Month: May 2018
May 31, 2018
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Review
It was fun watching Jennifer Lawrence’s slow descent into madness via claustrophobic close-up as mayhem steadily increases all around her. I’m not sure if it’s about loss of control, the sacrificial role of muses, or something entirely different, but I didn’t really care in the end because it felt very fresh.
May 18, 2018
May 16, 2018
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For every drop of vinegar you put on your fries, you lose 10 drops of blood.
If you went outside on a really windy day, you might blow away to Africa.
Swallowed gum would stay in your stomach for 7 years.
The Ultimate Guide to Bizarre Lies Your Mom Told You. Eating bread crusts will make your hair curly?! The only one I ever got was "if you cross your eyes, they'll stay like that". https://t.co/e6ojNoVvmp
— kottke.org (@kottke) May 16, 2018
May 14, 2018
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🙄
“democratizating” has been published in at least 105 books since 1934
— NYT Bibliography (@NYT_finally) May 15, 2018
May 13, 2018
May 12, 2018
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Review
The Overstory (Richard Ford, 2018)
Absolutely wonderful. Such rich language, such wonderfully explored characters.
May 10, 2018
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Punks, then and now.
https://www.express.co.uk/pictures/pics/4508/Punk-rock-icons-then-and-now-1970s-pictures
pic.twitter.com/bDwN4VTMOE
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I haven’t seen anyone talking about #ThisIsAmerica referencing the extended version of Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” which seemed pretty obvious to me.
Maybe people don’t know it exists?
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Everything feels anecdotal now
May 8, 2018
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OMG my Google Assistant went NUTS during the Google IO demo just now.
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Is everyone in #ThisIsAmerica a POC?
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Had to unfollow Steven Pinker on Twitter today.
The world IS getting better, but others make the case without the “free thinker” bullshit.
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Had to unfollow Steven Pinker on Twitter today.
The world IS getting better, but others make the case without the “free thinker” bullshit.
May 7, 2018
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Is this amazing or ridiculous? I can’t tell.
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Vicious subtweet
Smile! 😀#BlueJays baseball is back tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/qg7Hoto1hS
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) May 8, 2018
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😡
Omfg Elon Musk and Grimes have arrived pic.twitter.com/xs1qU9Vv6y
— Maeve McDermott (@maeve_mcdermott) May 8, 2018
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It works. pic.twitter.com/s84OPoOls6
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Bookmark
I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye by Ta-Nehisi Coates
What Kanye West seeks is what Michael Jackson sought—liberation from the dictates of that we. In his visit with West, the rapper T.I. was stunned to find that West, despite his endorsement of Trump, had never heard of the travel ban. “He don’t know the things that we know because he’s removed himself from society to a point where it don’t reach him,” T.I. said. West calls his struggle the right to be a “free thinker,” and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom—a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls you to give even more, but a conqueror’s freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak, the freedom of rape buttons, pussy grabbers, and fuck you anyway, bitch; freedom of oil and invisible wars, the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas.
May 6, 2018
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As a child I lived in fear that one day I would succumb to my unquenchable desire to pick every trillium I saw.
May 5, 2018
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Review
It’s best to think of this as a mid-level Black Mirror episode. Lots of fun stuff if you don’t think about it too hard and some nice graphic design used for the ubiquitous AR everyone in this world has embedded in their noggins.
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Lobe.ai looks pretty amazing. This explanation of their technology also makes a great intro to how machine learning works in general.
👍🏻
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Has a Game Plan
In an age of cord cutting, constant distraction, and rapidly changing media and sports habits, professional basketball has bucked many trends. Television ratings are up by double digits so far this season, and attendance has set records for four years straight. Relations with the players’ union are relatively placid. NBA players compete with global soccer stars for the largest social media followings.
May 4, 2018
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DJ Kaled has me thinking about the “Boca” episode of The Sopranos.
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I give this a 30% chance of being what’s happening. Kanye loves high concept stuff. I wouldn’t put it past him.
Also consider possibility it’s performance art that’s going horribly horribly wrong.
Get your tinfoil hats and red string, I’ve got a conspiracy theory: @kanyewest is in the middle of a performance art piece and the clues are right in front of us. A thread:
— Snowcone (@Snowcone965) May 2, 2018
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I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
Glenn Harvey I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely seven years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like…
May 3, 2018
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It’s tough being a Raptors fan right now. 😩
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An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons
I recently read Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons and have been evangelizing it so enthusiastically that I figured I’d do a quick writeup of its main points, and why it’s been so transformative to my thinking.
Elinor Ostrom’s work deals with common pool resource (CPR) management, for which she won a Nobel Prize in economics in 2009. She argues that current game theory doesn’t explain why some commons are, in fact, sustainably managed.
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May 2, 2018
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