Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. | | | | Crooked Media's Jon Lovett makes me laugh and learn when I want to cry and hide due to the state of American politics.
(Amy E. Price/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
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| | rantnrave:// YOUTUBE is the treasure trove of live music performances. Nothing like it anywhere. MTV has some of the greatest in their vaults but never got their act together to own that area and now it's too late. If you've been to concerts around the world (or watch them on YT) you know that each local audience has its own energy and personality. My vote for the greatest audiences in the world has to go to ESTADIO ANTONIO VESPUCIO LIBERTI in BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA. Also known at RIVER PLATE STADIUM. The crowds are huge. They know every word. And they even sing the guitar parts. But as anyone who has ever been a rock star (or wanted to be one) knows that there's nothing like the vibe coming off the "crowd bounce." A swarm of humans jumping up and down in unison to your song. Go deep here with special attention to AC/DC... With a recent exodus of some of NYC's brightest design stars, the state of FASHION WEEK has been hotly debated. Critics say it's losing relevance. Proponents say it's a space for young and up-and-coming designers to shine. FashionREDEF's MINDY MEISSEN takes a look... My friend MEGAN QUINN asked about the best underrated movies on TWITTER. So I spammed her with lots of suggestions. Why? Because when they finally ask the question you know about, go long. Here are some of my picks. All great. 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE. CROUPIER. LAYER CAKE. THE BIG PICTURE (maybe the funniest take down of Hollywood ever). THE IN-LAWS (1978) (top 10 funniest movie ever made). ZERO DAYS. NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. PATTI CAKE$ (in theaters now). THE INFORMANT! (MATT DAMON's most underrated movie) ELECTION. AFTER HOURS. BRICK. SHALLOW GRAVE. THE LAST SEDUCTION. TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA. BUGGY MALONE. TAPS. FRESH. EMPIRE OF THE SUN. 25TH HOUR... Happy Birthday to HOSAIN RAHMAN, ABIGAIL KLEM, JEREMIAH ZINN, DANA SETTLE, and TOBY GUNDERSON. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Crooked Media |
| Chuck D of Public Enemy and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine join Jon to talk about the soundtrack of the Resistance. Then Jake Fogelnest, Cord Jefferson, and Brittani Nichols break down the latest news on Houston, Mueller's investigation, and Trump's attacks on the media. And activist Rubi Martinez talks about the threat facing undocumented young people as Trump considers rescinding DACA. Other notes: Jon bleeps one Game of Thrones spoiler, so no worries there. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| “Yes, Trump winning is a fluke, but the fact that the ground was soft enough for someone to succeed should tell us that there are big underlying forces that we don’t completely understand,” he says on the latest episode of the Inside the Hive podcast. | | |
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 | D'USSE Friday |
| On this special episode of Dusse Friday we have the legendary Gloria Carter discussing the Shawn Carter Foundation, meeting Obama and the story of how the song Smile came together. You don't want to miss this one so pour some Dusse and press play. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In ... | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| WPP is dealing with not only a changing advertising industry but a changing world, thanks to the Internet. Antitrust needs to change as well. | | |
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 | Salon |
| What’s to be done about "the most dangerous company most Americans haven’t heard of?" | | |
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 | recode |
| His startup, Aurora, is building software to make cars fully autonomous. | | |
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 | Granta |
| Erika Krouse on her work as a private investigator: ‘An escort service solicited by the university was providing prostitutes for football recruits.’ | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| The blue-jeans giant is trying to improve conditions in a famously low-paying industry. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| “America is in the middle of a sexual revolution and the rules are constantly changing,” says Vanessa Grigoriadis, who authored the recently released "Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus," noting that today’s music stars play a crucial role. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions | | |
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 | Vox |
| Ex-New Republic editor Franklin Foer on the expansive power of big tech. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| I fought foreign propaganda for the FBI. But the tools we had won’t work anymore. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| U.S.-backed forces are about to seize Raqqa -- the capital of the most wanted terrorist group on earth -- so why won't the government talk about it? | | |
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 | Quartz |
| It's time to learn the difference between design and mere style. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| A spike in the teen suicide rate parallels almost exactly the rise of smartphone use, especially among teen girls, who are the most vulnerable to cyberbullying and alienation. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The shuttering of the much-ridiculed Silicon Valley startup was the culmination of unsustainable costs, slow sales and unflattering media reports. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold - but no one knows if it still exists. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| As MTV reboots the ’90s concert series, some of its original producers share the stories behind now-classic ‘Unplugged’ performances. | | |
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 | LinkedIn |
| In Texas, a grocery chain is now inspiring memes. One goes like this: "State and federal resources are struggling to get into impacted areas. H.E.B.-- outta the way, we're coming." Another adds: "I’ll see your FEMA and Red Cross and raise you my Texas grocery store chain." | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| How can you go about finding ‘who you really are’ if the whole idea of the one true self is a big fabrication? | | |
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 | Variety |
| The mandate from Jeff Bezos is clear: Bring me “Game of Thrones.” That’s the word that has the creative community buzzing this week about a major strategy shift underway for Amazon Studios’ origina… | | |
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