Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. | | | | "Longmire" is the easiest show to watch. I love it. 6th and final season is almost here. A lawman and his crew in modern Wyoming doing things old school. And one character has never uttered a single contraction.
(Netflix) | | | | |  | “Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm in NYC right now. Flew back for a sit-down conversation with my dear friend DISNEY exec JIMMY PITARO at CORNELL ILR SPORTS LEADERSHIP SUMMIT. We discussed career, DISNEY, startups vs. big companies, brands, mentors, the journey, the future, and more... It took me 90 mins to get from TRIBECA to midtown. The city is nuts for some UNITED NATIONS stuff and the orange monster is here. The traffic in NYC is an epic disaster. Don't even talk to me about LA. LA traffic you can avoid. If you go to CULVER CITY or BURBANK at 4pm you deserve to sit in f***ing traffic for your unwise choice. But traffic got me thinking about taxis vs. UBER. Lots of money invested in cabs. But it's a product that is remarkably bad. I've written about this before. The cab is in bad shape. Not a huge base of "navigational knowledge" either. I asked a cab driver why he wasn't using WAZE. "I don't need it, I drive around all day." Essentially a gut thinker. Normally, i have no problem with gut calls. But here is a technology that benefits both sides of the seat. That cab driver made every wrong navigational choice he possibly could have for an NYC trip. It's an industry that may not deserve to continue because it forgot about product, service, training and technology. An example of a monopoly that was protected from competition. Whereas, the Uber driver that picked me up from JFK on Friday shaved an hour off our trip to NYC. Took 90 mins which is terrible, but would have taken even longer if not for Waze. I feel bad, but taxis just don't have the competitive game.... While JOE ARPAIO likely would have stopped, searched and questioned many of the EMMY winners and nominees without cause, I was pretty proud to see diverse faces on TV especially at this time. And super proud of MGM and HULU for the much-deserved HANDMAID'S TALE wins. This is a moment for HULU. A legitimate arrival moment. They need to run with it. They are spending a third of what NETFLIX spends and need to keep the momentum because it's really originals that drive user growth. They'll need to implement a CLIVE DAVIS-list A&R strategy. Making less but mostly all good. Clive is the master of picking and delivering. Not scale. Well, scale on sales of course... Can a sports TV anchor call the president a white supremacist without starting a war between the White House and her network, and between the network and the rest of the media? Is there any winning move for the network caught in the middle? Should ESPN stick to sports? Is that even an option anymore? We take a look at the fascinating topic in SportsSET: "ESPN Has a 'Personal Politics' Problem and It's Going to Lose Either Way" We're big fans of FAST COMPANY and DAVID LIDSKY. So was pretty proud to have REDEF listed atop their best newsletter picks... FARGO may be TV's greatest achievement. It has a different storyline each season. A different cast. And nothing to do with the movie. It's inspired by the "world" of the original film. Creator NOAH HAWLEY delivered an exceptional third season with stinging critiques of timely subjects like global economics. Binge now. We think "'Fargo' Season 3 Proved It's The Best Show On Television"... The babies got a dog. They named her LOLA. I wanted them to wait and earn it more but I'm the uncle. No one give a s*** what the uncle says. We barely have an observer board seat. But they're happy, and that makes me happy... Happy Birthday to SHARON VASSELL, HUNTER WALK, MARA HIRSCHHORN CORKERY, MICHAEL SHIMBO, DANIELLE GIA BEINSTEIN, SAMANTHA LAZARUS LEVIN, JANE RINZLER BUCKINGHAM, MATT HIRSCHHORN, LISA HACKETT, ALEX SCHAFFEL, ANITA CHINKES RATNER, BENJAMIN ROCCO GEORGIA, JEFF HOUSENBOLD, and HEBA MACKSOUD. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | CBS News |
| John le Carré is the pen name of David Cornwell, an ex-spy for Britain’s famed MI6, whose page-turner spy thrillers have made him one of the most successful authors of the past 60 years. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| He influenced Jobs and dreamed up a digital future designed for learning and thinking. Fifty years on, Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true. | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| Facebook is in trouble -- again -- for Russian ads about the election; figuring out how to deal with them requires first understanding that Facebook, like Google, is a Super-Aggregator. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Is it legit? Is it a hipster cult? And why’s everyone wearing Saint Laurent? GQ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins the flock to see if Christianity can really be this cool and still be Christian. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| How one of the weirdest shows in Australian history became a cultural icon. | | |
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 | NewCo Shift |
| Facebook and Google’s advertising platforms are out of control. That used to be a good thing. Now…not so much. | | |
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 | The Intercept |
| Amid concerns about Ethiopia's human rights abuses, the NSA forged a secret relationship with the country that expanded exponentially over the years. | | |
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 | Hackernoon |
| Artificial intelligence, AI, has grabbed headlines, hype, and even consternation at the beast we are unleashing. Every powerful technology can be used for good and bad, be it nuclear or biotechnology, and the same is true for AI. | | |
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 | Pressthink |
| A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job. | | |
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| Fast Company |
| WME-IMG’s OTT fashion network Made to Measure has experienced tremendous growth in just two years. Now the platform is digging into original content. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| Woofers on blast up the jam block rock: A fragmentary history of ghettoblasting. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| Released to mixed reviews in 1982, director Ridley Scott’s neo-noir vision of a not-so-distant future where the line between man and machine has all but disappeared went on to cult status and influenced a generation of filmmakers. | | |
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 | recode |
| Andrew Rosen, founder and president of Theory, and Yael Aflalo, founder and CEO of Reformation, discuss reimagining distribution channels. | | |
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 | The Drum |
| As Amazon wields a growing power as a search engine, it is also becoming a more compelling advertising platform and, as a result, is posing the first real challenge to Google and Facebook, which have long commanded digital advertising budgets virtually unopposed. Of the two, Google initially stands to lose more, but as Amazon’s ad offerings expand, Facebook could also bleed ad dollars. | | |
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 | Planet Money |
| Behind almost all popular music, there is a hidden economy of music producers buying and selling sonic snippets, texting each other half-finished beats, and angling for back-end royalties. Even selling the sound of a single tap of a snare drum recorded just right. | | |
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 | WTF with Marc Maron |
| Lee Daniels got his start in show business by running a nursing agency. That may seem unusual but the road to success for the producer-writer-director behind "Precious," "The Butler" and "Empire" has always been unorthodox. | | |
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 | Smithsonian Magazine |
| Reducing India’s emissions will take more than science--it will take a new paradigm of de-colonialism, says Sunita Narain | | |
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 | CNN Reliable Sources |
| The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman talks with Brian Stelter about the significance of Robert Mueller obtaining a search warrant to obtain Facebook data. Ackerman says there's a lot we still don't know about Russian efforts to spread propaganda through social networks. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| How much progress was there at the Emmys, really? A lot. But also somewhat less than meets the eye. And the event was unbalanced by a guest, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, whose presence confirmed that for all the noise that Hollywood makes about speaking truth to power, it will excuse its shameless abuses to make a joke that's not even funny. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The job was just recognized by the Emmys for the first time ever. Here’s how it works. | | |
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