Link Post - Filed Under Things Only The Richest Company In The World Can Do

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October 25, 2018

NYT - While the process that allows Apple to take a slower and more thoughtful approach to aggregation matches their ethos, it probably isn't the panacea the media industry needs for its problems. As TFA says, their model isn't making a lot of money for the linked stories. It's also likely that aggregation costs more than the 30% . . .

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Link Post - The Spookiest Place On Earth

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October 25, 2018

Boing Boing - In addition to being home to the biggest population of plastic headed rodents, turns out that Disney theme parks are also home to the scattered ashes of fans.

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Link Post - Role Playing A Political Education

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October 25, 2018

Polygon - Using gaming to explain politics as a process with a specific set of rules that govern the process is a great idea. Divorcing people from idealogy allows them to see the sausage making for what it really is, as well as showing how things are changing as news is decentralized.

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Link Post - The Publishing Scam

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October 25, 2018

Antipope - After hearing that apparently scammers are trying to get their hands on manuscripts, Charlie Stross teases out how badly a publishing scam would really go.

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Link Post - The Novels Of 9-11

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October 23, 2018

The Quietus - The idea of using a novel's place in the cannon to properly review is certainly a grandiose thing to do for a new release. On the other hand, when people write about 9-11, things are going to get heavy. I have two complaints about the review. One, this list is missing Jonathan Safran Foer's excellent Extremely Loud And . . .

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Link Post - The Culture Problem

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October 22, 2018

Vox - This article is worth sharing just for the historical evolution of the Snow White story. Personally, I like Neil Gaiman’s take on the story. However what really made me share this was that Ben Shaprio reacted to this by acting as if Kristen Bell was asking for Snow White to be banned, when instead it was about how she contextualized the . . .

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Link Post - Quality Satire

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October 19, 2018

McSweeny’s - Though McSweeny’s is more miss than hit these days, this was a great piece.

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