Month: February 2023
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49ers legend Joe Montana reflects on legacy ahead of Super Bowl
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Joe Montana Was Here He won four Super Bowls and retired as the undisputed greatest. What came next was turning a legacy into a life. via ESPN.com: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35604915/49ers-legend-joe-montana-reflects-legacy-ahead-super-bowl “Where did all these people come from?” she asks in a panic. Her coach apologizes and says it was his fault and he’d invited his very famous…
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Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics
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The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects. via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html One award-winning investigative filmmaker told me she gets regular notes from her agent — documentary directors didn’t used to have agents — about what streamers are looking for, and…
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The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry | The New Yorker
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The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry Forget diplomatic language—it’s a moment for some home truths. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-un-secretary-generals-searing-message-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry He begins by saying, in a sentence typed in bold in the official transcript, “We must end the merciless, relentless, senseless war on nature.” That war, he continues, “is putting our world…
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Why Some Florida Schools Are Removing Books from Their Libraries | The New Yorker
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Why Some Florida Schools Are Removing Books from Their Libraries “If I weren’t living through it, I wouldn’t believe it’s happening,” one parent, who has worked as a substitute teacher, said. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/why-some-florida-schools-are-removing-books-from-their-libraries Harlow put her daughter Emma on the phone. “I’m scared they’re going to take my one history book away,”…
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Twenty Three Week Five
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Media: The 1976 climbing tragedy of Nanda Devi Unsoeld (longform), more on MILF Manor from Cody Ko (video), the Hunt for Russian Collaborators in Ukraine (longform), Russia’s Convict Fighters are Heading Home (longform), and this must see on Netflix: