simplicity. Lots to be done to improve its UEX and business fortunes. But I love it. So much more to do on interests, onboarding, news, and video. It's not about being bigger than FACEBOOK and it certainly isn't YAHOO. I'm not sure why product rolls out at the pace that it does, but if you say they're over, history would prove you wrong. Curation, opinion, debate, discovery, and pulse... It's not hard to have principles. It's sometimes very hard to handle the people that don't respect your principles. A life is often measured as a sum of your choices. Some of those choices, those moments, those big ones. Think hard first. Be mindful when your principles are being tested... If you only heard one story. You didn't hear the whole story... Enjoy your weekend... Happy Birthday to BRIAN ROLAPP, PETER ELKIND, STEVE OLECHOWSKI, ALEX BLUM, DAVID WEINBERG, and MARY KALLAHER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Shorenstein Center |
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 | The Washington Post |
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 | Slate |
| Consuming dystopian science fiction has quickly become a popular coping mechanism for Americans trying to adapt to (or resist) the sometimes-dark reality of 2017. Immediately after the Trump inauguration and the White House's embrace of "alternative facts," George Orwell's 1984 shot to the very top of Amazon's best-seller list. | | |
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| If you’re Steve Jobs, you can wait for your product to be perfect. But there are almost no Steve Jobs’ in the world. For the rest of us, If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released it too late. Imperfect is perfect. Why? Because your assumptions about what people want are never exactly right. Most entrepreneurs create great products through a tight feedback loop with real customers using a real product. So don’t fear imperfections; they won’t make or break your... | | |
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| Food pantries and banks don't go nearly far enough, writes Andy Fisher in his new book, "Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups." | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| What if we could expand ecstasy, reduce stress and lift depression, all by delaying and extending orgasm? | | |
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| They have disrupted traditional industries with strategies and tactics heretofore unknown and unimagined - even unimaginable - by traditional warriors. | | |
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| Lavish London mansions. A hand-painted Rolls-Royce. And eight dead friends. For the British fixer Scot Young, working for Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic meant stunning perks – but also constant danger. His gruesome death is one of 14 that US spy agencies have linked to Russia – but the UK police shut down every last case. A bombshell cache of documents today reveals the full story of a ring of death on British soil that the government has ignored. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| Here is the story of how the buzzword came to be, from some of those who helped popularize it. | | |
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 | ESPN FC |
| Agent Jonathan Barnett made Gareth Bale his millions. Now, he "can walk into any club in the world, and they all know me." | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Dexter Filkins of "The New Yorker" on his profile of Defense Secretary James Mattis. | | |
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 | Variety |
| I’ve only known one other songwriter whose songwriting has launched so many companies and created careers for so many other people — hundreds of people — and that man was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame tonight as a songwriter: Mr. Berry Gordy. | | |
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 | American Banker |
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| I remember getting off the bus a few blocks up from the Qalandia refugee camp, which is located in the West Bank and was established to house Palestinians who were displaced from their villages during the 1948 Palestine War. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| How the high-risk, high-reward extreme sport helps conquer your fear of the deep through meditation. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Did you start at the top or bottom? Clockwise or counterclockwise? | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Tottenham’s new stadium will have its own microbrewery, while the Atlanta Falcons new home will feature the world’s first 360-degree video wall - what else does the future hold for sports arenas? | | |
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 | Billboard |
| As voice-activation technology from Amazon, Google and Apple goes mainstream, labels are looking to adapt to -- and capitalize on -- the latest frontier. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| A reality-TV producer explains. | | |
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