If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.
—Kendrick Lamar
—Kendrick Lamar
In Interview On Record-Breaking Episode, ‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Puts His Foot In It
With its 636th having aired last weekend, The Simpsons now holds the record for most episodes of any scripted prime-time series. Said Groening, “I actually sometimes meet a famous actor and say, ‘Aw, you should do The Simpsonssometime.’ And they say, ‘I already did.'” But that’s not where he put his foot in it – his comment aboutthe Apu controversy is what has Twitter a-twitter.
In Interview On Record-Breaking Episode, ‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Puts His Foot In It
With its 636th having aired last weekend, The Simpsons now holds the record for most episodes of any scripted prime-time series. Said Groening, “I actually sometimes meet a famous actor and say, ‘Aw, you should do The Simpsonssometime.’ And they say, ‘I already did.'” But that’s not where he put his foot in it – his comment aboutthe Apu controversy is what has Twitter a-twitter.
Would You Ever Want To Be Able To Tap Into Someone Else’s Memories?
At some point in the future, could an A.I. company manufacture something akin to a neural bridge, allowing ordinary people to occasionally share their experiences? Maybe. Elon Musk recently announced the founding of Neuralink, a company that aims to put A.I. inside the head, merging humans and machines. Neural lace, the artificial hippocampus, brain chips to treat mood and memory disorders—these are just some of the mind-altering A.I. technologies already under development. While it may not be around the corner, a device akin to a temporary neural bridge—something that users can occasionally insert when they wish to share experiences—isn’t that far-fetched. … Read More
Kevin Roberts on Happiness and Inspiration from The Past (Part II).
In British Movie Theatres, Polish Immigrants Are Now A Major Demographic
"Like Bollywood, Polish cinema has flourished" - with some titles even making the weekly top 10 at the box office - "in UK multiplexes rather than arthouses, without any help from the British media. It is only partly true to say that the mainstream press has ignored these releases; what's more significant is that its attention and approval were never sought in the first place. With Polish now the second most commonly spoken language in England, English-speaking viewers are not part of this particular success story." … Read More
The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction went to The Book of Dirt, by Bram Presser -- and it also picked up the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, as well as the People's Choice Award; see the Text publicity page.
Unfortunately, the NSW Premier's Translation Prize is only biennial, and this was an off year for it.
Melbourne writer, criminal lawyer and punk rocker Bram Presser wins three of the 12 categories at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards with his inventive mix of family history and fiction
Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids Phys.org
↩︎ Sport photography - SB Nation
CLOCKWINDER, STREET SCRIBE: The Atlantic’s Alan
Taylor collected these images of people
doing work that likely will not exist in the next decade or two.
Writing in itself is a sort of cooking, a combining of ingredients:
sometimes the finished product turns all corners of our tastes, filling
us with joy, other times… Writing professors love to talk about craft. Carpentry and agrarian metaphors abound. Writing is difficult manual labor; pens and pencils are “tools.”…
This ocean path will take you on the longest straight-line journey on Earth Science Magazine
A tour through the maddeningly tedious canon of books by dictators leads one to ask: Does a savage autocrat lurk within every dreadful writer?...Dictators ;-)
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VULTURE CAPITALIST, A COURAGEOUS JOURNALIST: When the Boulder Daily Camera hired veteran journalist Dave
Krieger in 2014, the publisher couldn’t
stop praising his new hire. Krieger was popular on his return to his
hometown; he told it like it is, even publishing
one op-ed critical of the paper’s cost-cutting owner, known in the industry
as the “destroyer of papers.” On Tuesday, Krieger
was fired by that same publisher. “The verb the publisher used was
‘terminated,’” Krieger tweeted Tuesday night, adding: “As a euphemism for
fired, it's actually way worse. I'd much rather be fired than terminated.”
Krieger said he’d add more detail later, “but right now I'm going to have a
cocktail.” Supporters wished him well.
NO WAY: Tina Brown says she was approached by
disgraced talk show host Charlie Rose to produce a series in which he’d
interview Matt Lauer, Louis C.K. and other men fired or shunned after
widespread reports of sexual harassment. She rebuffed the overture. “These guys
are already planning their comebacks!” the New York Post quoted an outraged
Brown as saying at a luncheon this week.
DECEPTIVE LOAN PRACTICES: A self-described journalist who
claimed to specialize in student loan debt was so good at his hobby that he
became widely quoted in major media outlets, including the Washington Post, the
Boston Globe and CNBC. But Drew Cloud wasn’t real, the Chronicle of Higher
Education found
out. And now the company that created his persona — complete with a photo
of the supposed expert — is
apologizing, saying it is “Deeply sorry.”
Soft terms like ‘open’ and ‘sharing’ don’t tell true story of your data
VIEWPOINT: The government’s proposal does not make data more open. It encourages us to consent to vast exposure of our personal information, with or without de-identification measures.
Soft terms like ‘open’ and ‘sharing’ don’t tell true story of your data
VIEWPOINT: The government’s proposal does not make data more open. It encourages us to consent to vast exposure of our personal information, with or without de-identification measures.
LITTLE AWARD ON THE PRAIRIE: She had written
about failure, really — an undercapitalized family trying to dry-farm on
parched land unsuitable for it. Caroline Fraser, author of “Prairie Fires: The
American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” was in her Santa Fe home office two
weeks ago when her husband walked in, a funny smile on his face. “You just won
the Pulitzer Prize,” Fraser
recalled him saying. “It was quite surprising.” By Matt Grubs of the Santa
Fe Reporter.
POUR: This Hawaiian island got 50 inches of rain in 24 hours.
Scientists say it's
a warning of the future. By LAT's Heidi Chang.
BLESSED BE THE FRUIT: Quartz’s Lila MacLellan uses the
weekend’s start of season 2 of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” to tell
us almost everything we need to know about its remarkable creator — the
78-year-old Canadian poet, novelist and social media superstar Margaret Atwood.
One factoid: Atwood began writing “Tale” in Berlin and finished it a year later
during a teaching stint in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Steven Marcus, R.I.P.
Another side of Feynman
Zombie lit
Poetry and math
Jane Austen and the law
English after Trump
On page number
Sarcasm, texts, and emails
Nabokov on other writers
Sufi Freudian therapist
Sex scandal and the Nobel prize
God bless bad movies
Is science hitting a wall?
Plagiarism in medicine
What does a book editor do?
Norman Mailer in 2018
Crafting and happiness
Cookbooks for justice
Poetry and business
Paris Review's new editor
Scientific paper is obsolete
Another side of Feynman
Zombie lit
Poetry and math
Jane Austen and the law
English after Trump
On page number
Sarcasm, texts, and emails
Nabokov on other writers
Sufi Freudian therapist
Sex scandal and the Nobel prize
God bless bad movies
Is science hitting a wall?
Plagiarism in medicine
What does a book editor do?
Norman Mailer in 2018
Crafting and happiness
Cookbooks for justice
Poetry and business
Paris Review's new editor
Scientific paper is obsolete
'Quarantined from the rest of Sydney': Why Bondi Beach never got a train
It's the most talked about traino
that never was — but the real reasons Australia's tourist hotspot of
Bondi Beach has not got a rail link might surprise you.