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#tbt outside Nuyorican with “The Cosby Kids” #jennahbell #chargaux #malcomparsons @chargaux

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Boots Riley is hands down one of my favourite MCs and lyricists. He’s currently on tour, speaking and performing in Australia and New Zealand. As well as being the frontman for The Coup, one of the longest-serving groups in Hip-hop, Boots has been an active political organiser in his local...

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Urgent security update

Bad news: A major vulnerability has been disclosed for the technology that powers encryption across the majority of the internet. That includes Tumblr. Our team took immediate action to fix the issue, but you should still take some time to change your password, not only here but on any other sites you visit.  You should also strongly consider enabling two-factor authentication. It’ll go a long way to ensure that no one besides you can access your account. Thanks, and take care.

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RIP FRANKIE KNUCKLES

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Last night in Anchorage.

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A cartoon by William Haefeli. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/1d6CdSj

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Must see - and so very true. 2014 will be officially the year of the backlash:)))

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Long before Amelia Earhart, female aeronauts were some of the most famous performers of their day, riding aloft in beautiful silk balloons loaded with fireworks to perform acrobatic tricks thousands of feet above the ground. Napoleon’s favorite daredevil was Sophie Blanchard. … Sophie devised a special balloon for her ascents, which featured a tiny festooned gondola that could hardly fit one standing person. She would float above the crowd as if standing on air, fireworks trailing behind, often wearing a signature white dress with a colorfully plumed hat.

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"The more we give over of ourselves to these devices, the less of our own minds it appears we exercise, and worse, perhaps even concomitantly, the more we coddle and covet the devices themselves."

A look at this week’s cover, “All Together Now,” by Chris Ware: http://nyr.kr/1gf3JkD

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Happy New Year and Happy 151st birthday to the #EmancipationProclamation! Thanks to Denise Sullivan for her reflections: http://wp.me/p1CgeQ-YC #music #blackmusic #jazz #blues #hiphop #bluespeople #blackhistory #thezlist #culture #society #popculture #history #africanamerican #lit #literature #books

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…documents a life dominated by winning races: from setting new European records to that famous Olympic double gold haul during London 2012. But the most vivid are the races that Farah didn’t win. Races such as the 10,000m World Championships in Daegu, when the 22-year-old Ethiopian Ibrahim Jeilan stormed past him on the final straight. Or the European Championships in 2006, when he missed out on gold by less than a 10th of a second. Without these defeats, and the learning curves they prompted, Farah’s later triumphs would surely never have happened.

more.

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2. Cassper Nyovest - Gusheshe

So many flows in this verse its the perfect showcase for a rapper working his way out of a very big HHP shadow. With a super long verse that honestly doesn’t feel like it but by the time koolkat comes in the song feels like a remix. Don’t get fooled by this catchy turn up, there is some exquisite rapping on here.

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Study: Consumers Will Pay $5 for an App that Respects Their Privacy

Ever since the iPhone came out in 2007, the going rate for many of the most popular apps has been exactly $0.00. Consumers pay nothing.

But of course, nothing is free. Instead, consumers pay with their data, that’s sold to marketers, or with screenspace, which is forked over to make room for ads. It’s a trade consumers are happy to make.

But are they?

A new study from economists at the University of Colorado finds otherwise. It shows that the average consumer would prefer to pay small fees for their apps, in exchange for keeping their information private and their screens uncluttered.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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#repost via @martinluthermcccoy "@kevchoice featuring me "Let It All Go" #bayarea #kevchoice #martinluthermccoy #sanfrancisco #soul #rap #rdb #hiphop #music #realmusic #rebelsoulrecords #instamusic #igers #streetshaveeyes #song #singer" #LetItAllGo #oakland #SF #thezlist

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The evolution of grape to raisin, illustrated by the inimitable Wendy MacNaughton, from a fantastic piece on the twelve cakes of Christmas.

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Run DMC-Chrismas Time in Hollis Queens