So, sweetie, I don't know if we ever figure our lives out, and the people who help you, they might not be who you thought or wanted. They might just be the people who show up. | | | | | Katherine Helmond in "Brazil" (1985) (Universal Pictures) | | | | |  | “So, sweetie, I don't know if we ever figure our lives out, and the people who help you, they might not be who you thought or wanted. They might just be the people who show up.”
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| | rantnrave:// Many believe the new administration has brought the extinction of net neutrality into play. Do you believe in some forms of the now-defined net neutrality and not others? Originally, it just meant discrimination of traffic flowing through your network. But if an ISP wants to charge NETFLIX for co-located servers and direct connections ( paid peering), should that be OK? That’s about getting traffic to the ISP’s network. And it’s not something ISP asked for. Are they charging on both ends (business and consumer)? Sure. But don’t grocery stores for shelf-space and promotional displays? Is it OK that Netflix can increase its traffic 20x in 3 years but ISPs bear the burden? What about 100x? 200x? These are often the questions and points opponents bring up. There's a vibrant ecosystem of SVOD services like CRUNCHYROLL that would never be able to afford delivery taxes - and those are established, well-backed companies. There’s a broader problem that net neutrality isn’t designed to solve. We need to deal with the state of national broadband, which is both limited and slow. Removing economic opportunities, especially those that are paid by the most cash-rich doesn’t help us solve that problem and we need to. BARRY DILLER has some clear thoughts... FRANK LUNTZ asks whether POTUS needs to hold press conferences in a TWITTER world? I prefer to be lied to in person... We should all register for a Muslim database if enacted... We used to anticipate big albums for weeks and months because we knew exactly when they were coming. Now we anticipate them for weeks and months because we don't. A look at the topsy-turvy world of album release dates in our REDEF MusicSET: "Surprise, Surprise: We Don't Need No Stinking Release Dates"... Our annual list of lists. What the critics saw, what they missed, and what you should definitely see before the end of the year. REDEF MediaSET: "Best Films of 2016: The Year in Lists"... This may be KARA SWISHER's best issue yet. She's reported stories in tech for years, but this is more important. Being summoned to a gold-plated tower and actually going. That's how you destroy your credibility... VIACOM's strongest move for networks was to have CBS negotiation protection. What now?... We're really about the learn the meaning of " f*** the poor"... I am insane in that I try things over and over again that deep down I know won't work but I try anyway... Happy Birthday to NANCY TELLEM, HILARY MASON, ROBERT BRETT, RICHIE HEDAYA, FRANK RADICE, DAVID DORN, ANTONY BRUNO, WALTER DELPH, RACHEL PETERS and LESLEY VECSLER. Belated to EMMA KRIKORIAN, NICK ROCKWELL, DAVID LAWEE and DIANE MAYER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The New Yorker |
| How long will it be before you lose your job to a robot? | | |
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 | CBS News |
| Colombia used to be one of the most violent and isolated places on Earth. But new ways of thinking have helped the country find peace and fight poverty. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Before he does away with the ritual, Trump should consider what happened in 1962, when JFK made sure he knew as much as his generals did. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| A CNN interview with Vice President-elect Mike Pence was held up as a shining example of stand-up journalism. But such moments now seem so rare. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| For decades, Alan Yentob was the dominant creative force at the BBC - behind everything from Adam Curtis to Strictly Come Dancing. He was a towering figure in British culture - so why did many applaud his very public slide from power? | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Analyze Trump as a politician and you'll only end up confused. Study him like a celebrity, however, and every baffling action makes sense. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| In the two decades since a group of up-and-coming L.A. actors banded together to make a little black-and-white indie named Don’s Plum, it transmogrified into the Movie Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire Don’t Want You to See. In his first extensive interview since the film essentially exiled him from Hollywood (and the Pussy Posse), one of its producers explains his side of the saga—and why he’s holding out hope you might one day see it. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
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 | recode |
| "Smart pipes" are changing the way consumers interact with their favorite content - and traditional delivery systems want in on the future. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The 15 to 20 stolen seconds between quarters is a high-wire act for reporters and a disdained distraction for coaches. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| The CEO of the feisty smartwatch company explains what went wrong, and why Fitbit scooped it up. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Director and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan introduces his newest film, "Manchester by the Sea." | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Twenty years after ‘Endtroducing …,’ the artist and his peers discuss crate digging in the digital age. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visits Houthi-held areas of Yemen being bombed out of existence by Saudi warplanes | | |
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 | Wrongful Conviction |
| Social scientists who have studied this issue estimate that between 4- 7% of the people in prison are innocent-- that's between 100,000 and 150,000 people. In this episode Jason Flom talks to Amanda Knox, Jarrett Adams and Jeff Deskovic about what it's like for an innocent person who is forced to spend the holidays in prison. | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| Hulk Hogan’s smashing legal victory shows us that publishing the truth may no longer be enough. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| A look back at the gestures, the swagger, the clothing and the moments that defined the Obamas’ style. | | |
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 | MassLive.com |
| Want to work for Bill Belichick? Here's what it takes, according to several current and former New England Patriots coaching assistants. | | |
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 | Digital Trends |
| s a photographer who honed his craft in film, Scott Mead was reluctant to go digital. Everyone was. “Early digital cameras were 3 to maybe 6 megapixels, and that didn’t really translate into the availability to have very large images,” Mead said. “Whereas when you’re shooting slides, hey, it’s as big as your enlarger can go, then that’s how big you can actually print.” | | |
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 | Vice |
| Why Movieland Arcade is still open in 2016 remains a great mystery of our time. | | |
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| BuzzFeed |
| As "Moana" continues to conquer the box office, meet some of the women who paved the way for princesses who don’t need princes or ridiculously small waists. | | |
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