I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. | | | | Rutger Hauer (RIP) and Sylvester Stallone in "Nighthawks" (1981).
(Universal Pictures) | | | | |  | “I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”
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| | rantnrave:// Good to be back, I've missed REDEF, writing, curating, and you... While many in "HOLLYWOOD" obsess over the coming streaming video wars, the newest, most interesting streaming media battle is in video gaming. Many expect cloud delivery of gaming, led by GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and SONY, will lead to a massive expansion in industry value – with the number of gamers growing into the billions, and gaming displacing much of the time currently allocated to TV. Entertainment is a business of minutes. In our newest REDEF Original, MATTHEW BALL, with an assist from YOICHI WADA, long-time SQUARE ENIX CEO (maker of FINAL FANTASY, TOMB RAIDER, etc.), break this down. They see long-term opportunity outside Capital-G “Gaming,” but see only modest growth potential in the category itself. Why? The answer is in the history of gaming and TV – and it tells you a lot about the future of both. Learn from these two in "The Mirage of Cloud Gaming (And How to Reach the Oasis)"... It isn't just about plastic bottles and litter. Music festivals are paying attention to everything from what kind of tent you bring to what brand of glitter you wear, and other corners of the business are starting to watch their carbon footprints, too. Are they doing enough? MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS explores in MusicSET: "Green Days: The Music Biz Tackles the Environment"... BILL CLINTON could read a book, do a crossword puzzle and negotiate a trade deal—at the same time. One of BARACK OBAMA's strategies for winning primaries was playing basketball on the day of each one. If the WHITE HOUSE walls could talk, this is what they'd say. "Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential Oral Histories"... You know what I love? Let's say someone asks you to help with a favor that takes time. And you do it, only to find they asked someone else and wasted my time. Yeah, I love that... Happy Birthday ZANDER LURIE, CRAIG HUNEGS. BRIAN CELLER. LARS MURRAY, MICHAEL MADNICK, and CORY TREFFILETTI. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Cloud game delivery and 'Netflix of Gaming' are the big new 'things' in media today. But they're unlikely to deliver the player or playtime growth that many expect. | | |
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 | Lawfare |
| For those who want to figure out what Mueller has said about Trump, here is a list: all of Trump’s actions as detailed in the Mueller report. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having--and losing--a superpower. | | |
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 | Hakai Magazine |
| Our global food system discards 46 million tonnes of fish each year. Why? | | |
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 | Esquire |
| How Stan Smith went from a "decent" tennis player to the most popular trainer on the planet | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The story of Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge fantasy as seen through the eyes of the ragtag crew he created to take down the Nazis. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| From D’Angelo’s infamously slow creative pace to Frank Sinatra’s rapid-fire release schedule, our expectations of artists’ output have always been in flux. | | |
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 | Krebs on Security |
| Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here's a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for you, and what it says about the value of your identity. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing - and changing us. Amazon is wonderful. Amazon is terrible. In 2019, both of these contradictory statements ring true. | | |
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 | Big Tech Show |
| Zander Lurie is the boss of the world’s biggest online survey company.The Nasdaq-listed firm has over 17m users and is expanding all over the world.Lurie reflects on the process by which he became SurveyMonkey CEO after the tragic passing in 2015 of his friend Dave Goldberg, husband of Sheryl Sandberg and former chief executive of SurveyMonkey. | | |
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 | On My Om |
| Earlier this week, the "New York Post" reported that the cover of the July 29th issue of Time magazine, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon, is "brought to you by Jimmy Dean" and features a front cover flap with "an ad on its underside 'celebrating 50 years of quality sausage.'" The decades have certainly been kinder to sausage than they have to magazines. | | |
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 | HuffPost |
| "I don’t need a pair of Nikes. I need a 401(k)" -- and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site. | | |
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 | CNET |
| Craig Newmark is a self-proclaimed nerd and reformed jerk. Now he's putting money behind his politics. | | |
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 | The United States Department of Justice |
| "Of all that has changed over the last 30 years, cyber-related issues and cybersecurity may well be the most significant difference between my first tenure as Attorney General and this one. Since taking office in February, I have spent a significant amount of time getting up to speed on the developments in this important area." | | |
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 | Detroit Free Press |
| The duo propelled Detroit garage rock onto the global stage. Here's how they rose to stardom. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs--at the expense of everyone else. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| He might be the most beloved--and famous--person in the Dominican Republic. So why would someone shoot David Ortiz? And how could it be mistaken identity, as police have said? A visit to the island yielded few answers--but raised plenty more questions. | | |
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 | Next Reality |
| Why do you need augmented reality? Because enterprise, they say. And while that's certainly true for several disciplines, there's still that mainstream use case hanging out there waiting for users to discover beyond the realm of enterprise and gaming. | | |
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 | The MIT Press Reader |
| A combination of greed, colonial mismanagement, and gross incompetence has brought Nauru, once dubbed ‘Pleasant Island,’ to the brink of collapse. | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| The exploration for and mining of certain metals has driven huge epochs of human civilization, from copper and iron to gold and diamonds. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The summer I was eighteen, I visited a parking lot forty-five minutes north of town and got behind the wheel for what I hoped would be the first real rite of my adulthood. I was tall, gangly, excitable. | | |
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