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Nick Denton
@nicknotned
Creator of personal publishing systems. Formerly FT. Established Lifehacker, Kotaku, Gizmodo etc (acquired) and Gawker (RIP). Next, a storymaking app.
SoHo, Manhattandialogengineers.comJoined November 2006

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US news summary for the last 160 years... Blues have consolidated their advances in the Virginia Tidewater and other coastal areas. Meanwhile Reds hold their gains in Appalachia and the Great Plains.
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For followers of Carl Sagan, the prophet of humanism, some holy relics.
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The Library of Congress digitized a treasure trove of materials from Carl Sagan’s life—including early Cosmos drafts, NASA proposals, correspondences with Neil deGrasse Tyson, audio recordings, and over 30 minutes of home movie footage buff.ly/2I07Je5
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This is incredible — we’re just at the beginning of the revolution in computational photography.
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the funniest thing about when the singularity hits will be that we hit it using machine/deep-learning... so we'll still have no idea how consciousness and intelligence actually works despite creating it good luck explaining how ML upgraded this footage dpreview.com/news/646620453
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BTW, here is a definitive account of Epstein's behavior, including lots of famous names, from Gawker. (I assumed for most of 2015-2016 that this would come back and explode during HRC's administration.) gawker.com/flight-logs-pu
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I wonder how many male pols are spending the day quietly brooding on that time (just once, I swear!) they took that private jet with Jeffrey Epstein....
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Genuine inclusivity means accepting the religious, the traditional, the non-conformists and the reactionary and allowing them to live as they choose as well - not just gay, the trans and the culturally non-wasp.
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RIP to John Bogle who died today. This guy took many billions of dollars out of Wall Street’s pocket and gave it to regular people without even making himself a billionaire in the process. An unlikely but effective class warrior.
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First they came for the newsfeeds. Then they came for the “large groups” and message forwarding. And in the end?
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Closed forums on social media are pretty much the only place where intelligent debates held in good faith can be held. I'm also pretty keen the police and security services aren't involved in my private conversations too
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Reaction is the enemy of creation. Creation requires deep sustained focus. This focus is under constant attack by "notifications" that encourage you to respond to unending false emergencies. Protect your attention and direct it to where it is most valuable.
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I'm increasingly thinking that every functioning system has two forms: The abstraction that outsiders are led to believe, and the reality that insiders actually and carefully operate. You don't incrementally learn a system. You eventually unlearn its necessary lies.
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Travis Kalanick probably did more for racial equality than your favorite activist.
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"Black riders were 73 percent more likely than white riders to have a taxi trip cancelled and waited 6-15 minutes longer than white riders, all else equal. By contrast, ridehail services nearly eliminate the racial-ethnic differences in service quality" escholarship.org/uc/item/4r22m5 twitter.com/ucla_its/statu
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A reminder from Politico that American politics is pay-to-play — and the only thing remarkable about Michael Cohen’s lobbying business was its amateurishness. The smart clients route funds through law firms.
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. @politico not mincing words on the realities of money in Washington this morning. Also Cohen.
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