I guess I resist popular culture just a pinch and look for the edges. | | | | Big hug to Sergio Dipp as he makes his Monday Night Football debut.
(Justin Edmonds/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I guess I resist popular culture just a pinch and look for the edges.”
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| | rantnrave:// Late today, I know. I'm at home sick. Likely got it from one of the babies who are really just petri dishes once school starts... Today's a s*** day anyway. Worst day for a curator is when APPLE makes its announcements. POTUS is an uninformed, narcissistic, lying hate monger. Climate change is on full tilt and we're underwater. CHINA is the de facto new rule maker. And oh, APPLE WATCH now has cellular. Yes, cellular is cool. Not their fault, not totally, but these events have turned boring and uneventful. I know it's canned but it doesn't have to feel canned and it does. I've loved APPLE my whole life. Really never owned much else. And I have a lot of APPLE stuff. A lot. But I feel ignored in recent years. The MACBOOK TOUCH BAR is a disaster and ruined a $4k purchase. Constantly interrupting work and zero acknowledgment that I've seen. APPLE TV is the most buggy and slow device I own. I'm about the iPHONE. And if that falters, I likely fall to AMAZON. FIRE TV is the best product out there. That said, I'm not there yet, but it's beginning to smell a lot like MICROSOFT 2002. I feel a distance as a loyal consumer, when I was always 1000% team Apple. It's just a feeling but I'm going deep on announcements and will return with thoughts... I'd never vote for him, but last night, TED CRUZ became more human. If Cruz will admit that the RUSSIANS are liking porn it could blow the whole thing wide open. These write themselves really. Or is it TWITTER's fault... Watching young SERGIO DIPP on ESPN Monday night was tough. And easy to have fun with. Twitter did. I'm torn. As a broadcaster, this guy clearly wasn't ready or too nervous or I don't know what. His speech was buffered. A weird cadence. It was noticeable. Maybe it was too big of a moment for his career at this point. Not sure. But I laughed. Not a big deal. I feel bad now. Social media was vicious and in many cases racist. And being MEXICAN had nothing to do with it. His accent had nothing to do with it. Morons. I'm always amazed when AMERICANS make fun of someone who speaks more languages than they do. It's the height of bigoted irony. His personal message was heartbreaking and I felt bad. Not to conflate the professional issues, but there are a lot more important things going on in the world that can draw our ire. At least he has a sense of humor about it and I'm all for 2nd chances... The GOP should hire the guy who did the new TROPICANA container a few years back... The importance of understanding UEX and UI of streaming video device services so you can succeed with your own content and service in an OTT world... Think THE DEUCE is trying to even the playing field? A lot of penis exposure in episode 1 given 50 years of female exposure in media. Big gap... If I were to wear a dress other than at BURNING MAN, this would be it... Long live RSS. F death... AMAZON STUDIOS abruptly pisses me off... $20 Million per hour on a series?... Happy Birthday to PAUL HYLAND, KIRK IWANOWSKI, and LAUREN COHEN STARR. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Tribune News Service |
| Limited-edition sports shoes such as Adidas’ Yeezys are snapped up by resellers, driving collectors unable to afford their prices to the internet. An online community links them to sellers of high-quality Chinese fakes. | | |
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 | The Intercept |
| The Facebook CEO needs to explain how bad actors can (and cannot) exploit Facebook's vast trove of personal information and proprietary algorithms. | | |
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 | Syfy |
| September 2017 is Syfy's 25th anniversary, so we're using it as an excuse to look back and celebrate the last 25 years of ALL science fiction, fantasy, and horror, a time that has seen the genres we love conquer the world of pop culture. For us, that means lists! | | |
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| "The government should be more supportive of their people." Narendra Bansal, founder of Intex Technologies, an Indian technology company that was the second largest mobile vendor in the country by volume less than two years ago, pleaded earlier this year. | | |
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 | The Rich Eisen Show |
| Famed TV executive Don Ohlmeyer to talk about sports on TV, its evolution, his career, and more. | | |
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 | The Renaissance Mathematicus |
| Over the years a fair number of the blog posts here have been fairly speculative, basically me thinking out loud about something that has recently crossed my mind or my path. | | |
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 | Literary Hub |
| From Karel Čapek to Isaac Asimov, a brief history of machine anxiety. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
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 | The Daily Beast |
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 | Fast Company |
| Silicon Valley veterans are ditching fast-track careers and going all-in with their time and money as they reimagine education for their children. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Charney’s line in hipster fashion made him a multi-million dollar sensation until serial accusations of sexual harassment led to his downfall. Has the man who now sleeps on a mattress in his new factory changed his ways? | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
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 | Eater |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
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