The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. | | | | Eminem is mad as hell at Trump and it's so damn awesome.
(Eminem.com) | | | | |  | “The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”
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| | rantnrave:// There's a scene in the 3rd season premiere of STARZ's OUTLANDER. The main character CLAIRE has been through it. She's seen the carnage of war in the 1740s and 1940s. She's a nurse and healer. Living a life far beyond what was expected in either of those times. Back from the past, she moves to CAMBRIDGE as her husband takes a job at HARVARD. As the faculty greet them, the dean scoffs at her reading habits and says she should "resume more important and, um, fitting domestic concerns for a lady." She's silent. She sucks it up. Just another day for a woman. Fast forward to non-fiction and the HARVEY WEINSTEIN scandal and all the women stepping forward. ASHLEY JUDD. ROSE MCGOWAN. ASIA ARGENTO. LAUREN SIVAN. ROSANNA ARQUETTE. GRETCHEN MOL. GWYNETH PALTROW. ANGELINA JOLIE. MIRA SORVINO. Just a few of the brave woman who have endured the lechery. Substantial, powerful women. I think about them standing on a red carpet in CANNES. Or the OSCARS. Or an audition. Or any event. There are tons of pictures of most of them with Weinstein. They were following their dream and had to endure this behavior like it was some evil toll bridge to get to where they wanted to be. Many in the industry heard the rumors for years. Many knew secondhand. And many knew directly. We have a history of blaming the victim. They're scared. Who stands up for them? It's rare in life that people step forward. They don't want to get involved. They think of the risk if they're wrong. Or the risk to their self interest. Not an excuse by any means, but human. And sometimes very cowardly. We remember history through the whistleblowers. But they were few and often not immediate. That saddens me. What's also clear now is that he was feared. But not loved. And you know the old question that MACHIAVELLI posed: "Whether it is better to be loved than feared?" Harvey chose fear. And when he reached out to friends to defend him, he realized that only those who loved and cared would even consider it. And they weren't there. As JEFFREY KATZENBERG wrote to him, "it seems to me we are now down to degrees of horrible... I cannot in any way say this is OK with me… It’s not at all, and I am sickened by it, angry with you and incredibly disappointed in you." The Weinstein revelations will rock HOLLYWOOD and many more will be called out. I think you'll see a bloodletting in all industries. And it's about time. Careers and reputations will be ruined. But I worry that we'll lose the meaning in all this. That the topic will be hijacked. Or as I call it, KAEPERNICK'd. The issue will be politicized. Hollywood will be portrayed as a morally bankrupt SODOM and GOMORRAH. People having consensual affairs will be disgraced. There will be false accusations. The media will salivate. We'll eat it up. And we’ll lose the plot. How do we fix this? Women have to deal with this horror every day. Imagine the demoralization. I can't. Or I couldn't until I read my friend RONAN FARROW's fantastic investigative piece in THE NEW YORKER. Detailing the machine that protects offenders. But also a stunning and sickening audio recording. This is just the beginning. We take a look in "Hollywood Talks Back to Harvey Weinstein." It has, it appears, been a long time coming... I've been waiting for musicians to speak up. I grew up expecting that when evil threatened the world. Musicians put into words and music what many of us feel but cannot express. Finally, my prayers were answered. EMINEM is here. Breathtaking... Many of you ask me for television show recommendations. Sometimes I research shows based on themes. News broke that STEVEN SPIELBERG will be reviving his '80s show AMAZING STORIES with APPLE. It was a favorite of mine growing up. I loved anthology series that dealt with the supernatural and sci-fi worlds. They were fun, sometimes strange and sometimes spooky. But they always told us deep stuff about the world around us in the guise of fantasy. If you want to go down the rabbit hole with me, watch THE TWILIGHT ZONE, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, THE OUTER LIMITS, BLACK MIRROR, ROOM 104, NIGHT GALLERY and TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE. That will get you going. What did I miss?... And please don't forget that tonight is the 3rd season premiere of SAM ESMAIL's MR. ROBOT on USA NETWORK. Like the shows above, it has a lot to say about our world... Happy Birthday to MARC GEIGER, DAVID KENNY, SHAUNA MEI, EMILY GLASSMAN, CHRIS CUNNINGHAM and BEN MENDELSON. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The president is feuding with some lawmakers and is angry about criticism of his administration’s hurricane response. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences -- or even host their own fake ones. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on October 3 for a case that could create limits on gerrymandering. The case, Gill v. Whitford , specifically challenges the way the Republican state legislature in Wisconsin drew the state assembly map to favor their own party. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Andrew Torba founded Gab.ai as a "free speech" alternative to other social networks. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| How the tech giant is trying to leverage the science of breakthroughs and resurrect the lost art of invention. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Evolutionary theory says men stray to increase offspring, but what motivates women? Enter the mate-switching hypothesis. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down. | | |
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 | The Tim Ferriss Show |
| Sir Richard Branson, founder and chairman of The Virgin Group, is a world-famous entrepreneur, adventurer, activist, and business icon. He has launched a dozen billion-dollar businesses and hundreds of other companies. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The legendary director is critical of the outsized influence of Tomatometer ratings and Cinemascore grades, adding that "good films by real filmmakers aren’t made to be decoded, consumed or instantly comprehended." | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| How the president’s daughter plays the press. | | |
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 | GQ |
| T La Rock was one of the pioneers of hip-hop, an old-school legend sampled by Public Enemy and Nas. But after a brutal attack put him in a nursing home, he had to fight to recover his identity, starting with the fact that he’d ever been a rapper at all. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| A conversation with the president of Didi Chuxing, the world's largest ride-sharing company. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| A "Times" examination of Russian-linked Facebook pages used in the 2016 election found that much of the content was taken directly from videos and posts from Americans. | | |
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 | Lefsetz Letter |
| It’s all about you, your brand, you’re on your own and it’s your obligation to establish your status. Used to be you were a member of the faceless masses. | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| One way to give the party a jolt of energy? Let a new generation step into positions of leadership in the House by 2020. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Caroline Gleich’s instagram feed is full of epic shots of the pro skier conquering the planet’s hardest lines. but in recent years, it was marred by an ugly shadow: anonymous bullies whose abusive comments left a wake of anxiety and doubt. Then Gleich spoke out about her tormenters-and realized she wasn’t the only adventure athlete being harassed online. | | |
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 | The Intercept |
| By recording his encounters with the federal agents harassing him, Jabar Ali Refaie effectively ran a one-man counterintelligence program against the FBI. | | |
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