As a way of avoiding dissonance and estrangement from valued groups, individuals subconsciously resist factual information that threatens their defining values. | | | | One of my favorite actors, Mark Strong, stars in "Deep State." MI6 agent goes back into the field in the Middle East to save his family.
(EPIX) | | | | |  | “As a way of avoiding dissonance and estrangement from valued groups, individuals subconsciously resist factual information that threatens their defining values.”
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| | rantnrave:// No rants and raves today. Just a few small random thoughts, but there is some great stuff to read and watch today... You know what I love? Being lectured on something I know by someone who doesn't. Especially when they're high-minded and without their own information... When my nieces and nephew misbehave I tell them I am resigning as uncle and getting kids from AMAZON PRIME. I show them these kids. I tell them they are astronaut's kids... People I want to meet: BEN MACINTYRE, NISHYA RAMAN, SARAH JEONG, IAN BREMMER, JAMES GUNN, MADELINE ALBRIGHT, NOEL GALLAGHER, JAMES CORDEN, ANDY COHEN, DAMON LINDELOF, JORDAN PEELE, EZRA KLEIN, KIM MASTERS, MAVERICK CARTER, DAN RATHER, SALLY QUINN, DAVID CHANG, ALEC BALDWIN, NATALIE PORTMAN, BEN SHAPIRO, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, and DAN RATHER. Yes, DONALD TRUMP will cause the murder of a U.S. journalist... Shenanigans around the leak of a lewd 11-year-old tape. Questions about accountability, second chances, and an incomplete conversation. "rantnraveXL: Thinking About Mistakes, Punishments, Redemption and Billy Bush"... What we wrote back in MAY about APPLE's challenge to Amazon Prime. It's been a year since Apple made its first original video hires and released its first original series, yet the company's strategy remains opaque and confusing. The most likely answer is one that will lead the company to reinvent not another device category, but itself. "Prime, Apple Prime: What's Next for Apple and What Does Video Have to Do With It? "... Happy Birthday to GREG COLEMAN, DAWN BRIDGES, FRITZ LANMAN, MARK GRAHAM, BRUCE GILLMER, ANDREW SIEGEL, THOM KOZIK, MICHAEL FOX, and BRENT SUDDUTH. Belated to SANG LEE, JONATHAN SHECTER, RENEE EDELMAN, JASON COHEN, SAMUEL SPIRA MEREDITH PERRY, FRAN HELMS, JIMMY SONI, RAZMIG HOVAGHIMIAN, MICHAEL FEINBERG, REID HOFFMAN, KEITH RITTER, and AMANDA FREEMAN | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Fast Company |
| How CEO Daniel Ek plans to beat Apple, Amazon, and Google at the music game. | | |
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 | Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. |
| Episode 130, Recorded on December 12, 1968 Guest: Muhammad Ali | | |
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 | Artificial Lawyer |
| After the financial crisis of 2008/9, the term ‘the New Normal’ was used to describe how corporate legal teams were suddenly pushing back on bills and demanding transparency, efficiency and project planning. After years of clients rarely saying no, with few really doubting the external firm’s ‘means of production’, something finally happened. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The message of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech on the contradiction of America’s just ideals and unjust realities endures. | | |
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 | nrc.nl |
| The tragic fate of the art stolen from Rotterdam. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Adverse selection will bite you if you’re not careful. | | |
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 | Medium |
| An ocean of ink has been spilled to describe how technology allows humanity to attend to its various needs and desires, which are summarized in Maslow's Pyramid below. In such proclamations, technology is treated as an autonomous entity, an ethereal force that guides human beings who shouldn't be bothered with higher-order social, economic and political questions. | | |
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 | The Public Domain Review |
| 500 years ago, a strange mania seized the city of Strasbourg. Citizens by the hundreds became compelled to dance, seemingly for no reason -- jigging trance-like for days, until unconsciousness or, in some cases, death. Ned Pennant-Rea on one of history’s most bizarre events. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In an excerpted chapter from ‘Conference Room, Five Minutes,’ Shea Serrano’s new digital collection of illustrated essays about ‘The Office,’ he takes us inside the Dwight Club | | |
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 | CityLab |
| The country needs to convince more couples to have children. But its biggest city is no paradise for parents. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| As NHS services struggle to cope, apps like Talkspace are gaining more and more traction -- but could they ever replace face-to-face therapy? | | |
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 | Vulture |
| At the end of the '60s, during a Rolling Stones show at Altamont, a violent incident involving Hells Angels, a gun, and a bystander unfolded -- the ideals of the decade were marred by an act of violence, and everything would change. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| What's your dark core score? | | |
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 | Billboard |
| In an excerpt from her memoir "Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry," the author recalls her harrowing experience working for Atlantic Records in a pre-#MeToo record industry. | | |
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 | NPR |
| As marijuana legalization spreads, police are asking for better tools to detect drugged drivers. Some police are now working with researchers to try to bring a THC breathalyzer to market. | | |
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 | Vice |
| The one-time cocaine kingpin turns 76 this week. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| They speak English. Their co-workers don’t. Inside a rural chicken processing plant, whites struggle to fit in. | | |
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 | Poynter |
| It looks like a Snopes fact check. It reads like a Snopes fact check. And on first glance, it looks like one of the outlandish fake news stories that ends up getting debunked. But the article - titled "FACT-CHECK: Did Kim Jong Un Really Invite Donald Trump To His Birthday party?" | | |
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 | How We Get To Next |
| Could fantastical plans for the cities of tomorrow solve the real problems of urban life? | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| In the so-called dime museums that lined the Bowery in the post-Civil War Big Apple, you could everything from bearded ladies to ‘cures’ for venereal disease. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Stopping to smell the flowers with the last great intellectual talk-show host. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| The last Golden Age of Television was also the Golden Age of television criticism, in the form of long, episodic reviews of almost every show imaginable. What did the form teach us? The great recappers of the era reflect. | | |
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