In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. | | | | | Alexandre Rodrigues as 'Rocket' in "City of God" (2002) (Miramax Films) | | | | |  | “In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
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| | rantnrave:// Watching the talk shows, listening to podcasts, and reading more about TURKEY. I have a slightly revised take on my glee and knee-jerk reaction to RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN possibly being out of power. I think he misrepresented democracy, continues to consolidate power and slowly take away basics of a democracy but maybe a coup is not the right mechanism to get him out. And even so, hopefully, this coup drives him the right direction of internal unity rather than further divide. History would suggest otherwise. There is clearly a schism. What he does now will say a lot about future freedoms and voices. I'm skeptical... POKÉMON GO finally got on my nerves. I was taking a late afternoon walk and all of the sudden tons of kids raided the track I walk at. They looked like a cross between ONE DIRECTION and GOOD CHARLOTTE. The raid was so sudden it was like a troupe of dancers in a musical rushing the stage. Like the gang scene in WEST SIDE STORY. 4 times they walked into me because they were looking at their phones. They were like zombies. Creepy. They reminded me of the GUILTY REMNANT from HBO's THE LEFTOVERS. Usually, I'm alone there with 80-year-olds. They swarmed. I had visions of THE RUNTS from CITY OF GOD... Ran into my friend REAGAN yesterday. He's someone that sees the political landscape differently than I do but we have interesting and civil discussions about it. Then it ends and we move onto other stuff. I wish the internet and the world were like that. But instead, we are going to a more binary and ruthlessly partisan world. Dismissive, mean, hateful, intolerant. This is the great shame of political leadership of the last 20 years... Friends doing well: JON PATRICOF at NYCFC. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Washingtonian |
| Inside the conflict that broke up a Washington media juggernaut. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Redlight camera tickets aren’t just a nuisance to drivers, they also cost cities millions. | | |
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 | Al Jazeera English |
| The Turkish government says it's now in full control after a faction of the military attempted a coup. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| After his death, friends and colleagues of Michael Elliott, chief executive officer of Bono's ONE campaign, recall how he lived his life to his fullest while trying to do good for others. | | |
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 | POLITICO |
| A year after Obama's crowning diplomatic achievement, the fight against it is very much alive. And it might be succeeding. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Even his less provocative behavior in the show's famous boardroom signaled troublesome traits that would later emerge on the campaign trail - a penchant for dividing teams against each other, blunt insults and occasional bullying. In an interview in his Trump Tower office, Mr. Trump said that the difference between his reality show and his presidential bid was, simply, one of magnitude. | | |
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 | Medium |
| These are issues faced by many companies at some point in their lifetime. From a business standpoint it becomes clear that the current organisational structure and technical architecture will mostly likely hinder the progress of the company in the long term. The day 1 goal of the company still stands true. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Any large and alienating infrastructure controlled by a technocratic elite is bound to provoke. In particular, it will nettle those who want to know how it works, those who like the thrill of transgressing, and those who value the principle of open access. | | |
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 | Peter Diamandis |
| People are concerned about how AI and robotics are taking jobs and destroying livelihoods... reducing our earning capacity, and subsequently destroying the economy. In anticipation, countries like Canada, India and Finland are running experiments to pilot the idea of “universal basic income” - the unconditional provision of a regular sum of money from the government to support livelihood independent of employment. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| Amazon's voice assistant Alexa has become a hugely popular and growing business. In fact, David Limp, an Amazon senior vice president who oversees Alexa and all of its Amazon devices, says that Alexa is rapidly adding "skills," with more than 1,000 people working on it. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| It was supposed to be the culmination of a week of glorious and over-the-top catwalk shows in Rome for the biannual Alta Moda Alta Roma where for seven days straight, fashion elite, designers and celebrities had gathered to bask in the latest haute-couture offerings. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Since its inception, the agency has wooed filmmakers, producers, and actors in order to present a rosy portrait of its operations to the American public. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| “Obviously, this is Walt Disney’s attempt to add childhood expectation to the cultural debate over the role of women in the military,” Pence wrote. Obviously. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| White rappers. How many of us love them? To be a white rapper is a tough row to hoe in an industry with a complex overlay of cultural, social, and capitalist demands. Questions get raised: Are you real enough? Does your background matter? | | |
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 | Curbed |
| The recent return toward living and socializing in urban centers, and the corresponding hyper-growth of city centers that has followed, is having its effect on the longtime stalwart businesses in these areas, which are often strip clubs. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Since taking the reins of 21st Century Fox, James and Lachlan Murdoch have made changes big and small, but have largely left Fox News alone. Now they have little choice but to step in. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Gobbetti oversaw strong profits at Céline - now he is taking on the task of turning around the struggling British fashion brand | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Pro Bowlers Duane Brown and Eric Reid speak out on recent shootings that roiled the country, and the athlete’s role in the dialogue for change. | | |
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 | Real Life |
| When you’re grieving, a phone can become an optical instrument, turning magical thinking to magical realism | | |
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 | Quartz |
| 10 years after the country formerly known as the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| When Beyoncé released her album “Lemonade” earlier this year, it took America by surprise, and not because she dropped it unexpectedly on a Saturday evening, or that it fueled speculation that her marriage was in trouble. | | |
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