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How Trump’s Calls to World Leaders Are Upsetting Decades of Diplomacy – The New York Times

Max Fisher and Josh Keller8 years ago07 mins

President-elect Donald J. Trump has broken with decades of diplomatic practice in freewheeling calls with foreign leaders. close story-meta-footer close story-meta ====================================================== THIS IS A GENERATED TEMPLATE FILE. DO NOT EDIT. ====================================================== this file is generated from src/style.less Dec. 2 Mr. Trump talks to the president of Taiwan, becoming the first U.S. president or president-elect…

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Here’s a Map of the Right-Wing Fake News Ecosystem

Mathew Ingram8 years ago08 mins

.entry-header Jonathan Albright, a professor at Elon University in North Carolina, is an expert in data journalism who has worked for both Google and Yahoo. He specializes in media analytics and social networks, and he has created a network map or topology that describes the landscape of the fake-news ecosystem. Even if Facebook and Google…

The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation – Born Again Minimalist

Caitlin8 years ago018 mins

.entry-header .entry-meta I was in graduate school when I first heard the term “millennial.” It was at a conference. The session was about how to serve millennial students, because they have different characteristics than the Generation X students that went before them. It was here that I first started hearing things like “millennials need to…

Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos – The New Yorker

Jia Tolentino8 years ago017 mins

Hide CM floating unit In her 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” Ivanka Trump employs an audacious strategy: she portrays all of her advantages as handicaps. Credit Photograph by Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux Barrier Status: ‘none’ Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In…

What makes celebrity meltdowns entertainment instead of tragedy? | David Ferguson | Opinion | The Guardian

David Ferguson8 years ago08 mins

When I was in my 20s, I remember my therapist patiently listening to me complain about how out-of-my-depth I often felt around other gay men. I was asking her why they always seemed so effortlessly aloof and cool, whereas I was – and to some extent, still am – a slobbering golden retriever of a…

Maria Schneider’s story is no surprise – Hollywood has always treated women as commodities

Helen Lewis8 years ago8 years ago011 mins

From Last Tango in Paris to Basic Instinct, we are now discovering the unsavoury truth about sex scenes. “This must be the most powerfully erotic movie ever made, and it may turn out to be the most liberating movie ever made,” gushed the critic Pauline Kael about Last Tango in Paris in 1972. The anonymous sex between Paul (Marlon Brando)…

Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their feelings

Laurie Penny8 years ago012 mins

Why are so many robots designed to resemble women? The question is becoming inescapable as more and more AIs, which do not need to have a gender, appear on the market with female voices and female faces, including Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and a new wave of uncannily lifelike sexbots marketed almost exclusively to men….

Once Upon a Time in the Singularity: ‘Westworld’ and the Gamification of Who Gets to Be Human | Village Voice

Kameron Hurley8 years ago011 mins

A wall of white and black hats. Terrifying darkness. A woman staggering through a medical facility with her guts ripped open. And always, in the background: the player piano ticking along according to its programming, playing modern-day ballads to the denizens of a future world. Welcome to Westworld, a slick new HBO production that promises…

The Age of Post-Truth Politics – The New York Times

William Davies8 years ago014 mins

close story-meta Facts hold a sacred place in Western liberal democracies. Whenever democracy seems to be going awry, when voters are manipulated or politicians are ducking questions, we turn to facts for salvation. But they seem to be losing their ability to support consensus. PolitiFact has found that about 70 percent of Donald Trump’s “factual”…

Wikipedia users are revolting against Donald Trump’s inner circle | Reveal

Byard Duncan8 years ago07 mins

In the week following Donald Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, another battle has quietly ramped up on Wikipedia. An examination of the edit histories of pages belonging to Trump’s inner circle reveals a skirmish of vandalisms, revisions and fantastical falsehoods. The tweaks are made visible by “WikiWash,” an online tool developed by Metro News Canada and The…

The Joe Manchin Trolley Problem

What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Content Is Worthless, Glasses are the new phones or whatever

Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

Retailers Are Opening Themselves To Programmatic – But Will They Regret It? | AdExchanger

What we know about Google’s upcoming adtech antitrust trial – and how it might play out | The Drum

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How Trump’s Calls to World Leaders Are Upsetting Decades of Diplomacy – The New York Times

Here’s a Map of the Right-Wing Fake News Ecosystem

The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation – Born Again Minimalist

Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos – The New Yorker

What makes celebrity meltdowns entertainment instead of tragedy? | David Ferguson | Opinion | The Guardian

Maria Schneider’s story is no surprise – Hollywood has always treated women as commodities

Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their feelings

Once Upon a Time in the Singularity: ‘Westworld’ and the Gamification of Who Gets to Be Human | Village Voice

The Age of Post-Truth Politics – The New York Times

Wikipedia users are revolting against Donald Trump’s inner circle | Reveal