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- People move out of cities all the time for the suburbs—that doesn't mean there's any sort of pandemic trend story there.
- Torture yourself by playing around with the NY Times' interactive election predictor.
- Amusement park owners are asking Governor Andrew Cuomo for immediate guidance on whether they can reopen or not.
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- Douglas Rushkoff revisits his 2016 piece “Survival of the Richest” in a new Medium post titled “The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods,” about our cocooned, technology-enabled present.
- The Washington Post reports that Facebook took down a small network of fake accounts and pages associated with Russian operatives that had "recruited U.S. journalists to write articles targeting left-leaning readers on topics such as racial justice, the Biden-Harris campaign and President Trump’s policies."
- Everyone everywhere is stressed, and advertisers have noticed—and are now trying to sell people on peace of mind.
- Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are teaming up with writer Alexander Woo to adapt Liu Cixin’s sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem for Netflix.
- Big Sean talked about the long gestation period for Detroit 2, his latest album due out this week.
- David Byrne apologized for wearing blackface in a promo video for the Talking Heads' classic film Stop Making Sense.
- And finally, don't worry, this video has a happy ending:
Published Sep 1, 2020
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