Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. | | | | One of my all time heroes, George Lucas
(Jim Wilson/New York Times Co./Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
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| | rantnrave:// I have heroes. People I admire and whose work I love. GEORGE LUCAS is a top 5'er. So i have a good excuse for today's late publish. Yesterday, I had a dream come true. One for any child or man-child that grew up around the same time. I spent the day at LUCASFILM and INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC. The genius (and fun) folks behind so many of my favorite films and special effects that shaped the entire industry and our collective memory. A few names? STAR WARS. E.T., RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, GHOSTBUSTERS, INNERSPACE, THE MUMMY, A.I., TRANSFORMERS, DIE HARD 2. HOOK, JURASSIC PARK and more and more. HQ'd at THE PRESIDIO in SF. Demoed next-gen VR/AR experiences. 100s of the original models, costumes, matte paintings (from artists like RALPH McQAURRIE), original editing machines and on and on. I could have spent a week there and would still want more. Amazing. One of the most innovative places I've ever been. We talk about the tech world and innovation all time. We forget that Lucas and those mavericks and artists he worked with made some of the great technical and creative innovations in the history of any business. Not just from scratch but ingenious application of other technologies. Those innovations have had positive implications for many industries. What a great place to work... I'd fund a SETH ROGEN / EVAN GOLDBERG penned rom-com where TRUMP and KIM JONG-UN take a weekend vacation together. Or something. MOTUS AND JONG GO TO MAR-A-LAGO. They definitely screw each other and fight about who goes on top... Some cool new REDEF SETS.... SportsSET: "The Sports Jerseys We Love (and Hate)". And the stories they tell as they make their way from stadiums to bars to culture and even couture. Whose jersey are you wearing?... I'll take a "no", but really don't like it when the ask is an easy "yes"... With creative director debuts at CHLOÉ and GIVENCHY and American showings from VIRGIL ABLOH, JOSEPH ALTUZARRA, and THOM BROWNE, there were new projects from familiar faces throughout Paris. With new looks for some of fashion’s oldest houses, PARIS FASHION WEEK stood for divergent paths, and change. FashionSET: "Divergent Paths to Paris: PFW, S/S 2018"... They called him Slick Rick. One of the best coaches in college basketball history. And charming -- like teflon to the NCAA. But even he couldn't win when the FBI got involved. "The Scandal Rick Pitino Couldn't Beat"... Lie. Berate. Shame. Interrupt. Molest. Cheat. Sue. Ruin. Dismiss. Blame. Delay. Insult. Be Uninformed. Disrespect. Discriminate. Divide. Hate. Be Shallow. Keep working hard at this and you may become of the worst POTUS in history. #MOTUS... Happy Birthday to WES NICHOLS, FRAN POMERANTZ, FAISAL GALARIA, JON BANNER, CABLE NEUHAUS, and SAHAR ELHABASHI. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Frontline |
| Who killed Kim Jong-un’s half brother, Kim Jong-nam, and what does the murder reveal about the North Korean leader and his regime? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The network president responds to Wall Street's "irrational exuberance" over platforms like Netflix and Apple with a prediction that the future of content will reward artists, not algorithms. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| “And so at that point in time I knew this case was going to on until either somebody killed him or he killed somebody.” | | |
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 | Crooked Media |
| It's been two minutes since the shooting stopped. Everyone who will be shot is shot. Most who will die are dead, but some are still dying. A snippet of video, just recorded, is being shared, a person running, the rat-tat-tat of rifle fire in the background. (Automatic? Semi-automatic? This will matter later.) | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| It took a long time for the press to gain freedom and respect in America. Now both are in peril. | | |
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 | IEEE Spectrum |
| The technology behind Bitcoin could touch every transaction you ever make | | |
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 | Longreads |
| How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history. | | |
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 | Car and Driver |
| The fully computer-driven car is supposedly imminent. Is driving dead? We take a close look in this package edited by Malcolm Gladwell. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The Juice re-enters American society at its most divided since his ‘Trial of the Century.’ | | |
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 | espnW |
| Chamique Holdsclaw's All-Star basketball career allowed her to mask her mental illness. Until it didn't. After hitting her lowest point, she walked away from the court and found a higher purpose. | | |
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 | Dissent Magazine |
| For all of their education and claims to authority, the would-be policy vanguard represented by think tanks like Brookings has become startlingly backward-looking and incapable of charting a new path for the United States in the twenty-first century. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Why the Berkshire Museum is selling off its treasures, and what that says about the fragile norms of the industry. | | |
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 | Collapse Board |
| "UK Consumers Of Illegal Online Music On The Decrease" runs the headline from 18 September in "M Magazine," which is published by PRS for Music Limited, the UK music copyright collective. Whatever. Personally, I’ll never know why more people don’t have supermassive music collections. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| The prosecutor and his entrepreneur brother are trying to build a media empire for the resistance era. First step: a podcast. | | |
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 | Vice |
| The de-facto headquarters for Miami's cocaine trade was a dangerous, opulent place where the underworld mixed it up with celebrities. | | |
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 | Eater |
| A millennial explains why his fellow millennials are killing casual dining chains, by a millennial who is peak millennial #millennialsbelike. | | |
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 | Techdirt |
| Even though Oracle is based in the heart of Silicon Valley (I can see its offices from my own office window as I type this), the company has become sort of anti-Silicon Valley. It tends to represent the opposite of nearly everything that is accepted... | | |
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 | recode |
| Dorsey and Twitter haven’t moved quick enough. | | |
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 | Co.Design |
| I took the first mass-produced garment with a textile interface for a spin, and found myself both impressed and frustrated. | | |
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 | Disruption |
| A model to help you evaluate consumer subscription businesses (download here) | | |
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 | Vox |
| The Washington Post’s viral anti-gun control piece gets a lot wrong. | | |
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 | NY Daily News |
| In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, the debate over guns is back at the national forefront. | | |
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