The idea of the “director’s cut” is mythologized in cinema culture because it represents the triumph of a personal vision over studio mandates and the redemption of art that never got its proper due. For example, Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai includes a poetic meditation on the pursuit of the director’s cut in the gorgeous new Criterion collection of his films: “As the saying goes: ‘no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.’ [...] I invite the audience to join me on starting afresh, as these are not the same films, and we are no longer the same audience,” he writes.
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The New York Times – “An Israel Museum exhibition explores the complicated relationship between the hieroglyphs of antiquity and emoji, the lingua franca of the digital age… An exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, “Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing From Hieroglyphs to the Emoji,” highlights the seemingly obvious, but also complicated, relationship between the iconic communication system from antiquity and the lingua franca of the cyber age. A visual and linguistic exercise in time travel, “Emoglyphs” juxtaposes the once indecipherable pictogram writing of ancient Egypt, which first developed about 5,000 years ago, with the more accessible and universal usage of pictograms that originated in Japan in the late 1990s…A chart at the entrance of the exhibition pairs a column of hieroglyphs with a column of emojis. The similarities are uncanny: There’s no need for translation…”
TechDirt: “Location data is the new growth market. Data harvested from apps is sold to data brokers who, in turn, sell this to whoever’s buying. Lately, the buyers have been a number of government agencies, including the CBP, ICE, DEA, Secret Service, IRS, and — a bit more worryingly — the Defense Department. The mileage varies for purchasers. The location data generally isn’t as accurate as that obtained directly from service providers. On the other hand, putting a couple of middle men between the app data and the purchase of data helps agencies steer clear of Constitutional issues related to the Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision, which introduced a warrant mandate for engaging in proxy tracking of people via cell service providers…”