Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu’s TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.
Sorgente: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Wants You To Feel Like ‘This Could Happen Here’ : NPR
Different people have different ideas about what it means to sign an email “XOXO,” what you should use Facebook for, and how long you can wait before texting back.
Sorgente: The Subtext of Digital Conversations – The Atlantic
What happens when fiction runs headlong into reality that’s way weirder.
Sorgente: Tom Hanks and Jack Dorsey Tumble Into The Circle’s Endless Irony | WIRED
The series is based on the 1985 novel, but it feels perfectly suited to 2017.
Sorgente: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Somehow All the More Terrifying as a Hulu Show | WIRED
Cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth’s talk about human consciousness was my TED moment.
Sorgente: TED Day Three: The Mind-Scrambling TED Talk I Won’t Stop Sharing | WIRED
Some meals are more important than money.
Sorgente: ‘Billions’ Is the Best Food Show on TV
Saving the world, one science fact at a time.
Sorgente: Bill Nye explains Stranger Things, is our own Mr Clarke
Wondering how reporters missed the Trump wave? We crunched the data on where they work and how fast it’s changing. The results should worry the country.
Sorgente: The Media Bubble is Real — And Worse Than You Think – POLITICO Magazine
Having Coachella FOMO? Check out one of its coolest shows right here.
Sorgente: Take a Trip Inside Coachella’s Psychedelic 120-Foot VR Dome | WIRED
The 2017 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of the films opening through early September. Release dates and other details are subject to change.
EVERY DAY ACROSS the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube. They look for violence in videos. They seek out hateful language in video titles. They decide whether to classify clips as “offensive” or “sensitive.” They are Google’s so-called “ads quality raters,” temporary workers hired by outside agencies to render judgments machines still can’t make all on their own. And right now, Google appears to need these humans’ help—urgently.
It’s the denouement of our four-course meal, and dinner is settling into a lull — until, that is, Selma Vilhunen starts poking her brownie. The Finnish director perks up, growing giddy over her next passion project: Hobbyhorse Revolution. We’re seated in a special screening room on the second floor of Toronto’s Montecito Restaurant, surrounded by a film library, an old cinematic camera and images from classic comedies like Meatballs and Animal House, and she’s fiddling with the Wi-Fi setting on her phone, trying to pull up a recently released trailer of her documentary. I offer my cell so that she can share a sneak peek, and this is what her well-manicured fingers pull up:
A whole lot of goodness is coming to Netflix in May 2017, including new seasons of “Master of None,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Bloodline,” “House of Cards,” and “Sense8.”
TIMES SQUARE STARTS at 42nd Street, between the H&M and the Walgreens, and stretches north for five blocks. I stood there a few days ago, illuminated by the glow of a canary yellow ad for Spectacles by Snap. I found the ads as colossal as ever, but the space had changed since my last visit. The usual swarm New Yorkers and tourists with selfie sticks had thinned. Times Square felt spacious. I could actually meander, look around, breathe.Today, Times Square celebrates the completion of its six-year transformation from a congested thoroughfare into a European-style piazza. “We tripled the amount of pedestrian space,” says Craig Dykers, co-founder of the architecture firm Snøhetta. Remaking the Crossroads of the World follows a broader trend by cities around the world to create more pedestrian-friendly spaces that favor people over cars.
This picture taken in Paris on April 16, 2017, shows an electoral poster of French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron defaced, reading ‘Let’s move for injustice’. / AFP PHOTO / Joël SAGET
Amidst criticism of continued whitewashing, a new generation of casting directors is embracing genuine diversity over tokenism.
Sorgente: A New Generation of Casting Directors Putting Diversity First | Intelligence | BoF
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