jason hirschhorn's @MediaREDEF: 07/20/2018 - New FBI Director, The Last Blockbuster, Best Buy, Billions Creator, 1% Shopping, Facial Recog, Art Technicians...

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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Friday - July 20, 2018 Fri - 07/20/18
rantnrave:// If I had slept more than 9 hours since Tuesday, this space is where really insightful and funny stuff would be. But instead, given I'm half asleep, Let me tell you about some cool REDEF.com features and then you can read, watch and listen until you get so curious and smart that you'll be adored at the dinner conversation. Did you know that these are the most popular items on REDEF? Or that these are our great REDEF ORIGINALS on the future of media, music, sports, and fashion? Or in the mood for a playlist? A playlist of knowledge and curiosity? Check our REDEF SETS, curated collections of smartness on specific timely topics. Or you can see our curation in real time with our LIVE MIX? And that we have other newsletters like MusicREDEF and soon to return like sports and fashion? Or would you like to know what we're all about and our origins? And check out some interviews and coverage of us. Finally, did we miss something? You can now submit items to our curators. I'll be back this weekend to discuss my thoughts on ANTHONY BOURDAIN. A man that had a lasting impact on my life... Enjoy your day and dig into the interest remix below... Happy Birthday to JULIE UHRMAN, MARK JUNG, and KISHORE VENKAT.
- Jason Hirschhorn, curator
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NBC News
MUST WATCH: Full interview: FBI Director Christopher Wray on Russia, Mueller investigation and more
by Lester Holt
The FBI Director sat down for a one-on-one interview with NBC News' Lester Holt at the 2018 Aspen Security Forum.
The Ringer
The Last Days of Blockbuster Video
by Justin Heckert
Everything is 10 years behind in Alaska-including the way people see movies. In three stores across the coldest state in the union, Blockbuster captured the imagination of its residents long after the company ceased operations around the rest of the country. But now, the late fees are finally coming due, and the end of the Blockbuster era is upon us.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It's Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by Susan Berfield and Matthew Boyle
The big-box retailer doesn't just want to sell you electronics. It wants its in-home consultants to be "personal chief technology officers."
recode
'Billions' co-creator Brian Koppelman says everyone knows how to tell a great story -- but few get the chance
by Peter Kafka and Brian Koppelman
Koppelman calls the hit Showtime series his "dream show" and an "absurd privilege."
Dissent Magazine
The End of an Illusion
by Timothy Shenk
Born on the radical left and then seized by the right, has the concept of "capitalism" outlived its usefulness?
Popular Mechanics
RETRO READ: The Oral History of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
by Jennifer Bogo
The knuckle-biting story of the first lunar landing from the people who were there.
BuzzFeed News
Here's What Happened When The Government Lost Control Of The Biggest Nuclear Cleanup In The US
by Zahra Hirji
"This is 2018. We shouldn't still be contaminating people with plutonium," said a worker at the Hanford site in eastern Washington.
Rolling Stone
'F*** It, We'll Take the Bet': The Gold Rush To Sign the Next Rap God
by Amy X. Wang
Why the music industry is throwing money into hip-hop at a speed and scale that could spell danger.
Medium
People Don't Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves
by Zander Nethercutt
What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi.
The Independent
Art technicians: The industry's dirty secret, or all part of the process?
by Lindsey Johnstone
All the work and none of the glory? Or just another job? Art technicians, and the artists who rely on them, open up about what goes on behind-the-scenes in the studio
renting a div-a-dee
The Guardian
How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%
by Andy Beckett
On 7 October 1967, the Financial Times, then the most buttoned-up newspaper in Britain and quite possibly the world, discreetly added a regular new page to its Saturday edition. Buried deep inside the paper, behind the usual thicket of articles about share prices and companies and pensions, the page was introduced to readers a little euphemistically, as "a guide to good living".
POLITICO Magazine
Never Trumpers Will Want to Read This History Lesson
by Joshua Zeitz
In the 1850s, disaffected Democrats made the wrenching choice to leave their party to save American democracy. Here's what happened.
UPROXX
Making The Ground Quake: Six Nights On Tour With Harry Styles
by Chloe Gilke
There's also the inescapable fact that this kind of fandom is often seen as a pathology. But what if I'm not wrong?
Medium
How Facial Recognition Tech Could Tear Us Apart
by Jon Christian
Will the new tech create a safer society -- or a dystopian panopticon?
Wendover Productions
How Airports Make Money
Airports are incredibly complex and challenging businesses, but in many cases they're businesses that make money. Many airports are owned by governments, but still then, they're often operated as businesses -- just businesses that are publicly owned.
Los Angeles Review Of Books
The 'Intellectual Dark Web' Is Nothing New
by Jacob Hamburger
The intellectual superstars of the Trump era are not as new as they fancy themselves.
The Washington Post
If this is not treason, then what is it?
by Daniel W. Drezner
We should have a debate over whether treason is being committed by the White House. Yes, I just typed those words.
Vox
'Eighth Grade's' R rating deters actual 8th-graders from seeing it. What a shame
by Charles Bramesco
The MPAA ratings system and its very specific hang-ups are keeping teens away from the movies they need most.
The New York Times
The Water Wars of Arizona
by Noah Gallagher Shannon
Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer -- leaving many residents with no water at all.
The New York Times
Now in Living Color: Ted Williams's Last Game
by Bill Pennington
For nearly 58 years, Williams's last game has been seen in black-and-white. Now, recently discovered color footage adds another dimension to his final, fabled at-bat.
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"A Night To Remember"
Shalamar
Summer song...
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