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👓 Jeff Sessions out as attorney general | CNN
President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Matthew Whitaker will take over as acting attorney general.
👓 White House suspends press access for CNN’s Jim Acosta | NY Post
The White House suspended press access for Jim Acosta on Wednesday after the CNN reporter had a tense exchange with President Trump during a press conference. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders…
An incendiary article that leaves some details out for salacious effect. Having seen a portion of the press conference this morning, there’s a bit to be desired in this reporting that does a bit of “he said, she said” without giving a completely accurate picture of the story.
👓 Lush life | Hub | Johns Hopkins University
Jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron's posthumously published memoir, The Last Holiday, is an improvisational snapshot of a fascinating life.
👓 New York Is Killing Me | The New Yorker
Alec Wilkinson (The New Yorker)Gil Scott-Heron is frequently called the “godfather of rap,” which is an epithet he doesn’t really care for. In 1968, when he was nineteen, he wrote a satirical spoken-word piece called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” It was released on a very small label in 1970 and was probably heard of more than heard, but it had a following. It is the species of classic that sounds as subversive and intelligent now as it did when it was new, even though some of the references—Spiro Agnew, Natalie Wood, Roy Wilkins, Hooterville—have become dated. By the time Scott-Heron was twenty-three, he had published two novels and a book of poems and recorded three albums, each of which prospered modestly, but “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” made him famous.
👓 Gil Scott-Heron, Revolutionary Poet and Musician, Dead at 62 | Rolling Stone
Scott-Heron was best known for 1970’s ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’
I remembered reading about his passing several years back, but something this morning got some of his poetry, music, and writing stuck in the back of my head. Perhaps it was something about the revolution not being televised. In any case, what a creative soul we’ve lost…
👓 AMC to Raise Stubs A-List Subscription Price in Select States | Hollywood Reporter
The circuit in 2019 will raise pricing for its ticket app, where it has proven most popular.
👓 MoviePass Rival Sinemia Drops Prices to Dirt Cheap on Weekdays | Gizmodo
MoviePass broke the mold on theater subscription services and broke itself in the process, but the whole idea itself is not dead. Sinemia is carrying on with more modest deals, and it’s now offering weekday-only subscription plans that start at $4 per month.
👓 Democrats fall short in the Senate as Republicans retain control | NBC News
Republicans trounced incumbent Democrats Claire McCaskill, Heidi Heitkamp, and Joe Donnelly on their way to retaining the Senate majority.
👓 Good early sign for Democrats: Jennifer Wexton unseats GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock in Virginia | CNBC
Voters in the affluent Northern Virginia suburban district have sent Republicans to Congress for 60 of the past 66 years.
Breathing a tad easier in math class tonight now…
👓 Big Changes Ahead for FMA | Free Music Archive
We regret to inform you that due to a funding shortage, the FMA will be closing down later this month. The future of the archive is uncertain, but we have done everything we can to ensure that our files will not disappear from the web forever. The full audio collection will be backed up and available at https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive (some of the collection is already there; feel free to go browse).
Internet related archives are important but fragile things. It’s sad to see when archives like this go down, particularly due to funding reasons.
👓 fisking | IndieWeb
fisking is the practice of reposting an article and interpolating commentary on between lines of it, often to mock or rebut the arguments in it..
👓 Fox News, NBC, and Facebook pulled Trump’s racist campaign ad. He’s not happy about it. | Vox
The latest controversy over Trump’s final campaign ad, explained.
👓 Election Update | Facebook Newsroom
US law enforcement contacted us about online activity that they recently discovered and believe may be linked to foreign entities.
This seems like a lot of lip service to me. I can’t imagine they’re doing much more than scratching the surface of what they should be doing.
👓 "Little Foot" hominin skeleton from South Africa will finally be open to other scientists | Michael Balter
In 1994, Ron Clarke, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, was looking through some museum boxes filled with fossil specimens from the Sterkfontein caves, located about 40 kilometers northwest of the city. Beginning in the 1930s, a number of hominin fossils had been found there, mostly australopithecines, in what South Africans call the Cradle of Humankind. Clarke quickly realized that four of the fossils, all small toe bones, had been misidentified as belonging to monkeys. They actually belonged to an early hominin, most likely another australopithecine. It quickly became known as "Little Foot."