The bar is too high. | | | | Steven Spielberg directing his film, 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,' 1982. HBO documentary on his career debuts tonight.
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| | rantnrave:// With the new HBO Documentary, SPIELBERG, we take a look back at the prolific career of director STEVEN SPIELBERG. He parlayed youth, sadness, passion, talent, a vision for how life should be and an audience sensibility into a filmography without compare. "Steven Spielberg Is The Most Successful Director in Hollywood History"... One of Hollywood's legendary executives has been accused with decades of sexual harassment. He says that's not who he is anymore. How did this stay silent for so long? An in-depth look at the coverage. "Harvey Weinstein Scandal: Sexual Harassment Takes Center Stage in Hollywood"... R.I.P. AOL INSTANT MESSENGER. AIM could have been the great platform. But alas, died slowly. It's now gone... If you're a fan of history and look back at harsh times and those who pulled us through, the responses seemed immediate. They weren't. A student of history knows that the march to the right thing is a long one. From war to rights to crime to corruption. Action and morality were slow... SNL skit I want to see tonight? MOTUS TRUMP promoting BOUNTY paper towels: "When the brown people of PUERTO RICO who owe us a lot of money, screwed up our budget, and want everything done for them have a flood problem not as big as KATRINA, I tell them to use 'the quicker picker upper.'" For the love of god. Make it all stop... Humor is so important to a society. With everyone calling everyone names, just remember, there is humor. And it needs to be used. It needs to push. It needs to offend. It needs to advance us... Happy Birthday JASON WEISBERG, JESSICA SCHELL, LOU BORRELLI, MATT WATKAJTYS, and DEPELSHA THOMAS MCGRUDER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Shannon Reed thought she knew what kind of fan she was, until she moved back home to Pittsburgh. | | |
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 | Poynter |
| No algorithm of reporting is more enduring and productive than the Fives W's: Who, What, Where, When and Why. None of those is harder to answer than the Why. Think about what you have learned over the last week about the mass killings in Las Vegas. | | |
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 | Embedded |
| 13 years ago, one TV show changed how the world saw Donald Trump. Today, the story of how it became a hit, why it may have helped his eventual election and how the people involved feel about it now. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Been wondering how much longer things can go on this way? You're not alone. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| A discussion about podcasting with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media, Andy Bowers of Panoply Media, Paula Szuchman from WNYC Radio, and Jad Abumrad, the creator and co-host of Radio Lab and "More Perfect." | | |
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 | CNET |
| The original "Blade Runner" presented a nightmarish techno-world of androids, flying cars and mood organs. How much of that future exists in the present? | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| We talked to Microsoft’s Alex Kipman and other industry leaders about what the blending of real and virtual means for human interaction with tech. | | |
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 | Vice |
| Filmmaker and photographer João Wainer talks about the years he spent taking pictures of what was once the largest prison in Latin America. | | |
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 | Ars Technica |
| Proven or not, the accusations almost certainly mean the end of Kaspersky as we know it. | | |
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 | TEDx Talks |
| Wade Davis, an ex-NFL player for the Titans, Redskins, and Seahawks, shares a gripping story of growing up gay in the world of football and urges us to reconsider our definitions of "masculinity." | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| She’s a West Wing-beat colossus and a sui generis creature at the paper of record. “Maggie’s success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the 'Times',” says a colleague. | | |
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 | Eater |
| The agony and the ecstasy of America’s favorite chain restaurant. | | |
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 | The Stranger |
| These guys mostly work in tech. | | |
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 | John Loeber |
| Much has been already said about what made Apple so wildly successful. Though there are many respects in which Apple did marginally better than its competitors, I believe Apple has two characteristics that are relatively unique. | | |
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 | Hackernoon |
| By far the most popular article I've ever penned is "Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency ". Every day it's tweeted hundreds of times. It's gets debated on social media, podcasts and more. It brought an avalanche of people pouring into DecStack, my virtual co-working spot for cryptocurrency and distributed application projects. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The rules for discussing firearms in the United States obscure the obvious solutions. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Chloe Maxmin and other Millennials pushing the Divest campaign are swiftly convincing Wall Street that investing in coal, oil, or natural gas is a sure-fire way to lose billions. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Nobody expects country stars to become anti-gun activists. But a younger generation of artists is starting a debate that never would have happened before this week’s massacre. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today. | | |
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| The Atlantic |
| How Leonardo da Vinci engineered the world’s most famous painting. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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