Month: June 2019
Trump's media-abetted lies about his wealth; the tax preparation cartel; weaponizing FOIA and the "electability" myth.
The political press has long used the vague notion of “electability” to drive horserace coverage of presidential candidates. This week, On the Media considers how the emphasis on electability takes the focus away from the issues and turns voters into pundits. Plus, the shady dealings of the tax preparation industry, and how FOIA has been weaponized. And, how Trump duped financial journalists about his net worth in the 1980s.
1. Investigative journalist Jonathan Greenberg [@JournalistJG] on how Trump obscured his finances to wind up on the Forbes list of richest Americans — and why it mattered so much to him.
2. Dennis Ventry, professor at UC Davis School of Law, on how the tax preparation industry united to shield themselves from a publicly-funded alternative.
3. OTM producer Alana Casanova-Burgess [@AlanaLlama] speaks with Dennis Ventry, Michael Halpern [@halpsci], Eric Lipton [@EricLiptonNYT] and Claudia Polsky about a bill in California that seeks to curb the weaponization of FOIA.
4. Alex Pareene [@pareene], staff writer at The New Republic, on how the idea of "electability" has metastasized among democratic voters.
👓 So Long and Thanks For All of This | Learning Nuggets
Terry Greene (Learning Nuggets)After nearly two years of secondment, my time as a Program Manager at eCampusOntario is coming to an end. On July 2 I return to Fleming College as a Learning Technology Specialist. Here is a rundown of experiences that I’m thankful to have gained, while in this position. I’ll keep it brief. Visi...
Congratulations Terry!
👓 Thursday, June 20, 2019 | Scripting News
When you buy something online that there is no Consumer Reports or Wirecutter review of, how do you decide what to get? There are a lot of what appear to be review sites on the web, but I guess they're all ads for what they recommend. I don't think the search engines have gotten around to this yet. Here's a search for "best bike cover." Which if any of them are serious criticism by people who know the area.
👓 Toast | Adactio: Journal
Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)Shockwaves rippled across the web standards community recently when it appeared that Google Chrome was unilaterally implementing a new element called toast. It turns out that’s not the case, but the confusion is understandable. First off, this all kicked off with the announcement of “intent to i...
👓 Iron Man and me | Adactio: Journal
Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)All of my Flickr pictures are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence. One of the reasons I switched over to using this licence was so that people didn’t have to write and ask me whenever they want to republish one of my photos. But I still get plenty of emails from people asking me...
An awesome little story and an interesting tidbit about movie clearance offices.
Welcoming Jay Hoffmann to IndieWeb with WordPress.
👓 Bringing Back the Personal Site | Jay Hoffmann
There have been quite a few articles recently about the importance of the personal site, and the blogging community. It’s a sentiment I’m super excited about. Rian Van Der Merwe has probably the simplest point. Blogs are the front page of the internet, and it’s their freedom that gives them ...
🎞 Working Girl (1988) | Twentieth Century Fox
Directed by Mike Nichols. With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin. When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
DVRed from cable; watched on television
You hear the opening title music and you immediately know what you’re watching even though you haven’t seen this in decades…
Holy crap their 80’s hair is high and insane. What were people thinking?!
Interesting to re-watch this in a post me-too era. Somewhat bizarre to see Kevin Spacey play an assaulter in the opening act. Art imitating life?
This really did have some awesome casting. Bully to Juliet Taylor with Ellen Lewis as her associatet. Many of the smaller players became bigger later or have done some interesting character work hereafter. Zach Grenier in an early turn hitting on Weaver at her office party. He really is underappreciated. This is one of his first big film appearance. Most will recognize him from his break through role in Fight Club as the overbearing boss. Quick turn by Leslie Ayvazian as a receptionist… Ricki Lake with a short appearance as a bridesmaid. Apparently David Duchovny had a role in one of the bar scenes, but I didn’t really catch it. Kind of cool to see Amy Aquino as the assistant at the end of the picture. I recognized her name in the credits having appreciated her in Bosch (Amazon) recently, but kept waiting for her to pop up. And wow! That curly hair!
It’s uncommon for June to be as cool as it’s generally been, but now it’s raining this morning too?
