Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) with Jana Hunter (Lower Dens) →
Good talk.
Google Allowed Facebook to Spy on Android Users →
Don’t be evil, but allow evil API calls.
Cynthia Nixon and the Degradation of Experience →
Genius in one arena doesn’t guarantee competence in another.
Nor does experience, but it’s the safer bet.
– Frank Bruni
The 25 Best Movie Supervillains, Ranked →
Abraham Riesman on Heath Ledger’s Joker:
Other supervillains threaten us with totalitarian control, but such threats are almost quaint in our present era — the fear of Joker-esque chaos is much more Zeitgeist-y in our crumbling millennium.
And as for Ledger, well, what can you say that hasn’t already been said? The man took all of those aforementioned elements and added in a mixture of menace and humor the likes of which is rarely seen in any genre.
Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Atlantic Interview →
Good talk.
Eric Holder, Scott Walker call for probe of Russian trolls targeting Milwaukee →
We are not prepared for our connected present.
Ava DuVernay To Direct Jack Kirby’s The New Gods →
There came a time when the old gods died!
THEN—THERE WAS NEW LIGHT!
Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says →
IOT + Infrastructure Week is really scary.
Beardcrawler
Endorsing new look Kurt (from the cover of X-Men: Red #2 by Travis Charset).
Test Post
(From Workflow).