👓 Podcasts startup Luminary launches with $100m of funding | Music Ally

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Another day, another podcasts startup attracting significant investment, amid the wider excitement around the spoken-word format. This time it’s a Los Angeles-based startup called Luminary, which is launching a slate of more than 40 podcasts including the likes of Lena Dunham, Malcolm Gladwell, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien as hosts. What’s more, the New York Times reports that Luminary has already secured nearly $100m of funding.

Its CEO Matt Sacks certainly has all the right lines when it comes to signifying ambitions, too. “We want to become synonymous with podcasting in the same way Netflix has become synonymous with streaming,” he said. “I know how ambitious that sounds. We think it can be done, and some of the top creators in the space agree.”

The way Luminary has gone after some of the most prominent podcasters to create their next shows for its company mirrors what Spotify is doing – there’s something of a land-grab going on for anyone who’s proven their ability to engage listeners with this format. Luminary isn’t just a producer though: it’s launching its own app, which will offer an $8 monthly subscription for ad-free access to its entire lineup. The app will also have an ad-supported free section.

👓 Infographic Breaks Down Film Genre Popularity of the Past 100 Years | No Film School

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Check out this cool look into how Film Genre Popularity has evolved over time from 1910 - 2018.

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I'm still working on helping people to leave Facebook and that's the only reason I'm still on the platform. Otherwise I don't use it, don't support it, and don't give them any more of my data. For those who have left, BaseCamp has created a CA BY-SA 4.0 badge for those who have. [caption id="attachment_55738411"…

👓 The Commons: The Past Is 100% Part of Our Future | Flickr

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We are very proud of the The Flickr Commons photos uploaded by galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and governmental institutions. These photos won’t be deleted as a result of any of our announ…
Great to see them explicitly address the questions they've been getting about archival value of photos as well as the commons and Creative Commons licensed photos on their service.

👓 Alhambra’s Fosselman’s Ice Cream to ditch ’70s look for 100th birthday | Pasadena Star News

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Fosselman’s Ice Cream Co. is set to close Sept. 24-27 for construction to update the shop’s look.
I haven't been in a while and can't wait to see what the renovations look like now.

👓 ‘100 Kegs or Bust’: Kavanaugh friend, Mark Judge, has spent years writing about high school debauchery | Washington Post

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GOP pushes for swift hearing as Kavanaugh accuser discusses terms for testimony As Christine Blasey Ford tells it, only one person can offer eyewitness confirmation of her account of a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh: Mark Judge, Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Prep. Ford says Judge watched Kavanaugh attack her at a high school party in the early 1980s and then literally piled on, leaping on top of her and Kavanaugh. Judge says he does not remember the party and never saw his buddy behave like that. Ford’s legal team has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to compel Judge to testify.

📺 "Suits" 100 | USA Network

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Directed by Patrick J. Adams. With Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle. Harvey and Mike seek outside help to overcome an impossible situation. An unexpected encounter derails Louis's search for a new associate. Donna receives a surprising proposition.

👓 Amazon flaw costs Apple accessory maker nearly $100k as counterfeiter takes over legitimate listing | 9to5Mac

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Amazon has come under fire in the past for its lackluster approach to handling counterfeit products. Now, the online retailer is facing a broader problem, with counterfeiters going as far as to take over a company’s legitimate product listing… BuzzFeed News highlights the problem in a report, explaining how a counterfeit maker of the popular from Elevation Labs overtook the company’s own Amazon listing.
 

👓 Trump spends 100th day at golf club as president | CNN

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President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.

👓 American Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Who Wanted to Sell Material on Trump | New York Times

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After months of negotiations, the Russian insisted on including information about the president as part of a deal involving stolen hacking tools.

Reply to Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters by Eddie Hinkle

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One of my goals in 2018 is to own my reading data rather than using Goodreads for all of that information. This will allow me to track information the way I want rather than have to do it like Goodreads wants me to.
Welcome to the club. It seems like there's a growing interest in owning read posts lately. Doing a 100 day experiment seems like a brilliant way to self-dogfood it while simultaneously getting more material read. I may have to steal the idea!

👓 Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters | Eddie Hinckle

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One of my goals in 2018 is to own my reading data rather than using Goodreads for all of that information. This will allow me to track information the way I want rather than have to do it like Goodreads wants me to. My eventual goal is to have something like what Xavier made, but for now I’m going...
Reading even a chapter a day can be a useful and powerful thing. I ought to be doing this as a near term goal instead of just trying to generally always "read more."

📺 Diving into 1000 Mousetraps in 4K Slow Motion – The Slow Mo Guys | YouTube

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Gav and Dan spend 4 hours setting up 1000 mouse traps and then 4 seconds setting them all off.
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📖 Read pages 100-115 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

📖 Read pages 100-115 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl [caption id="attachment_55689483" align="alignleft" width="300"] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl[/caption] His storytelling style is truly delicious. His sentence structure creates quite a bit of surprise, even when you know what's coming.