I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. | | | | Sharon Stone deciding if she's had too much Ace Rothstein in "Casino." 1995.
(Universal Pictures) | | | | |  | “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
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| | rantnrave:// So Wednesday's outrage from the often myopic tech-set was focused on a vending machine startup "reportedly" trying to disrupt the bodegas of AMERICA. Or is it? It's called, interestingly enough, BODEGA. Even if the subject is one you take seriously, it's hard not to roll your eyes and laugh. A FAST COMPANY story went viral and it was on. And I tend to jump on TWITTER and have some fun because I'm a two-year old. I'm from NEW YORK CITY. Our bodega, our corner store, is a sacred thing. A local thing. It's part of the fabric of the neighborhood. Where the staff greets you with "Hello, my friend. My friend, my friend, what can I get you? The usual my friend?" It's also the likely home of the most sacred of all sandwiches. Eggs, bacon and cheese on a roll. I can't have those anymore but the integrity of that sandwich must be maintained. When that friggin' machine can make an egg sandwich like my bodega, call me. CERSEI LANNISTER once said: "Touch my bodega. I take your head." My dear friend and BODEGA investor HUNTER WALK explains why he invested and what they didn't foresee about their polarizing name. There are legitimate worries about the effects on local culture when replaced by scaled tech. As Fast Company put it: "this startup installs unmanned pantry boxes in apartments, offices, dorms, and gyms. It promises convenience, but also represents competition for many mom-and-pop stores." Is the startup tone deaf? If anyone starts referring to this as BodegaGate, they get smacked... Some great REDEF SETS today: RALPH LAUREN built a commercial empire on a vision of American prep; his personal story, aspiration, and dreams are woven into a one of the most successful brands from the twentieth century. As the company turns 50, there are more stories to tell, from hip-hop to WALL STREET. FashionSET: "Ralph Lauren: American Empire"... From dopers to sign-stealers to football-deflaters, sports is littered with famous cheaters. But where do you draw the line? Where does ultra-competitiveness and ingenuity end and cheating begin? SportsSET: "It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught"... Through glam, disco, synth-pop and beyond, brothers RON and RUSSELL MAEL have spent five eccentric decades on pop's outskirts, occasionally infiltrating the center, and more than occasionally achieving art-damaged greatness (just ask MORRISSEY). MusicSET: "Sparks: The Little Art-Pop Engine That Could (And Still Can)"... I could pull this off if I was on sidelines of a boarding school football game in 1949. SCHOOL TIES-like. "Boola Boola." You feel me? Thoughts?... ESPN wouldn't fire JEMELE HILL for saying the sky is blue, right? Guess what? It is blue. And, oh, ANDY BOROWITZ is a funny mofo... The best anti-leak program involves smart humane decisions from competent people. Oops... Hey everyone, just a reminder that this f***ing nut job is still in THE WHITE HOUSE... Interesting thread on nuclear power from MIKE SHELLENBERGER... HILLARY CLINTON's lack of introspection and self awareness is freaking me out. It's beginning to remind me of MITCH MARTIN's wedding toast. Someone take the mic, please... Happy Birthday to OLIVIA MA CORWIN, TORY JOHNSON, JANET FRIESEN, WILL KEENAN, BRADFORD CROSS, ELLE PREZANT CELINSKI, JIM LUCCHESE, TIM ARANGO, PHILLIP ALVELDA, JONAS HELLER, and SCOTT SCHWANBECK. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century -- and why it may be impossible to stop. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| In this, the year hip-hop won the music business, one of its defining hits was released more or less by mistake. Back in February, Lil Uzi Vert, a charismatic, septum-pierced 23-year-old rapper out of Philadelphia who'd become internet famous with a frenetic outpouring of digital singles, EPs, and mixtapes, was on his first tour of Europe, opening a string of shows for the Weeknd. | | |
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 | Medium |
| NOTE: the opinion below is in my name only, and does not represent the views of ETC, the School of Cinematic Arts, or USC as a whole. Also, this analysis does not include "It"'s large box office success. | | |
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 | Om Malik |
| If you total up the energy spent debating the merits and demerits of the Apple iPhone X event and various devices announced today, odds are that you could actually power another keynote, one where the basic question is why: why does the iPhone X matter? | | |
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 | Origins with James Andrew Miller |
| Host James Andrew Miller traces Larry David’s comedic roots, and routes, with help from Larry and several of his long time friends. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The new cohost of ‘SportsCenter’ and her partner, Michael Smith, have been blamed for the network’s perceived liberal bias. Should they embrace debate or block the trolls? In an exclusive interview, Hill shares her side. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not the spine. | | |
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 | Wired |
| This startup lets you control machines with your mind-no implants required. | | |
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 | recode |
| When the NBA opened its first New York store it signed a low-profile e-commerce company to run it. We'll be interviewing the people in charge. Adam Silver was unanimously elected NBA commissioner in 2014 by the NBA Board of Governors, and presides over a league that is one of the largest providers of sports programming in the world. | | |
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 | Popular Science |
| But no, they’re not about to go extinct. | | |
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 | NewCo Shift |
| If tech wants to reverse the crushing tide of negative public opinion, it must start creating public good commensurate with its extraction of private profit. | | |
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 | POLITICO |
| The fading of the tech industry’s bipartisan glow in Washington puts it at risk for tighter regulations. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| A multibillion-dollar market started by Gatorade has become a proving ground for the science of hydration. | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| The iPhone X is a quintessential Apple product, because it is the best; is there a market for iPhone 8? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The former king of cable news enters THR's no-spin zone to discuss his exit amid harassment claims, the president's Charlottesville remarks, Megyn Kelly's Putin sit-down and his latest 'Killing' book. | | |
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 | Slate Star Codex |
| The predictive processing model offers compelling accounts of autism and schizophrenia. But "Surfing Uncertainty" and related sources I’ve read are pretty quiet about depression. Is there a possible PP angle here? Chekroud (2015) has a paper trying to apply the model to depression. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| In September 1997, Capitol Records made history by releasing Duran Duran's "Electric Barbarella" as the internet's first-ever digital single, heralding a massive shift in how the music industry operates. | | |
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 | WWD |
| In a rare interview, Vogue’s famed editor in chief discusses the title’s September issue, the Internet - and influence. | | |
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 | E&E News |
| Here at the roof of the Continental Divide, one of the Rocky Mountains' largest glaciers is in retreat, and a new world is emerging in the wake of the receding ice. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| A philosopher argues that millions of Americans are subject to tyranny in the workplace. | | |
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 | History Today |
| The dramatic life of the outlaw and special agent Eşref Bey epitomizes the end of the Ottoman Empire. | | |
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 | Nature |
| Entrepreneurs are finding profits turning human waste into fertiliser, fuel and even food. | | |
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