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👓 Is ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ racist? Not quite. | The Washington Post
Twenty years after the first Harry Potter book was released in the United States, the franchise still has the power to amaze — and offend. To this day, J.K. Rowling’s series is still banned in some schools and libraries for promoting “witchcraft.” But with the release last week of a new trailer for the next film in the fictional universe, “Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” Rowling is facing a different sort of backlash. This one shouldn’t be dismissed so easily.
At the heart of today’s Harry Potter controversy is a five-second clip in the “Fantastic Beasts 2” trailer showing South Korean actress Claudia Kim transforming into a massive snake. The scene apparently reveals the backstory behind her character, Nagini, who eventually becomes Voldemort’s pet: She is a “maledictus,” or shape-shifter, cursed to eventually become trapped in a snake’s body.
👓 How and Why J.K. Rowling’s ‘Nagini’ Character Reveal is Touching on Racist Tropes About Asian Women | Medium
Enter “The Dragon Lady.”
👓 Everything you need to know about Nagini | Pottermore
Lord Voldemort’s terrifying snake, Nagini, is a great source of mystery in the Harry Potter books. Now, it’s been revealed that she will feature in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
👓 Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis | The New York Times
Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.
👓 Liebster Award 2018 | The Global Aussie
After going through more than 300 submissions we have a winner!! The 2017 Liebster Award Winner is: Her Life is Love Check out her blog! Congratulations you have won a Go Pro Hero. Herlifeislove won with the following creative questions: If you had to plant a garden full of lettuce, basil, or random...
👓 The best laptop deals for the Cyber Monday shopping season | The Verge
It helps to save when buying a new laptop.
👓 Instagram’s new profile designs emphasize users instead of their follower count | The Verge
IGTV might get its own tab.
Nice to see other services begin to follow some of the lead of micro.blog and it’s more healthy and explicit features.
👓 Ricky Jay, Magician and 'Boogie Nights' Actor, Dies at 72 | New York Times
In addition to his long career as a magician, he also appeared in such films as 'Magnolia' (1999) as the narrator, 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997) as a cyber terrorist and 'Boogie Nights' (1997).
I had friends who represented Rick Jay when I was at CAA. I later had the privilege of working with him as a consultant on Heartbreakers, when he had me out to the Magic Castle several times as a guest.
I don’t think there’s anyone living or dead who had a better collection or mastery of magic and related arts than Ricky Jay did. I hope his legacy and library is well supported.
👓 Hyde-Smith Attended All-White ‘Seg Academy’ to Avoid Integration | Jackson Free Press
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that were set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students, a yearbook reveals.
This is the second article I’m reading out of the Jackson Free Press in almost as many days. They’ve got some excellent coverage on this topic to be sure.
👓 England, But New: How John Smith’s 1616 Map Helped Define America | Atlas Obscura
The name "New England" was like a colonial real estate ad.
👓 ‘HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!’: Rhetorical bedlam erupts as President Trump speaks to the world from Mar-a-Lago | Washington Post
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump’s Thanksgiving began, as his days often do, with an all-caps tweet: “HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!” Minutes later, he tweeted of potential “bedlam, chaos, injury and death,” a harbinger of what would be a frenetic Thanksgiving morning.
👓 Our Future | Bob Baker Marionette Theater
OUR FUTURE Bob Baker Marionette Theater now as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization will transition our current operation into an institution to educate kids of all ages across Los Angeles and beyond, to celebrate imagination and creativity, and to rejuvenate appreciation for handcrafted puppetry and entertainment. As a nonprofit organization, we are owned by the community and exist to serve the community. Though Bob Baker was the founder of our organization, we exist now to celebrate, expand, and educate people on Bob Baker’s work and the concepts of puppetry and performance as a whole. The final day the Theater in its current location will be open to the public is Friday, November 23rd, 2018 (the day after Thanksgiving, which is the same day the Theater opened 55 years ago). One day later, on November 24, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will open Bob Baker's Nutcracker presented at the Pasadena Playhouse for 5 weeks. For the first time in its history, this tradition will have a new home to share the holiday joy and imagination that generations have come to know and love. Performances will run through December 30. Tickets are now on sale at www.pasadenaplayhouse.org.
Happy Anniversary Bob Baker Marionette Theater!
👓 On Thanksgiving Eve, Facebook Acknowledges Details of Times Investigation | New York Times
The company’s communications and policy chief took responsibility for hiring the lobbying company Definers Public Affairs.
More evidence that they need some oversight and regulation…