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- hans_glib0
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- detritus1
The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face
- cock-a-doodle-doo1
Death of a Playmate
Dorothy Stratten was the focus of the dreams and ambitions of three men. One killed her. (1980)Great read!
- Nairn1
THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen…
An interesting and well laid out analysis of problems in the Feminist movement of the 60s and 70s, with insight and lessons that can be applied to a wide range of human endeavour, particularly to contemporary structures made possible by the internet.
- Nairn0
Not long.
- renderedred1
From lying in bed with zero ideas to negotiating with the biggest superstar on planet earth.
- antimotion1
Clockwork orange sequel (unfinished) has been discovered:
- Well, at least the shitty remake by Tim Burton will take longer to see the light.maquito
- Wow, this makes me uneasy, but yeah with the current state of commercial film, totally plausible haha.antimotion
- antimotion0
Not sure about the motivation of author, but I am a fan of process stories none the less:
- renderedred2
http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a…
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.
- grafician0
- link?imbecile
- part of the problem here is calling buzzfeed news... as you wereimbecile
- https://www.buzzfeed…grafician
- @imbecile just read it, make up your mind latergrafician
- @QBN we need an edit-post function or something...grafician
- i've read versions of this burnout thing before. i laugh at it being millennial related considering any freelancer in any field can relate, self included at 40+imbecile
- @imbe: you can read between the lines, not just a "millennial" thing, but 100% still true...grafician
- imbecile2
on abortion and women's reproductive rights...
https://twitter.com/designmom/st…
- renderedred0
The Story My Male Editors Kept Killing
- renderedred0
https://www.autoblow.com/bjpaper…
Analysis of Movement in Oral Sex Performed Upon Men better known as The Blowjob Paper
- renderedred0
The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities
- renderedred0
https://research.smalldata.indus…...
A Study on the Curation, Acquisition, and Preservation of Animated GIFs
- Gnash2
- that was great, thanks.fadein11
- I watched this recently (slightly related).
Interesting to see the same arguments decades ago:
https://www.youtube.…fadein11 - I loved Kerouac's books when younger but what a dick by the end.fadein11
- saved this for later, but fuck it, had half dozen beers and already wrote a half poem, let's read!grafician
- Nairn1
"Forty years ago, a U.S. satellite detected the telltale signs of a nuclear explosion. An analysis of the evidence today points to a clandestine nuclear test, a Carter administration cover-up, and only one country that was willing and able to carry it out: Israel."
- that's a "known" israeli test in coop with south africa.renderedred
- everybody was playing it "wtf" while knowing who it was.renderedred
- shimon peres legacy :)renderedred
- Yeah, it's one of my favourtie old stories - I just liked the particularly blunt peek behind the scenes in this 40th Anniversary article.Nairn
- sure, good article.renderedred
- renderedred0
The Science of Gun Violence