tingilinde

a different reality show

Trying to recreate some of Vermeer's lost works - as reality TV.

 

what the nba can learn from f1

Ben Thompson on two sports and what they mean given the Internet.

 

 

 

alan alda on mash

Fifty years ago

 

dominion v fox

This could get interesting.

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Pirro was among those Fox hosts with increasingly tough talk ahead of the January 2021 certification of Biden's election win. On Jan. 3, 2021, Pirro compared those gathering to protest in Washington with Trump to the American soldiers in the Revolutionary War, adding, "Jan. 6 will tell us whether there are any in Congress willing to battle for America." That day led to bloody battles at the U.S. Congress. As one of his last acts in office, Trump pardoned Pirro's husband for two-decades-old convictions for tax evasion.

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a tip of the hat to Sukie

an impressive submarine project

There's a detailed project blog.

 

the first snl

leaving snl

Kate McKinnon is leaving Saturday Night Live.  I haven't watched in a few years, but she was often brilliant.   

The opening of the show on the first Saturday after the 2016 election where she appeared dressed as Hillary Clinton

 

part 2 of the nyt carlson series

Nothing good to say about him.  White hate and white nationalism.  Now a core value at Fox.

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He cataloged, and magnified, overlooked instances of what he cast as growing discrimination against white Americans. Stories about the threat of immigration had long been a feature of Fox. But Mr. Carlson dialed up the intensity, expertly weaving tropes borrowed from the far right into a narrative that would come to define “Tucker Carlson Tonight”: falling birthrates among the native-born, big-city crime, lax immigration policies designed to forcibly alter American society — all engineered or encouraged by a “ruling class” desperate to censor public discussion of its own failures.

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advanced search in twitter

I'm not surprised it exists, but I've never seen anything on it.  Here's some information.

 

 

jeff Zuckerman

For years Xeni has suggested Jeff Zucker of CNN was evil with a good deal of influence in Trump's rise to power at NBC and then CNN.  This  Rolling Stone piece is eye opening.