Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know. | | | | "I think maybe I should go back to the hospital." Matt Damon is "The Informant!" A very underrated dramedy and performance. 2009.
(Warner Bros. Pictures) | | | | | | “Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
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| | rantnrave:// I remember one of the O.J. jurors (I think it was a juror) on television defending her verdict by saying there was no video of the murder. I rolled my eyes. Is video the truth? I remember my friend DAVE GOLDBERG telling me how machine learning and A.I. will both disrupt news by writing it in the next few years. I laughed. Is the written word truth? Well, no more laughing or rolling my eyes. Do you think those things mean truth? Well, researchers at UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON developed an algorithm that takes audio of someone talking and turns that into video of someone speaking those words. We're not talking about dead celebs hawking stuff or TUPAC concert holograms. This is the realest fake news. It's f***ing terrifying. CNN's FAREED ZAKARIA takes a look. The doomsday scenarios of this in our 24-7 mobile video world is just depressing. I take the threat of fake news seriously... Loving GAME OF THRONES. Big uptick in the pace last night. Tiny, vague spoilers ahead. No biggie. But I'm not sure I'd pay back the IRON BANK all at once. If the debt is cheap and you have capital reserves, why not put the money to work and make the payments? Not sure what the interest rate was here. Otherwise as GODRON GEKKO says: "the key to the game is your capital reserves, If you haven't got enough, you can't piss in the tall weed with the big dogs." And BRAN STARK reminds me of a few software developers I know. ARYA STARK is JOHN WICK-ing it up. Good episode. DRACARYS to you... Don't want to get fired? Don't want to get sued? Don't want to be publicly humiliated and disgrace yourself and family? It's quite simple. Don't sexually harass people... I watch a lot of video in my house. Mostly on wi-fi. As I move further away from the modem/router the speed gets worse. Been interested in mesh network solutions. My friends HUNTER WALK and MICHAEL SIPPEY suggested EERO. CEO NICK WEAVER generously sent me the system. It's doubled the download speed immediately. The setup is stellar. The best out-of-box experience I can remember or maybe ever. In fact, I waited a week to install thinking it would be this involved thing. I hooked up 3 rooms in less than 10 minutes total. Highly recommend it and the app is fantastic... You think you know brunch? Think again... Saw JOHN MAYER perform at THE FORUM in LA. First, the sound there is stellar, it was my first time. Second, Mayer is an exceptional musician. Not fair to call him talented. Too easy. You don't play that well if you're just talented. You need to work at it every day forever. Don't believe me?... Happy Birthday to NEIL BLUMENTHAL, CASSIAN ELWES, MIKE ANGUS, KEVIN SMOKLER, NICHOLAS BROWN, ADAM PALMINTERI, RACHNA BHASIN, BEN GOLDMAN, MARY CORIGLIANO, JASON PORT, RICHARD CUSICK, ERIK LUFTGLASS, EDDIE DALVA, and DAMIAN MANNING. Belated to JOHN DIETZ. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Patreon is still tiny compared to Kickstarter, but it’s rapidly growing. Half its patrons and creators joined in the past year, and it’s set to process $150 million in 2017, compared to $100 million total over the past three years. The company has raised $47 million in funding, most recently with a $30 million round in January 2016. | | |
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| At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company's preferred 'metric' when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month. It is hard to grasp just how extraordinary that is. | | |
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| The NBA legend, who once faced withering criticism after he converted to Islam and changed his name, argues that NFL players need to step up in solidarity and defend an outspoken black quarterback fighting for social justice and a job. | | |
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| Bill Gates. Mysterious deaths. IBM trying to act like a nimble startup. This story has it all! | | |
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| Millions of bananas arrive every week in New York City. It takes a lot to get them from the boat to the bodega. | | |
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| Artificial intelligence is likely to become more powerful than humans some day. Most superintelligent systems will by default develop instrumental subgoals that conflict with human interests. This could have catastrophic consequences. If we don't actively work on control mechanisms and safety of AI systems, this will most likely pose an existential risk to humanity. | | |
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| Throughout the Western world, the political 'Left' is in disarray. It is fragmented, rudderless and lacks a coherent plan to stem the tide of 'populism', nationalism and xenophobia. Identity politics and questions of religion have done much to fuel both the Right's xenophobic tendencies, and the Left's fragmentation. | | |
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| It’s called the World Famous Suicide Race, a harrowing horseback contest between Native American riders in Washington’s most infamous rodeo. This year, one teenager has four days to defend a way of life and keep a family legacy alive. | | |
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| Not only do Title Sequences tell you the name of the film and the stars, they can also set the tone and mood and put you in the right frame of mind to experience the film or TV show to come. Explore the history of the title sequence and how they've evolved along with business of filmmaking over the past century. | | |
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| Progressives have been dreaming of a government-run healthcare system for over half a century. Why can’t they get it done? | | |
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| On April 22, 1981, an Ohio teenager named Randy Kobman skipped school to go to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds slugger George Foster fouled a pitch from Gaylord Perry into the grandstands behind home plate. | | |
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| The new chief of staff’s biggest disciplinary challenge: fighting Trump White House lies | | |
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| Streaming calls and music straight to cochlear implants can empower those with hearing loss-and maybe, one day, everybody. | | |
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| “Trump’s remarkable personality mix contributed to all of this achievement and success.” | | |
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| In what one observer called "weaponized" sexual harassment, members of a Facebook group called Marines United crowdsourced thousands of images of hundreds of naked servicewomen, including selfies, creepshots, and intimate photos. | | |
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| Molly Bernard -- who plays Lauren, a fluid pansexual -- and creator Darren Star talk to THR about the groundbreaking character on the TV Land series. | | |
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| Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington's last days were marked by both hope and heaviness. An inside look at singer's life and death. | | |
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| Cycling, running, and obstacle course racing are dominated by white-collar workers. Sure, the extra money makes competing a little more feasible, but researchers are starting to understand that there's something psychological as well that draws these types of people to painful endurance sports. | | |
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| Time Warner, the empire that was once poised to conquer both Hollywood and the web, is about to fade into a mere corporate subsidiary, reminding industry players yet again that the ground is shifti… | | |
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| The latest show from the Game of Thrones creators is to imagine a world in which slavery persists, causing widespread anger on social media | | |
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| A promising new startup says it can make high heels comfortable. But it's battling physics and physiology. | | |
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| Forty years after stumbling into sports law, the prominent antitrust attorney is fighting to reshape college sports -- and get players paid. | | |
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| All week long, Vulture is exploring how dystopias have been imagined in popular culture. Dystopias are currently having a moment. In the wake of the presidential election that brought Donald Trump to power, George Orwell's 1984 has become a best seller. | | |
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