People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. | | | | Set in a post-Jax Teller/Sons Of Anarchy world. Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the "Mayans MC" charter on the Cali/Mexi border.
(FX) | | | | |  | “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
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| | rantnrave:// Some of the smartest people in the world have started the tech platforms you're on. They are billionaires. They are revered. They consult with world leaders. They give money to charity. They want to change the world and they have. Many also act as if they're surprised with the negative effects their platforms. Their metrics for success and often their corporate culture are culprits. And company ethics often reflect those of the founder. FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, TWITTER, and other major platforms helped us to connect, entertain and learn. The benefits have been obvious. But now, so are the dangers. Engagement and revenue over well-being? Are we addicted? Election influence. Fake news. Bullying bots. Treating users like Pavlovian dogs. Do we understand the effects? Do the platforms' founders? Yes, they do and likely did. We explored this in REDEF TechSET: "The Downside of Social Media and Devices." One of the more sane and better arguments on the threats and need to change comes from ANIL DASH in this music-watch video from THE WASHINGTON POST. It's short and spot-on... Though it started small and with no original programming of its own, HBO grew to the point in which it dominated the last two decades of cable television. But to remain atop the Iron Throne, the company will need to change and grow. This isn't the WAR OF FIVE KINGS, but of dozens of would-be usurpers – many of whom are backed by untold billions and orthogonal business models. REDEF covers where HBO is today and how it got there, who it now competes against, and the moves it needs to make in "HBO, The Conqueror"... I finished BOB WOODWARD's "Fear: Trump in the White House." It details how the orange monster makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.It's just, well, chilling. You need to read it... Do you love oral histories?... ORIGINAL THINKERS is a new Ideas festival launching in TELLURIDE, CO this OCTOBER 4-7th that will smartly mix speakers, films, and art. The highly curated program features a wide variety of extraordinarily sharp folk , including actor JEFFREY WRIGHT from WESTWORLD, LAUREN GREENFIELD from GENERATION WEALTH, writers DAVID QUAMMEN and RON SUSKIND (the political writer who is the father in LIFE, ANIMATED ) and other achievers. The festival, founded by my friend, filmmaker, and cultural entrepreneur DAVID HOLBROOKE (director, THE DIPLOMAT and former Festival Director of TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM), will be super-smart, a lot of fun and very chill so that the audience can enjoy the stunning town during the fall colors. It's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious. And the curious will be at Original Thinkers... Happy Birthday to DREW MCCOURT, JAMES CHAM, IRENE SOKOLOFF, ALEC SHANKMAN, JOE BILMAN, DAVE MORGAN, LUKE WEIL, MICHAEL CAPASSO, TOM GRANT, and JEFF KARISH. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Wealthy Americans have stepped up investment in New Zealand. Parliament votes to ban foreigners from buying bolt-hole homes. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| From an impulsive president to scheming aides, the veteran reporter tells a credible tale of chaos in “Fear.” | | |
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 | Canadian Musician |
| AI is fundamentally changing not just how we listen to music, but how music is made and even how the music industry operates. And as all tech does, AI is evolving at such a radical pace that, frankly, we can only speculate about its long-term impacts. | | |
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 | Vox |
| What does it mean when viral products exist to calm us down? | | |
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 | Media Matters |
| Creators are profiting off hateful content. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| Prosecutors are reviving an aggressive tactic from the Reagan-era war on drugs and making today’s opioid crisis even worse. | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| The exits earlier this year by two of Sweden's biggest startup names would be enough to swell the pride of any regional ecosystem. Spotify's $27 billion IPO and iZettle's acquisition for $2.2 billion were big deals no matter where the companies were based. | | |
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 | Slate |
| The senators say they want to protect the rule of law. They can-and they don’t have to vote no to do it. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| What happens when private firms have cyberweapons as powerful as those owned by governments? | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Washington’s young émigré crowd is beginning to feel like they’re living in a spy novel. And they’re the bad guys. | | |
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 | David Perell |
| It's a law of the universe: Creativity always starts at the edge. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| To quote the great political philosopher Cyndi Lauper, "Money changes everything." And nowhere is that proverb more taken to heart than in a federal election, where billions of dollars are raised and spent on the understanding that money is a crucial determinant of whether or not a candidate will win. | | |
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 | Streaming Observer |
| When it comes to producing the best original shows, Netflix is slipping and Hulu is making a run for the top, despite the former spending more than five times as much this year on content. Why is that? Hulu’s CEO says it’s about quality, not quantity. And he might be right. | | |
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 | Benedict Evans |
| When Nokia people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling. They shrugged. “No 3G, and just look at the camera!” When many car company people look at a Tesla | | |
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 | We Are the Mutants |
| Serial killers exert a peculiar hold over many among the general public. Their crimes are appalling, yet fascinating; their motives are frequently incomprehensible, sometimes even to the killers themselves. Yet people find themselves drawn back again and again to these seemingly complex characters and the gruesome nature of their crimes. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Writers and editors share 40 years’ worth of memories about helping invent a language to talk about music, and the artists they critiqued -- some grateful, some not. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| How an impossibly flat expanse of absofreakinglutely nothing inspires creativity and transformation at Burning Man. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The host of Hulu’s ‘I Love You, America’ opens up about connecting with conservatives and shares what Louis C.K. told her after she said she ‘still loved’ him. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Medical malpractice gets a lot more complicated to adjudicate when artificial intelligence gets involved. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Imran Amed’s website, the Business of Fashion, is the oracle of the style world. As its top 500 power list is published, we ask how he’s got designers and editors hanging on his every word. | | |
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 | The Lenfest Institute for Journalism |
| More than 1 billion people use the Chinese messaging app WeChat each month. Not surprisingly, the app’s reach spreads far beyond China’s borders as Chinese expats, travellers, and students studying abroad all use the app.mSo in 2015, when the Philadelphia-based Chinese newspaper "Metro Chinese Weekly" was looking to grow its digital reach it turned to WeChat. | | |
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