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Rutger Hauer (RIP) and Sylvester Stallone in "Nighthawks" (1981).
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Thursday - July 25, 2019 Thu - 07/25/19
rantnrave:// Good to be back, I've missed REDEF, writing, curating, and you... While many in "HOLLYWOOD" obsess over the coming streaming video wars, the newest, most interesting streaming media battle is in video gaming. Many expect cloud delivery of gaming, led by GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and SONY, will lead to a massive expansion in industry value – with the number of gamers growing into the billions, and gaming displacing much of the time currently allocated to TV. Entertainment is a business of minutes. In our newest REDEF Original, MATTHEW BALL, with an assist from YOICHI WADA, long-time SQUARE ENIX CEO (maker of FINAL FANTASY, TOMB RAIDER, etc.), break this down. They see long-term opportunity outside Capital-G “Gaming,” but see only modest growth potential in the category itself. Why? The answer is in the history of gaming and TV – and it tells you a lot about the future of both. Learn from these two in "The Mirage of Cloud Gaming (And How to Reach the Oasis)"... It isn't just about plastic bottles and litter. Music festivals are paying attention to everything from what kind of tent you bring to what brand of glitter you wear, and other corners of the business are starting to watch their carbon footprints, too. Are they doing enough? MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS explores in MusicSET: "Green Days: The Music Biz Tackles the Environment"... BILL CLINTON could read a book, do a crossword puzzle and negotiate a trade deal—at the same time. One of BARACK OBAMA's strategies for winning primaries was playing basketball on the day of each one. If the WHITE HOUSE walls could talk, this is what they'd say. "Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential Oral Histories"... You know what I love? Let's say someone asks you to help with a favor that takes time. And you do it, only to find they asked someone else and wasted my time. Yeah, I love that... Happy Birthday ZANDER LURIE, CRAIG HUNEGS. BRIAN CELLER. LARS MURRAY, MICHAEL MADNICK, and CORY TREFFILETTI.
- Jason Hirschhorn, curator
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REDEF
REDEF Media ORIGINAL: The Mirage of Cloud Gaming (And How to Reach the Oasis)
by Matthew Ball
Cloud game delivery and 'Netflix of Gaming' are the big new 'things' in media today. But they're unlikely to deliver the player or playtime growth that many expect.
Lawfare
Mueller on Trump: Everything the Special Counsel's Report Says the President Did, Said or Knew
by Hadley Baker and Mikhaila Fogel
For those who want to figure out what Mueller has said about Trump, here is a list: all of Trump’s actions as detailed in the Mueller report.
Narratively
The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket
by Caroline Rothstein
My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having--and losing--a superpower.
Hakai Magazine
Wasted
by Sasha Chapman
Our global food system discards 46 million tonnes of fish each year. Why?
Esquire
Stan Smith: The Man Who Became A Shoe
by Finlay Renwick
How Stan Smith went from a "decent" tennis player to the most popular trainer on the planet
The Ringer
How the ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Were Born
by Alan Siegel
The story of Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge fantasy as seen through the eyes of the ragtag crew he created to take down the Nazis.
Pitchfork
How Long Does It Take to Make a Classic Album?
by Ann-Derrick Gaillot
From D’Angelo’s infamously slow creative pace to Frank Sinatra’s rapid-fire release schedule, our expectations of artists’ output have always been in flux.
Krebs on Security
What You Should Know About the Equifax Data Breach Settlement
by Brian Krebs
Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here's a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for you, and what it says about the value of your identity.
Vox
The Amazon dilemma: how a tech powerhouse that fulfills our every consumer need still lets us down
by Jason Del Rey
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing - and changing us. Amazon is wonderful. Amazon is terrible. In 2019, both of these contradictory statements ring true.
Big Tech Show
Top of the polls: an interview with SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie
by Adrian Weckler and Zander Lurie
Zander Lurie is the boss of the world’s biggest online survey company.The Nasdaq-listed firm has over 17m users and is expanding all over the world.Lurie reflects on the process by which he became SurveyMonkey CEO after the tragic passing in 2015 of his friend Dave Goldberg, husband of Sheryl Sandberg and former chief executive of SurveyMonkey.
deke dasilva
On My Om
Media's Blame Game
by Om Malik
Earlier this week, the "New York Post" reported that the cover of the July 29th issue of Time magazine, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon, is "brought to you by Jimmy Dean" and features a front cover flap with "an ad on its underside 'celebrating 50 years of quality sausage.'" The decades have certainly been kinder to sausage than they have to magazines.
HuffPost
The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning
by Maxwell Strachan
"I don’t need a pair of Nikes. I need a 401(k)" -- and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.
CNET
Craigslist's founder wants to change the world -- starting with your news
by Jessica Dolcourt
Craig Newmark is a self-proclaimed nerd and reformed jerk. Now he's putting money behind his politics.
The United States Department of Justice
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Keynote Address at the International Conference on Cyber Security
by William Barr
"Of all that has changed over the last 30 years, cyber-related issues and cybersecurity may well be the most significant difference between my first tenure as Attorney General and this one.  Since taking office in February, I have spent a significant amount of time getting up to speed on the developments in this important area."
Detroit Free Press
Revealing the White Stripes: The inside story of the early years
by Brian McCollum
The duo propelled Detroit garage rock onto the global stage. Here's how they rose to stardom.
The Atlantic
The Stock-Buyback Swindle
by Jerry Useem
American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs--at the expense of everyone else.
Sports Illustrated
The broken case of David Ortiz
by Danny Gold
He might be the most beloved--and famous--person in the Dominican Republic. So why would someone shoot David Ortiz? And how could it be mistaken identity, as police have said? A visit to the island yielded few answers--but raised plenty more questions.
Next Reality
I Spent a Full Day Working in the Magic Leap One & Discovered the AR Office of the Future
by Adario Strange
Why do you need augmented reality? Because enterprise, they say. And while that's certainly true for several disciplines, there's still that mainstream use case hanging out there waiting for users to discover beyond the realm of enterprise and gaming.
The MIT Press Reader
A Dark History of the World's Smallest Island Nation
by Peter Dauvergne
A combination of greed, colonial mismanagement, and gross incompetence has brought Nauru, once dubbed ‘Pleasant Island,’ to the brink of collapse.
Andreessen Horowitz
The Search for the Secret Metal that Powers All Our Devices
by Kurt House, John Thompson, Connie Chan...
The exploration for and mining of certain metals has driven huge epochs of human civilization, from copper and iron to gold and diamonds.
The New Yorker
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
by Nathan Heller
The summer I was eighteen, I visited a parking lot forty-five minutes north of town and got behind the wheel for what I hoped would be the first real rite of my adulthood. I was tall, gangly, excitable.
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