California isn’t into the new FCC rules that allow blocking or throttling of “lawful traffic. The law also bans paid data cap exemptions (so-called ‘zero-rating’), and says that ISPs may not attempt to evade net neutrality protections by slowing down traffic at network interconnection points.” Sounds good, right? Not to Jeff Sessions, of course.
Tag: 09.30.18
The Wild Review Of ‘The English Patient’ That Left Its Writer Bereft, Twenty Years Later
This is a cautionary tale of lying – to oneself and to editors – and where that road leads. Also, this is a severe skewering not only of the movie The English Patient but also of the book. “Sometimes, when I met people, they’d say, ‘Wait! Aren’t you the movie girl?’ Sometimes they would say, ‘Do you like anything?’ A guy in a bar told me once that he and his friends called me ‘the movie assassin.'”
Artist Rachel Whiteread On Playing With Space And Air, The Contemporary Art Audience, And How Artists Are Being Pushed Out Of East London
Whiteread, the first woman to win the Turner Prize, on the Shoreditch area of London: “We couldn’t stand Shoreditch any longer. It’s just a hellhole. I know we artists contributed to making it that way [gentrified, expensive, noisy], but it had become monstrous. Everybody I know has left.”
Perhaps The Brazilian National Museum Can Be Rebuilt – But Should It Be?
It’s not like the museum was backed up to the cloud. “When ‘I hear people talking with extreme optimism about this issue, I cannot help but think that they don’t quite understand what was lost,’ said Marcus Guidoti, a Brazilian doctoral candidate who used the museum’s collection in his research.”
The Tate Wants To Know Where Angelica Kauffman’s Biggest Painting Went In 1941
Tate Britain has launched a “last-ditch” attempt to find the painting Religion Attended by the Virtues by Kauffman, one of two women among the founders of the Royal Academy of Art. When was it last seen? Just before a massive bombing raid in Plymouth in 1941.
The Misunderstood Comic Master Who Is About To Get Her Full Due
Elayne Boosler performed in the most elite comic clubs on both coasts, but she could never get her own sitcom or even a network special – and she saw very limited time on the Tonight Show (Johnny wasn’t into assertive women). But she was a master of the stand-up hour. “Make no mistake: Ms. Boosler was its first female star, regularly putting out hours of jokes on cable in the 1980s and early ’90s that represented a break from the past. … Her act — hard-hitting, topical and dense with punch lines — anticipated the future of comedy better than most if not all of her peers.”