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N.W.A.’s “Fuck tha Police” Broadcasts on Loop Over Police Scanners | Pitchfork

N.W.A.’s “Fuck tha Police” Broadcasts on Loop Over Police Scanners New Zealand police say the illegal broadcast is putting citizens “in danger” N.W.A. N.W.A. in 1989; photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images N.W.A. ’s classic “Fuck the Police” has been illegally broadcasting over the…

Jan 10, 2018

Who Got the Camera? N.W.A.'s Embrace of "Reality," 1988-1992 | Pitchfork

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This is an excerpt from The Pitchfork Review Issue Five, which is available now through the magazine's website and select retailers . Get your subscription here . Illustration by Meaghan Garvey "Express Yourself" was N.W.A’s obvious shot at radio airplay. There was no cursing in the verses to…

Jan 10, 2018

How Scripto, the App That Stephen Colbert Helped Build, Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News

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Scripto was conceived in 2010, when Stephen Colbert and one of his writers, Rob Dubbin, right, an amateur coder, first discussed making a drafting program for the staff of “The Colbert Report.” Photograph by Scripto Two months ago, a group of reporters and comedy writers crowded into aconference…

Jan 10, 2018

Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Millet, and More French Women Sign Letter Against #MeToo

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Image via Getty A letter published in the newspaper Le Monde, signed by 100 French women, argues that the #MeToo movement has gotten out of hand. “Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly is not, nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” the letter read,…

Jan 10, 2018

What to Do With a Man Who Has a Story, and a Gun

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Lisa Romeo | Longreads | January 2018 | 11 minutes (2,767 words) My boyfriend said it with such confidence, such nonchalance. “Don’t worry. You’re safe in here, and I’ll be back in an hour.” He shut the bedroom door behind him as he left, and I heard his key in the padlock on the other side — the…

Jan 7, 2018

Design Didn’t Make Uber Good, But It Made Uber Great

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I’ll never forget my first Uber. As cheesy as that sounds, I’m sure the feeling is shared by many of us of a certain age. Finding myself stuck on the sleepy streets of San Francisco’s Nob Hill after midnight, not a cab in sight, I hit a button on my phone, a car drove up a few minutes later, and I…

Jan 6, 2018

Sonos says users must accept new privacy policy or devices may "cease to function"

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(Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) Sonos has confirmed that existing customers will not be given an option to opt out of its new privacy policy, leaving customers with sound systems that may eventually "cease to function". It comes as the home sound system maker prepares to begin collecting audio…

Jan 6, 2018

Dark Patterns: The Ways Websites Trick Us Into Giving Up Our Privacy

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Image: Wesson Wang / Unsplash Open up a web browser or power up a smartphone—pretty much essential for modern-day living—and you’re walking straight into a privacy minefield. That much you know. Especially after the news earlier this week that Unroll.me, a popular service that lets you unsubscribe…

Jan 6, 2018

Designers are using “dark UX” to turn you into a sleep-deprived internet addict

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Last week, Facebook rolled out an update to the design of its News Feed. The design tweaks—near imperceptible pixel spacing and color enhancements—were meant to make Facebook’s infinitely updating cascade of stories even easier to consume and comment on. “Small changes, like a few extra pixels of…

Jan 6, 2018

What Comes After User-Friendly Design?

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“User-friendly” was coined in the late 1970s, when software developers were first designing interfaces that amateurs could use. In those early days, a friendly machine might mean one you could use without having to code. Forty years later, technology is hyper-optimized to increase the amount of time…

Jan 6, 2018

"You Can’t Make This S--- Up": My Year Inside Trump's Insane White House

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Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now details the feuds, the fights and the alarming chaos he witnessed while reporting what turned into a new book. Editor’s Note: Author and Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire…

Jan 6, 2018

Limor Fried: building electronic dreams

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She’s the MIT hacker and engineer who burst onto the DIY electronics scene when she founded open-source hardware company Adafruit in 2005. Meet Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried. Best known for Adafruit Industries, the New York City-based open-source hardware company she founded in 2005, Limor Fried is the…

Jan 6, 2018

It's Been an Open Secret All Along

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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Three months ago, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New York Times unloaded their first big report about Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of sexual aggressiveness and abuse, the depth of detail made the story unforgettable—and as it turned out, historic. Real women went on…

Jan 6, 2018

“Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up”: Inside Silicon Valley’s Dark Side

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Romans of the Decadence (1847), by Thomas Couture, as updated to parody Silicon Valley’s male-dominated sexual and sexist culture. Photo Illustration by Darrow. About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon ValleyTechnorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party. Sometimes the…

Jan 6, 2018

Dave Chappelle Stumbles Into the #MeToo Moment

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In “The Bird Revelation,” the first comedy special to focus on the #MeToo movement, Dave Chappelle, sitting on a stool at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in November, pauses to give advice to some comedians in the back. “You have a responsibility to speak recklessly,” he says. In that special and a…

Jan 6, 2018

Post Weinstein, How We Will Be Covering the Red Carpets

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The Reader Center is one way we in the newsroom are trying to connect with you, by highlighting your perspectives and experiences and offering insight into how we work. Choire Sicha was hired in September as the new editor of The New York Times Styles section . Red carpets have always been a clash…

Jan 4, 2018

Interactive Art Director becomes Design Lead - Here's why

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##Meet Nico, who has been a member of the program steering committee for 7 years. Nico currently works for Microsoft in Seattle. What’s the future of the Design Lead Program? The program differs from the other programs, especially because of the fact that you need a year of experience. It still has…

Jan 4, 2018

Girl, Send Me a Frext – Matter – Medium

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How female friends have turned sexting into an act of bonding and empowerment By Alana Levinson Illustration by Amanda S. Lanzone The first time I saw my best friend half-naked was late one night on the small lit up screen of my iPhone. “Do you like??” she texted, and attached a picture of herself…

Jan 3, 2018

How To Change The Story In Your Head That’s Stopping You From Succeeding

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Story A few years ago, at a private event, Google founder Larry Page told a rapt audience that the way he evaluates prospective companies and entrepreneurs is by a single metric — asking them if what they’re working on was something that could “change the world.” It’s both an inspired way to look at…

Jan 3, 2018

Ridley Scott Explains The Difference Between Christopher Plummer & Kevin Spacey's Performance In 'All The Money In The World'

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So, how on Earth did Ridley Scott reshoot 22 scenes in “ All The Money In The World ,” with Christopher Plummer replacing disgraced actor Kevin Spacey , a mere six weeks before the film was scheduled to open? You simply get it done. “I move like lightning. I’m already two scenes ahead. It’s simple!…

Jan 3, 2018

7 unusual fonts created in 2017 – Prototypr

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Some of the fonts listed below explore new technologies in font engineering, other push boundaries of “regular” font developing process, but all of them are one-of-a-kind hallmark of 2017. FIT by David Jonathan Ross Fit is one of the first typefaces available in the brand new OpenType variable font…

Jan 3, 2018

The Deepest Cut: The Hidden Emotion of Joel and Ethan Coen’s ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’ by Mike D’Angelo

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Over the course of their three-decade career, Joel and Ethan Coen have buried a man alive, fed a body into a woodchipper, and shot a grinning Brad Pitt in the face at point-blank range. The most vicious act in their oeuvre, though, involves no physical violence whatsoever. It’s the blunt verdict…

Jan 3, 2018

At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment

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Viceland, a Vice Media television channel, celebrated the start of a show at Comic Con in San Diego in July. Credit Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for VICELAND By One woman said she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event when a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his…

Jan 3, 2018

Which Rap Albums in 2017 Were Good and Which Ones Were Bad?

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Shea : Justin, for this article I have a very simple idea: Let’s you and I go through some rap albums that came out this year and decide if they were good or bad. Can we do that? Let’s do that. And you’re only allowed to pick from one of those two words. There’s no alternate option. Justin : The…

Jan 3, 2018

The Parable of Juicero: A Tech Lesson for 2017

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In 2015—long before the name Juicero became unofficial shorthand for Silicon Valley snake oil—Doug Evans appeared on Ventured , a podcast run by his investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers . For the past two years, the founder had been operating the company in “stealth mode,” an industry term for…

Jan 3, 2018

A Few Crucial Instances of Grace – Dave Eggers – Medium

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Insight and justice at the end of the worst year in American political history. We must be grateful for the smallest of blessings. Last week I saw and heard some things that provided a measure of hope and nuance in these grim and hysterical times. First, in San Francisco I saw two formidable legal…

Jan 3, 2018

Let’s Talk About That Scene in Mother!

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Jennifer Lawrence, pre-screaming. Photo: Paramount Pictures Spoilers for Mother! below No one said watching Mother! was going to be easy. Indeed, writer-director Darren Aronofsky recently told Vulture that he wanted audiences to be “ prepped that it’s a very intense ride ,” that it’s “a cruise…

Jan 3, 2018

“The Case Against the Jedi” Takes on Toxic Masculinity in Star Wars

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The brilliant minds over at Pop Culture Detective changed the way that I see the Jedi Order in Star Wars in a mere 25 minutes. The same folks who created the excellent video about “adorkable” misogyny in The Big Bang Theory and coined the “ Born Sexy Yesterday ” trope have a new video that’s a…

Jan 3, 2018

Another car got stuck inside the TTC's Queens Quay tunnel

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City Lauren O'Neil Posted 7 months ago Report Inaccuracy Another car got stuck inside the TTC's Queens Quay tunnel City Lauren O'Neil Posted 7 months ago Report Inaccuracy Stay in the loop Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. It looks like someone in Toronto finished off 2017 with a bang…

Jan 3, 2018

42 Directors Pick Their Favorite Movies of 2017, Including Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, and More

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As the year comes to a close, there’s one group we’ve yet to hear from about the Best of 2017: the directors. IndieWire has reached out to a number of our favorite filmmakers to share with us their lists and thoughts on the best of the year. From Benny Safdie breaking down the brilliance of “Nathan…

Jan 3, 2018