Archive - October 10th, 2016

Trump: Warren Buffett avoids taxes like me. Buffett: Nope, and here’s my taxes to prove it.

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Buffett performs the coveted Big-Finance-Tax-Release Mic Drop, reporting on his own taxes all the way back to when he was 13, as a big ole ‘don’t pull me into this asshole’ to The Donald. What a burn. via Facebook http://ift.tt/2dSppKX through IFTTT

Your Next Friend Could Be a Robot

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In our old age the robots will be our friends when our vile Facebook opinions drive everyone else away. Tech giants are working on conversation-based systems that could bring profound changes in how we interact with computers, writes Keywords columnist Christopher Mims. Amazon has found that people talk to its voice-controlled Echo speaker as if […]

Difficult ‘Birth’

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“The circumstances surrounding The Birth of a Nation and its creator are a hornet’s nest of racial and gender politics and rape culture. But the rabid reception to the film upon its debut at Sundance in January reveals one of the biggest weaknesses of a cinema culture fueled by art that’s disproportionately straight, white, male […]

Life on Turner Street

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This is an amazing piece of journalism by friend and past co-worker Marielle Consuelo. Make it the first addition to your #longreads for this week. “The program is one of thousands across the country that operate under a certain assumption: that people who end up homeless don’t know how to take care of themselves — […]