Brooklyn Beta vs. Afro-Futurism — Human Parts — Medium
Is ‘authenticity’ another word for exclusion? The tech and design industries, like Portlandia, are worryingly minority-f… Brooklyn Beta vs. Afro-Futurism — Human Parts — Medium.
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Journalism From Location, Without Destination
Building a journalism organization that exists mostly (or only) on social media and other platforms makes a kind of weird sense. After all, where would Twitter or Facebook be without the commercial driving power of media organizations using and advertising on them? After all those years of our words helping them make money, shouldn’t they…
Some Outlets Are Censoring Charlie Hebdo’s Satirical Cartoons After Attack – BuzzFeed News
Updated with more comment from an AP spokesperson WASHINGTON — News organizations around the world are facing a dilemma about how to portray cartoons of Muhammad by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a deadly attack on its offices Wednesday — and some are choosing to respond by censoring or cropping out photos of…
Financial Times Calls Charlie Hebdo ‘Stupid’ for ‘Provoking Muslims’
Hours after 12 editors and cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were executed by Islamic extremists, the Financial Times‘s editorial board published a strongly-worded editorial criticizing the magazine for their “editorial foolishness.” “If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of…
Chicago Tribune Lets CEO Push Business Interests Without Disclosure
The Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the CEO of Caterpillar, a manufacturer of large construction equipment, which advocated for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline but failed to disclose Caterpillar’s significant financial stake in the pipeline’s construction. The January 7 op-ed in the Tribune by Caterpillar chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman advocated for…
THE LAZARUS EFFECT Trailer: Olivia Wilde Comes Back From The Dead To Wail On The Living
THE LAZARUS EFFECT Trailer: Olivia Wilde Comes Back From The Dead To Wail On The Living Stop resurrecting dead folks, guys. It never turns out well. “http://www.youtube.com/embed/BCUeFQ1E1xM?rel=0” frameborder= “0” allowfullscreen=””> On the one hand, The Lazarus Effect looks pretty generic. I anticipated most of the beats in the trailer without knowing a thing about it other than…
Among the Disrupted – NYTimes.com
Photo Credit Joon Mo Kang close shareTools Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the disrupted. The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry. Writers hover between a decent poverty…
Explosion outside NAACP in Colorado deliberate, FBI says – LA Times
An explosion outside an NAACP office building in Colorado on Tuesday morning that rattled neighbors was caused deliberately, officials say. An improvised explosive device was detonated against the exterior wall of the NAACP building on South El Paso Street in Colorado Springs around 10:45 a.m. Mountain time. No one was injured, said Amy Sanders, a…
6 things I learned from riding in a Google Self-Driving Car – The Oatmeal
Last week, a friend and I got a sneak peek at Google’s new self-driving cars. In addition to spending an afternoon cheating on my Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder, I got to chat with the engineers about the project. 1. Human beings are terrible drivers. We drink. We doze. We text. In the US,…
Two body builders argue on the internet about how many days are in the week | Death and Taxes
Jan 5, 2015 Members of the forum on BodyBuilding.com attempted to tackle one of the most confounding problems of our age: How many days are in a week? Much like Bertrand Russell’s quest to cast aside axiomatic approximations and rebuild the foundations of mathematics using air-tight, sound logic, the thread begins with a user appropriately…