The 2010 movie Social Network isn’t perfect – though the fact that it looks like a horror movie now feels eerily accurate. But “the movie mocks one of the ideas that, from the beginning and definitely in the nearly 10 years since The Social Network premiered, has become one of Facebook’s own dearest myths: connection. Connection as origin; connection as mission; connection as justification.” – The Atlantic
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The Bozeman Symphony Is Investigating Allegations Against Its Conductor
The board is investigating a series of allegations against its music director and conductor, Matthew Savery, while he remains in his job. A letter accusing him of serious bullying “was signed by 14 people, including former and present musicians, staff members and donors.” – Bozeman (Montana) Daily Chronicle
Speaking Of Those Super Bowl Ads: An Evaluation
NPR’s TV critic, Eric Deggans, explains the great, the not-so-great, the surprising (spoiler alert: There were a lot of ads with surprise celebrity sightings), the useless (Pepsi, please just stop), and the bad. – NPR
Yes, That Was Andy Warhol In The Burger King Super Bowl Ad
He had 45 seconds in this particular iteration of his fame. – AdAge
Margo Rodriguez, Who Turned The Mambo From Nightclub To Popular Craze, Has Died At 89
Rodriguez, together with her husband Augie, brought the mambo to life on TV, including on The Ed Sullivan Show and Broadway Tonight. “At the height of their fame, they danced in London for Queen Elizabeth II and at the White House for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.” – The New York Times
The Latest In The Digital Media Apocalypse
Yes, it’s old news (a week old) that BuzzFeed was laying off huge numbers of journalists. And HuffPost. And TechCrunch. But it’s more recent – if still last week’s – news that Vice is laying off journalists too. What gives? No surprise: Facebook. “Digital media companies typically generate ad revenue based on the size of their audiences, and consumers discover many of those videos and articles through sites such as Facebook and YouTube.” – Los Angeles Times
Assessing Toni Morrison’s Presence In American, And World, Literature
She’s almost always writing about such horror that it’s incomprehensible. But “Morrison has constructed a language adapted to the needs of a people who of necessity live at once in the present and the past. The animating spirit of her novels — that forked lightning present all at once across time — lights from within the areas of black experience she explores.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Silicon Valley’s Terms Of Service Are Impossible To Consent To, Or Understand
But they rule our lives. Can Amazon’s ToS, which would take more than nine hours to read aloud, be changed? Can any company’s? – The New York Times
If The Directors Had Their Way, ‘Roma’ Would Be Best Picture
Or actually, that’s what was chosen by the Directors’ Guild of America – and the film’s director, Alfonso Cuarón, also won best director, probably cementing his status as frontrunner for the Academy Award. (See a list of all winners at the link.) – Los Angeles Times
A Museum Celebrating Black Culture Is Long Overdue In Britain, Says David Adjaye
“The museum that Sir David is proposing would aim to make generations of black children feel like they have a place in the nation’s future. He said: ‘It is really amazingly important for the representation of people in the sort of cultural tropes of the nation.'” – BBC