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Doctor and ‘Atlantic’ staff writer James Hamblin, the author of the one good story on COVID-19, unpacks what we should be worried about.
https://theoutline.com/post/8769/hand-washing-coronavirus?utm_source=TW&zr=4r2xf3ib&zd=1&zi=i26f5jx2
* published
* recently published
* one of those masks
* drones chasing people around
"I have always lived my life waking up each morning and asking myself, Aesthetically, who do I want to be today?" said Annamarie Tendler Mulaney, as she sat across from me in a bustling coffee shop in Manhattan's East Village, drinking a blood orange tea. On this particular day, Mulaney's aestheti
https://nylon.com/annamarie-tendler-mulaney-profile
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that billionaires should not exist, because concentrated is immoral and a threat to democracy. Those ides might seem radical to Sean Hannity. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-aocs-billionaires-taxes-hannity-american-democracy.html?fbclid=IwAR1PmMFIXB2fYVwd5ygXfMwCyzQMdbyfnyS6zuELsKCmTk2sSBVYuY4bfBk&utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign
* host’s telling
* more than $10 million
* 70 percent top marginal tax rate
* told the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates
* approvingly quoted
* pic.twitter.com/eKEELqUEzw
* January 24, 2019
* common sense
* a letter
* it was pervasive among its foot soldiers
* the earliest champions of an American welfare state
* A power over man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
* a large
* body
* of
* political
* science research
Pepe the Frog and other memes have become notorious for their role in radicalizing white supremacists in forums like 4chan’s /pol/, but the same mechanisms in memes that facilitate hate also can make them effective guides for what’s considered acceptable in society.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/27/17760170/memes-good-behavioral-science-nazi-pepe
* meme
* popularized, normalized
* radical white nationalist messages
* the cartoon frog
* new study funded by the European Union
* Evil Kermit meme
* overreacting
* blowing through your paycheck
* Nazi meme fodder
* paper
* Human Technology
* Rosanna Guadagno
* @sosadtoday
* study
* biggest online database and chronicler
* Scumbag Steve
* image macro
* resident meme librarian
* professor of psychology
* Psychology of the Digital Age
* reductio ad absurdum
* @emotionalclub
* Damaged but adorable
* Please don’t step on me, I’m trying to grow
* sentiment that’s echoed
* screenshot of Mister Rogers
* dropping ice on the floor
Over the last three decades, engineers and researchers in South Korea, China, Japan, the United States, and Europe have scrambled to develop safe, light, and powerful batteries that will let you charge your phone as often as you do your laundry.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/13/17675708/great-battery-war-steve-levine-powerhouse-book-interview
* a partnership
* planes
* even boats
* estimated
Mom don’t read this one. I love you very much and I will call soon I promise but don’t read this one ok because it’s about me jacking off just kidding it’s about a sore spot for me which is feeling like you’ve lost a piece of your loved ones to Fox News brain cancer. Or maybe do read it maybe it will be beneficial I don’t know I don’t know anything aside from this one thing which is that Fox News has stolen something from all of us. Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly and the rest have kidnapped and brainwashed many of our otherwise lovely and kind family members and I’ll piss on their graves one day with a huge fucking boner that makes it hard for the piss to come out and I’ll be like ah fuck and it’ll splash out weird. Don’t ask me why they’re buried next to each other it just makes sense.
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There’s an elephant in the room that I’ve been thinking about a lot over these last few weeks.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba
There had to be a breaking point. An incident, an argument, a loss, a moment that doomed the football marriage of Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy...
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2828649-what-happened-in-green-bay
* Aaron Rodgers
* Packers
* Cardinals
* barking
* Cincinnati
* NFL
* 49ers
* Patriots
* Dolphins
* Greg Jennings
* Jordy Nelson
* Randall Cobb
* ridiculous throw
* Bill Belichick
* Kansas City
* didn't sit well
* Pittsburgh macho.
* Seahawks
* bounced off his helmet
* thread of the needle
* Brett Favre
* cover
* of
* Sports Illustrated
* Famously
* comment
* own fans booing him
* Giants
* Colin Kaepernick
* Atlanta
* Julio Jones
* first public comments
* hinted
* @TyDunne
by Vincent Nikolayev Can video games be considered works of art?
https://www.refractmag.com/read/2018/1/30/video-games-as-art
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* Videogames Can Never be Art
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This is how Best Buy used a combination of corporate strategy and emotional intelligence to save itself from ruin.
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/amazon-almost-killed-best-buy-then-best-buy-did-something-completely-brilliant.html
While Apple Music isn’t a record label (yet), it did recently decide to add original art to its playlists. Its goal was to bring that instant recognition to its own content, so the company enlisted everyone from the creator of the iconic AC/DC logo to the person who designed the art for Migos’ chart-topping album Culture to make it happen.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/8/18256361/apple-music-art-original-playlists-design
* Hip Hop Hits
* Dale Reggaetón
* The Riff
* album Culture
* Hip Hop Hits
* Dale Reggaetón
At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, the country has defied critics who insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continent’s economic and financial crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/business/portugal-economy-austerity.html
* part-time
* one of the lowest
* one of the eurozone’s
* saddled
“Fortnite” is on its way to becoming the most popular — or at least the most addictive — game of all time. Since last September, the last-man-standing battle royale has been played by more than 125 million people.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/how-fortnite-became-the-most-popular-video-game-on-earth.html
* @EpicGames
* @FortniteGame
* pic.twitter.com/w7E5GTSvLh
* May 21, 2018
* the Drake stream
* exasperated lacrosse coach
* pic.twitter.com/oRONhkvpnK
* April 27, 2018
* pic.twitter.com/kifb7Le5t8
* April 29, 2018
* Fork Knife food truck
* posted
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* Everything You Need to Know About Drake’s Night Playing Fortnite With Ninja
Anthem is the next game from Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio BioWare, and it’s a game that looks to improve on the online, multiplayer storytelling found in games like Destiny and Fortnite.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18194445/bioware-anthem-storytelling-interview-ps4-xbox-pc
* the rocket launch
* rolling cube
* when someone kills you right before it happens
* aren’t even featured in the game itself
* dynamic, shared environmental storytelling
* the battle royale game featured an intense, dramatic snowstorm
* PS4
* PC
* Xbox One
The Ringer’s Best Shows of 2018 list is our attempt at presenting a broader picture of the year in TV. But the joy of watching television these days is that everyone can have a different favorite show.
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/12/3/18123279/2018-year-in-television
* here
* read
* list
* Larry David
* enthuse
* grow
* numbers
* generally positive
* than Eve’s
* the members of this website
* decried
* mea culpas
* time-honored tradition
* declared
* revise
* borrowed time
* musical odes to Jewish family dynamics
* drag queens paying homage to Grey Gardens
* almost instantly
* skeptics’ end
* literal Disney princess-dom
* ambiance
* exactingly glum
* nuance within unremitting darkness
* Definitively unsatisfying
* chilling clarity
* the most exciting new drama to arrive on Netflix in the past two years
* forced quirkiness
* wackadoodle pastiche
* borderline catatonic
* enjoyably languid
* liked
* universal
* validation
* treacly
* BoJack Horseman boosterism
* more than ever
* near-total Emmys sweep
* take a swing
* self-aware take
* named
* David
* skepticism
* down year
* dissenters
* guacamole truthers
* Star Wars
* Sundance indies
* launched podcasts
* cheese brands
How three guys and a half-baked idea changed online humor forever.
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/an-oral-history-of-funny-or-die/
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* “The Landlord”
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* Eva Longoria
* Don Cheadle
* Justin Bieber
* Paris Hilton video
* “Forehead Tittaes.”
* “Sense of Smell”
* Billy on the Street
* John C. Reilly
* Michael Cera
* Bruce Willis
* Sean Penn
* filming Obama
"Every act of future making is an act of future taking."
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15113162/future-utopia-tellart-design-agency-world-government-summit-dubai
* this rendering
* Song of the Machine
* assembling a rope bridge
* 2013 interview
* Human Rights Watch reports allege
* Elon Musk argued
The Fourth Industrial Revolution could bring mass global unemployment
https://theoutline.com/post/1316/fourth-industrial-revolution-developing-economies
* not worried at all
* 38 percent
* existing U.S. jobs
* PwC
* University of Oxford
* Industry 4.0
* exploded
* electronics factory in Shanghai
* 60,000 workers
* number of industrial robots
* disappearing across the globe
* a quarter
* 100 million people
* report
* dropped severely
* the demand for goods rise less relative to demand for services
* wealthy
* The New York Times
* Uberization
* replace is drivers with self-driving cars
* growing manufacturing workforce
* Industry 4.0 and its discontents
* 5 million (mostly white-collar) jobs
* adapt or perish
* two-thirds
* similarly bleak projections
John Oliver takes on the Trump era in our candid new cover story – read the official Rolling Stone Interview with TV's sharpest political satirist.
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/john-oliver-vs-the-trump-era-the-rolling-stone-interview-w464969
“I sound like Elmo,” Marques Brownlee, the 22-year-old tech reviewer behind the immensely popular YouTube channel MKBHD, says as he rewatches his first video review, a look at an HP laptop remote…
https://theringer.com/the-kid-who-revolutionized-youtubes-tech-reviews-a5b9a2a03a04#.jb1p4wplh
* YouTube channel MKBHD
* a look at
* poured an estimated $50,000
* Twitter
* Instagram
* Facebook
* according to SocialBlade
* Vic Gundotra called
* PewDiePie
* Grace Helbig
* interviewed Kobe Bryant
* been interviewed by Neil deGrasse Tyson
* The Huffington Post
* CNET
* TechnoBuffalo
* Soldier Knows Best
* boasts 1.5 million subscribers.
* multiple
* videos
* Fred
* their primary source of information and entertainment.
* a group of video collaborators
* New York Rumble of Major League Ultimate
* celebrating his millionth subscriber
My first morning in Altamonte Springs, Florida, I was faced with a dilemma: how to travel the two miles from my hotel to city hall without a car. Walking would take nearly an hour in the sweltering...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/1/12735666/uber-altamonte-springs-fl-public-transportation-taxi-system
* As Bloomberg noted last month
* need rides to work or the grocery store
* proposed having Uber respond to some 911 calls
* company recently offered
* company’s five-year anniversary
* Uber isn’t required
* Uber’s agreement with Boston requires
* In San Francisco
* an initiative
* this month the Bay Area suburb of Dublin
* pitching itself as a congestion-reducing alternative
* got the attention of a DC transit official, who said
* a summertime monthly pass
* partnership with WageWorks
* recently began testing in Pittsburgh
* Frank Bi
* James Bareham
* Josh Dzieza
Health insurers are fleeing Obamacare. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12538934/is-obamacare-failing
* pegged
* estimated
* 36 percent
* 9.1 percent
* vast majority
* promised
* one county
* 38 percent
* 28 percent
* must
* end up facing steep fines or even jail time
* one-third
* recent piece
* $17,545
* $422 billion
* held
* just as many
* Healthcare.gov
* 12.7 million
* projected
* one-third
Facebook 2026
By Casey Newton
By nearly any measure, Facebook has had a remarkable year. More than 1.65 billion people use the service every month, ma...
http://www.theverge.com/a/mark-zuckerberg-future-of-facebook
* internet.org
* that delivers data 10 times faster
* Facebook takes Flight.
* Telecom Infra Project
* Open Compute project
* Free Basics
* Read our full account of the launch here.
* when it goes live in San Jose, CA, later this year
* internet.org
* build an AI to manage your home
Facebook 2026
By Casey Newton
By nearly any measure, Facebook has had a remarkable year. More than 1.65 billion people use the service every month, ma...
http://www.theverge.com/a/mark-zuckerberg-future-of-facebook
* internet.org
* that delivers data 10 times faster
* Facebook takes Flight.
* Telecom Infra Project
* Open Compute project
* Free Basics
* Read our full account of the launch here.
* when it goes live in San Jose, CA, later this year
* internet.org
* build an AI to manage your home
Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room, eager to talk about intelligence. I was at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the company’s CEO was touting the company's progress in...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/7/12111028/microsoft-bot-framework-artificial-intelligence-satya-nadella-interview
* search for the killer bot
* opened up a bot development platform
* a forthcoming messenger app
* Home
* 3 million homes
* appeared
* Tay, was a fiasco
* said in a recent blog post
* announced it would spend $26.2 billion
* became widely (and freely) available the next year
* the slowest way to use the internet
The next time you shoot video with your phone, Nick Woodman wants you to edit it with GoPro software. Then he wants you to do that again and again and again. It will be so good and fast and easy...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837018/gopro-storyteller-desktop-app-video-editor-ceo-nick-woodman-interview
After more than a year of silence, Google's wildest idea about smartphones is starting to come true.
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/project-ara-lives-googles-modular-phone-is-ready/
After more than a year of silence, Google's wildest idea about smartphones is starting to come true.
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/project-ara-lives-googles-modular-phone-is-ready/
The rote tasks of any information-intensive job can be automated. It doesn’t matter if you are a doctor, lawyer, architect, reporter, or even programmer: The robot takeover will be epic.
http://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs/
I just sat down with Rafa Camargo and several members of his Project Ara team to learn more about the modular smartphone — because there's a lot going on with this thing. The project, which many...
http://www.theverge.com/google/2016/5/20/11723508/google-project-ara-modular-phone-photos-io-2016
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