Month: May 2017
May 31, 2017
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I believe the extremes of public opinion are the key issue, not which side they’re on.
We’ve optimized for extremes.
May 29, 2017
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The Apocalypse According to “The Leftovers”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-apocalypse-according-to-the-leftovers
May 27, 2017
May 26, 2017
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At least Coach still things space exploration is cool.
http://www.coach.com/shop/featured-coach-space?hp=text_m1_shop
pic.twitter.com/xKQ0jtBt3h
May 25, 2017
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Why Amazon is eating the world
http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/
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All this densification in Toronto is happening within two blocks of me and I’m fully in favour of it.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/05/king-west-condo-boom-transform-downtown-toronto/
pic.twitter.com/QoRf8S2kXF
May 24, 2017
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Leland Palmer Wasn’t the Only Thing That Killed Twin Peaks
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/11/david_lynch_s_improvisatory_world_building_killed_twin_peaks_before_laura.html
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Our minds focus more on the future than the past and this gives new insights into mental health.
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I had no idea that the Nazis used America’s legally sanctioned racism as a model for anti-Jewish laws
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nazis-as-students-of-americas-worst-racial-atrocities/2017/05/19/fdbcd258-1ef9-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html
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It’s funny because it’s true
how do dogs live
by eating food
— Kids Write Jokes (@KidsWriteJokes) May 24, 2017
May 23, 2017
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Never invite Pepys to a potluck
To Mr. Falconer’s to a good dinner, having myself carried them a vessel of sturgeon and a Lamprey pie.
— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) May 23, 2017
May 22, 2017
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I subjected my girls to random scenes from Twin Peaks for no good reason today and I feel really bad about.
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Oh jeez, I didn’t know there was such a thing as a “debris flow” – rivers of rocks!
May 21, 2017
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Twin Peaks Is Not the Show We’ve Convinced Ourselves It Was
http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/twin-peaks-is-not-the-show-weve-convinced-ourselves-it-was.html
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Susan Faludi: ‘In My World, Photographs Lie’, via @nytimes
May 18, 2017
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I’m rewatching Twin Peaks (pray for my soul) and have new respect for Madchen Amick, the only naturalistic actor in the whole mess.
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So good
You've got time. Become a lifer in San Junipero. pic.twitter.com/1gbKeH6ESH
— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) May 18, 2017
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Someone go to the yard sale, buy the bits and bobs that were Rdio and let me run it, kay?
ALERT: SiriusXM in talks to acquire Pandora; companies still apart on price – sources https://t.co/iiVXvYjbRQ
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) May 18, 2017
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I have highly recommend filming big chunks of boring old everyday life like this. It will allow future you to be a time traveler.
This home video of post-punks taking the train to Coney Island in 1987 is…a beautiful portrait of family. https://t.co/CSdixpm2WZ
— Paul Ford (@ftrain) May 18, 2017
May 17, 2017
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Archiving other people’s history. Wonderful.
May 15, 2017
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I can’t believe it took this long. I figured showing off secret intel would start as soon as the pre-election security briefings started.
Exclusive: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats in their Oval Office meeting last week https://t.co/qHTk7wC068
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 15, 2017
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I’ve watched Silcon Valley long enough that Hooli sounds like a perfectly fine company name.
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Dream:
Teased someone who can’t divide 750 by 4
Huh, I can’t either
I can’t work my Calculator
Or an iPhone app
Siri won’t respond
May 14, 2017
May 13, 2017
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Apparently I’ve never paid attention to the lyrics of “A Thin Line Between Love And Hate” because damn it gets dark at the end.
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Bookmark
Maria Bamford’s Melancholic, Hallucinogenic, and Very Funny “Lady Dynamite” – The New Yorker
Despite its serious themes, Maria Bamford’s “Lady Dynamite” is stuffed with jokes, visual and verbal, to the point that it’s like a tottery Jenga game. Credit Courtesy Netflix There’s a great song in the musical “[title of show]” that asserts, “I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing / Than a…
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“Tim Bray · I Don’t Believe in Blockchain”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/05/13/Not-Believing-in-Blockchain
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Magic realism as political opinion piece.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/05/12/this-is-not-a-crisis-republicans-say-as-a-large-spider-slowly-devours-them/?utm_term=.4fffa3ae538a