Incompetence should not be rewarded with blind loyalty. As long as I have my eyes, I will use them. | | | | Winter is coming. And so is House Hirschhorn. Courtesy of Richard Plepler and Quentin Schaffer.
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| | rantnrave:// I have absolutely nothing to rantnrave about today. I just relaxed this weekend and turned off. Which is likely why I am in good mood. All I thought about was the sun, walks, movies, tv, and how to choose wisely in life. I shall return tomorrow. In the meantime, the mind snacks I found for you will make you a JEOPARDY champion or think tank star. That said, I was very happy with last night's GAME OF THRONES episode. More reorgs going on in the SEVEN KINGDOMS than an old media company. Oh, and I watched the first 2 episodes of MANHUNT: UNABOMBER. Mini-series coming to DISCOVERY. Congrats to friends involved. Director GREG YAITANES and producer JOHN GOLDWYN. So far so good. Definitely ups the game on what you're used to from the network. Strong scripted...Did you know that KANYE WESt met his future wife making his show ALLIGATOR BOOTS? Or that Judge Ito requested MELROSE PLACE videos for the jurors during the O.J. trial? Take a peek behind the curtain with the creators, casts and crews of some of TV's most iconic shows in MediaSET: "TV Show Oral Histories: Season Three". TWIN PEAKS, SOUTH PARK and more... Happy Birthday to HABIB KAIROUZ, CHRISTOPHER BARRY, SHAUL NAKASH, and MARSHALL HEYMAN. Belated to JON LANDAU, KRISTIN JONES, and AUSTIN SCHUSTER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Computational Propagnda Project |
| Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations created, often 8ith public money, to help define and manage what is in the best interest of the public. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| We spoke to more than two dozen comedians who helped Scott Aukerman’s ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ podcast get to 500 episodes. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Peak TV has brought in a flood of global acting talent. It’s the job of dialect coaches like Samara Bay to help them all sound right. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| What it can -- and cannot -- do for your organization. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible. | | |
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 | The Wrap |
| VR Special Report: "The big elephant in the room is: How do you monetize this?" one analyst tells TheWrap | | |
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 | ProPublica |
| The Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned millions of acres, and left Americans to guess at the threat to their health. | | |
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 | Vox |
| As Simpson is granted parole, America sees him -- and itself -- differently, thanks to FX’s "The People v. O.J. Simpson" and ESPN’s "O.J.: Made in America." | | |
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 | War on the Rocks |
| I realized Hollywood has it all wrong. The future of military robotics doesn’t look like "The Terminator." It looks like "Planet Earth II." | | |
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 | LinkedIn |
| Over a recent weekend, I enthusiastically binge-watched Amir Bar-Lev's newly released epic four-hour documentary on the Grateful Dead called Long | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Even hardcore devotees disagree, though many acknowledge there’s something profoundly spiritual about catching waves-a feeling scientists attribute to the power of being in the water. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The Atlantic is ‘most vital when America is most fractured.’ Good thing it soars today. | | |
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 | Curbed |
| Advocates and cities see challenges and opportunities in tiny homes’ path to the mainstream. | | |
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 | Grub Street |
| “The economics of a deli are really hard,” Jake Dell says. “Meat goes up, guess what? I lose money.” | | |
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 | The Verge |
| When Andy Weir first began publishing "The Martian" on his website, he had little inkling that it would become one of the year's best-known, most celebrated science fiction novels, or a best-seller later adapted into a popular, Oscar-nominated thriller starring Matt Damon. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Certainly there have been football films that have been hugely influential, and which have left an indelible mark on the culture of football fandom. But arguably none have gone as close to the bone as "Goal!" with the way it embedded itself within the football DNA, rousing the undying optimist that exists in some dormant form inside every football fan. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Amid box-office uncertainty, the outside money propping up studios becomes a question mark as Texas-based LStar Capital bails on Sony, Village Roadshow suffers several misfires and Paramount's China backer is under pressure. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| It's time to learn the difference between design and mere style. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Fewer than half of Americans say they personally know a Muslim person--which means many draw their opinions of Muslims from news coverage that is overwhelmingly negative. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| ‘We recorded it in a jampacked Minneapolis club. It was sweaty and smoky and vibey as hell.’ | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| A troupe of popular young comics avoids mixing humor and politics in Rwanda. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, discusses the Trump presidency and Trump's relationship with the media with CNN's Brian Stelter. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| We consider fewer than 13 reasons why. | | |
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