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T. Greg Doucette is a criminal defense lawyer in North Carolina who also writes a legal blog. And he’s got some things to say: In a 43-part tweetstorm on Tuesday, Doucette recounted a recent experience defending a 17-year-old black teen from claims by a police officer that the teen was doing 360s in the middle of the street….
“Too slow,” where have we heard that one before? Getty Images cache miss 1613:single/related:1a31501ece0b7141312fc72c09a6000e empty There’s a story going around today that the Web is too slow, especially over mobile networks. It’s a pretty good story—and it’s a perpetual story. The Web, while certainly improved from the days of 14.4k modems, has never been as…
cache miss 76:single/related:84d703cc5bc68ed69388e6fe91d800d5 empty Google has a plan to speed up mobile Web browsing. The recently unveiled AMP—Accelerated Mobile Pages—project is an open source initiative that restricts certain elements of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to produce leaner Web pages “that are optimised to load instantly on mobile devices.” How much quicker is “instantly”? According to…
In October 2015, Wil Wheaton, well-known for his brief turn as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and as a celebrity blogger, created a stir when he declared that he had turned down an offer to write for the Huffington Post. He refused, according to him, because they had declined to pay for…
Photo Credit Ji Lee “Everybody does it,” is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton’s latest defense for making closed-door, richly paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts. A televised town…
Melissa Harris-Perry’s Email to Her #nerdland Staff On Friday afternoon, media reports emerged about my friend Melissa Harris-Perry’s refusal to host her eponymous weekend program on MSNBC on Saturday. I was one of the original producers on the show when it launched in 2012, leaving for another job in 2015. Dr. Harris-Perry asked me today…
Start Article Post Content At a certain point in “Gods of Egypt,” an extravagantly silly foray into Afroasiatic mythology from the director Alex Proyas, one wounded deity begs another to show him mercy — a futile request as far as his enemy is concerned, but one that may strike a more receptive chord with the…
Photo A glowing threat in “Gods of Egypt.” Credit Lionsgate Bosomy damsels and brawny slabs; cheering digital crowds; a lachrymose sphinx; a bedazzled Geoffrey Rush; a galactic cruise ship; an Egyptian god played by the Dane Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; the sword-and-sandals enabler Gerard Butler; a smoky monster that from one angle looks like a fanged doughnut…
Gods of Egypt is so ridiculous that I wish they would have just gone all the way with it. I’m not entirely sure what “all the way” with it means in this context. Making it a fully animated movie? Performing the whole thing while standing on their hands? Letting Tommy Wiseau direct? Converting it to…
Even months in advance, the director, Alex Proyas, had to apologize for the movie’s mainly white cast (it is, after all, set in ancient Egypt). In the last few days Gods has been bashed by nearly every review out there—here’s a roundup of some choice quotes: Here, at the New Republic, Will Leitch said that, “Gods…