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Saturday 3 March 2018

Attack Of The Good Boy Clones

Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.
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Morning · Sat, Mar 03
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TROUBLE IN TINSELTOWN
EVEN ROSE HAS HER THORNS
Under The Hollywood Gaslight
hazlitt.net
Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.
GETTING TO THE WOKEN PLACE
'Get Out' Should Win Best Picture, But Does The Movie Actually Need The Oscars?
digg.com
The Jordan Peele-directed social thriller is already a crowning achievement in so many ways. Does it really need the Oscars to validate it?
THE FOUR SAMANTHAS
Barbra Streisand Explains: Why I Cloned My Dog
nytimes.com
Barbra Streisand had one wonderful dog. Then, sort of, she had four. She explains.
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Inside The Bizarre ICO Bubble
wired.co.uk
In the booming world of crypto startups, you don't need a business plan to get rich. You just need an idea, and a coin
WHERE THE WHITE PEOPLE ARE
These Are The Zip Codes That Have Gentrified The Most Since 2000
digg.com
This gentrification top 10 list might surprise you — Brooklyn doesn't show up till number 7.
'I'M EXTREMELY DISCOURAGED'
A Small Town Kept Walmart Out. Now It Faces Amazon
citylab.com
How can local businesses compete with a company so local it lets people shop from their couches?
EXCEPT THE PAUL BROTHERS, UNFORTUNATELY
Almost No One Is Making A Living On YouTube
washingtonpost.com
Reaching the top 3.5 percent of YouTube's most-viewed channels — which means at least 1 million video views a month — is worth only about $12,000 to $16,000 a year in advertising revenue.
THE WEEK IN PHOTOS
PICTURE THIS
The Best Photography Of The Week
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A 75-year-old Christian interracial farming experiment, the invisible glow of flowers and the world of Lebanon's top 1 percent.
THE JOVIAN 'TWILIGHT ZONE'
The Week's Coolest Space Images
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Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
NOW THIS IS SOME GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP
Whoever Designed This Cheat Sheet Eraser Is A Genius
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We're going to give her or him an A+ for sheer ingenuity.
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Tired: Having a chill weekend. Wired: Cloning your dog.

Friday 2 March 2018

Now Don't Make Any Rasher Decisions

​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives.
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Morning · Fri, Mar 02
A BROKEN SYSTEM
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Bacon Still Causes Cancer, And Other Facts
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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives.
THE HOUSE DOESN'T ALWAYS WIN
The Lottery Hackers
highline.huffingtonpost.com
Jerry Selbee has always had an eye for puzzles and spotting patterns — which is how he discovered a lottery loophole that would eventually make he and his wife millionaires.
A GILDED PRISON
Why I Quit Google To Work For Myself
mtlynch.io
Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual employee survey asked me whether I expected to be at Google in five years, it was a no-brainer. But that wasn't what happened.
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THE GOOD NEWS FOR 'GET OUT'
Could There Be Another Oscars Upset? Here's What Our Data Says
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Psst, we've got a treasure trove of internet data here at Digg. We dug through it to see if Oscars predictions missed something about "Moonlight" last year — and what that says about this year
HARNESSING THE GROUP MIND
Here's How Everyone Else Is Predicting The Big Six Oscars Categories For 2018
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Best Picture, Best Director and all the acting categories were easy to call last year (with one big exception, of course). What do the internet's critics and experts think this year?
THEY KNOW WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING
THEY'RE ALWAYS WATCHING
The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed
theintercept.com
Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world.
'MAN, WHAT DID I DO?'
The Trouble With Stopping A Teenage Killer Before They Kill
theoutline.com
Josh Pillault was 19 when the U.S. government accused him of being a domestic terrorist.
YES, JUST LIKE 'NIGHTCRAWLER'
Riding Along With A Night Stringer, Chasing Car Crashes For Local News
gizmodo.com
Adam is what's known in local news as a stringer: the photographers and videographers that cruise the city documenting accidents, crimes, disasters of all sizes in the hopes of selling their footage to media outlets faster than their competitors.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THEY'RE TAKING OVER ANY DAY NOW
Cats Are Smart As Hell, In Case You Ever Doubted Their Intelligence
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"I am a smart, independent cat, and I don't need no humans to rescue my brethren."
IN THE NEWS
Markets Continue To Slide After Trump's Tariff Announcement
Nor'easter Set To Slam East Coast With Severe Winds, Rain And Flooding
Earliest Ancient Egyptian Tattoos Found On Mummies
FBI Counterintel Is Investigating Ivanka Trump Business Deal In Vancouver
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Thank god it's Friday, Nor'easter or not.