I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. | | | | Sometimes you need a beer after a cook. Jesse and Walter in "Breaking Bad." Did you know Jesse almost didn't make season 2?
(AMC) | | | | |  | “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
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| | rantnrave:// I love stories. My mom told them to me as a child before bed. The counselors told some around the fire at CAMP WINAUKEE. If we hang out, I'll often ask, "tell me a story." If you want to be successful in business, you have to be able to tell a story. And as you know, I love movies and television. I love the escape. The worlds. The characters. The themes. The meanings. And behind every story is an origin. A history of how it came to be. An oral history. We're pretty addicted to oral histories at REDEF. So we often mash that up with our love of movies and television. We use our REDEF SETS as a great way to compile them for you. And here are some of the new ones... Who could have guessed the cast of GET OUT could find relaxation sleeping in a former Confederate hospital? Or that MARY STEENBURGEN shouting obscenities could be so funny? Or that BLACK HAWK DOWN would provide the emotional backbone for THE AVENGERS? The people who made them knew, and these are their stories. "Movie Oral Histories, Vol. 5"... What if BOJACK HORSEMAN was about a washed-up racehorse? What if BREAKING BAD killed off JESSE PINKMAN in season one? What if ELIZABETH and PHILIP JENNINGS took their kids with them back to Russia in THE AMERICANS? The creators behind some of your favorite shows spill the facts, both alternative and real in "TV Show Oral Histories: Season Six"... And because we love you and know how curious you are, here is an almost infinite time suck of our past volumes on movie oral histories: 1, 2, 3, 4 and TV oral histories: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... And if that wasn't enough (I sound like a "seen on tv" offer) here is every single oral history regardless of the topic that REDEF has ever curated. We're talking movies, television, music, sports, technology, fashion and more. Go deep right here... Happy Birthday to HAPPY WALTERS, JON BROD, NICOLE DELMA, and DOUG GOLLAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Data & Society |
| This report identifies and names the Alternative Influence Network (AIN): an assortment of scholars, media pundits, and internet celebrities who use YouTube to promote a range of political positions, from mainstream versions of libertarianism and conservatism, all the way to overt white nationalism. | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| A journey from Jamaica to California, via England. | | |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
| "Journalists can be direct victims of disinformation campaigns, but they are also pushing back." | | |
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 | recode |
| Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta spoke onstage with Recode Senior Editor Jason Del Rey at the Code Commerce conference on Sept. 18, 2018. | | |
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 | VICE News |
| Here's how one former med student started a successful fake operation on Reddit from the comfort of his own home. | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| In another of our hallway conversation episodes, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla -- and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. How disruptive is Tesla really, and what exactly are they disrupting -- from the dashboard to car makers to vendors to energy source to autonomy overall? | | |
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 | Esquire |
| For years, Javier Valdez reported on the cartels, risking his life amid the sicarios. In the end, it caught up with him. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| How did Ninja become gaming's first crossover star? The "Fortnite" legend is relentless about one thing: He's always on. | | |
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 | Medium |
| I remember when the dream of the Internet and personal computing was about democratization and the distribution of power to foster exploration and creativity. Watching a demo of the first graphical web browser in 1993, I imagined the opportunity of giving a voice to anyone with access to a computer. | | |
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 | Queerty |
| A former 'Sesame Street' writer dishes on the famous duo, Jim Henson, flirting with monsters, Elmo's scandal, and more. | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| Earlier this summer the Internet breathed a sigh of relief: the European Parliament voted down a new Copyright Directive that would have required Internet sites to proactively filter uploaded content for copyright violations (the so-called "meme ban"), well as obtain a license to include any text from linked sites (the "link tax"). | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The CEO discusses the company's strategy and turnaround, including the success of Paramount Pictures, and the battle for Sky during a London breakfast meeting with reporters. | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| The ‘Made in China 2025’ plan aims to break China’s reliance on foreign technology and pull its hi-tech industries up to Western levels. But it has become a lightning rod for Washington’s ire in its trade war with Beijing. This article -- the first in a series on the plan -- explains how it became the centre of so much attention | | |
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 | Forbes |
| dosist CEO, Gunner Winston, shares his advice after coming out of retirement to help rebrand the company company for success and new opportunities. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| With the help of social media, some private basketball trainers are using the exposure to become entrepreneurs, newsmakers, and even celebrities in their own right. | | |
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 | Daring Fireball |
| A review of the iPhone XS and XS Max. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Are court cases decided by last-minute evidence? And are some therapists a tiny bit bonkers? We look at the assumptions behind some of our favourite TV dramas. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks. | | |
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 | Techdirt |
| We've done it -- we've solved the challenge of content moderation! (Checks notes). No, wait, sorry: we haven't. But what we have done is invited Kate Klonick, law professor and author of the excellent paper "The New Governors," to join us for an in-depth discussion about how we got here and why there are no easy or simple answers for content moderation. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Customer mistrust is so bad now that even huge beauty companies want more regulatory oversight. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| From marketplaces to VR, media giants seek relevance through startup investing. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Government policy shifted, but the white establishment did not: The black papers "thought of themselves as a voice of the community." | | |
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 | YouTube |
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