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Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson? | Michael Jackson

Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson? | Michael Jackson

🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Michael Jackson,Music,Michael Jackson trial,Culture,Film,Musicals,Musicals,Pop and rock,US crime,Janet Jackson,Lynn Nottage,Leaving Neverland,Miles Teller 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In December 1993, Michael Jackson’s genitals were photographed by the Santa Barbara county sheriff’s department and the Los Angeles police department (LAPD). The pop music titan had been accused of sexually abusing Jordan Chandler, a 13-year-old boy who had accompanied Jackson on his Dangerous world tour and regularly shared a bed with the singer. Chandler had made a drawing of distinctive markings and blotches on Jackson’s crotch which matched the photos, law…
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Why Japan has such good railways

Why Japan has such good railways

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6.4 percent, and the United States just 0.25 percent. Travel in Japan is over a hundred times more likely to be by rail than travel in the United States.  Japan’s vast railway network is divided between dozens of companies, nearly all of them private. The largest of these, JR East, carries more passengers than…
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The story of black British music is writ large in the first exhibition at the V&A East| Exhibitions

The story of black British music is writ large in the first exhibition at the V&A East| Exhibitions

💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Exhibitions,V&A,Museums,Art and design,Black British culture,Music,Culture,London,England,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Jacqueline Springer stands in the middle of the Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition space and looks wistfully at a pair of drain pipe trousers, a tailored suit jacket and a pig hat, creating the unmistakable silhouette of Pauline Black, lead singer of the group 2 Tone the Selector.Springer is the curator of the Victoria and Albert East Museum's inaugural exhibition, 'Music is Black', a historical survey of black British music, which opens this weekend. It starts…
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The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood

The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: To Mallerie Shirley and Christopher Pleasants, nothing felt “revolutionary” about the way they were raising their two kids. Then a stranger called child protective services. It started last November in Atlanta. With school closed on Election Day, the couple’s 6-year-old son, Jake (not his real name), wanted to ride his scooter by himself to a nearby playground while Mallerie and Christopher worked their tech jobs from home. They had recently begun allowing Jake to play outside alone, and other kids and a group of parents…
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No generation is safe from the nostalgia industry – just look at the disappointing Malcolm in the Middle reboot | Johan Koshy

No generation is safe from the nostalgia industry – just look at the disappointing Malcolm in the Middle reboot | Johan Koshy

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Disney+,Media,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOne day in the near future, millennials like me will move into nursing homes. Once we're in, what will we do to pass the time? Narrative podcasts from the 2000s will likely be beamed into our bedrooms as the evening approaches, with early albums by Arctic Monkeys and Strokes available on demand. Paperbacks about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and the disappearance of flight MH370 will line the bookshelves. In the TV room, the struggle for the remote…
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yapstudios/sfsym: Export Apple SF Symbols as SVG · GitHub

yapstudios/sfsym: Export Apple SF Symbols as SVG · GitHub

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A command-line tool for exporting Apple SF Symbols as SVG, PDF, or PNG. The vector paths come directly from macOS's symbol renderer, so the output is the same geometry the system draws. No Xcode project, no redraw, and no runtime dependency on SF Symbols.app. sfsym export heart.fill -f svg -o heart.svg # 569B -> heart.svg Before you use this Licensing. SF Symbols are Apple property. The SF Symbols License permits their use only in artwork and mockups for apps that run on Apple platforms. sfsym…
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Michael Jackson’s film is set to be a controversial success

Michael Jackson’s film is set to be a controversial success

💥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: However, these allegations remain part of Jackson's life story, complicating the attempt to turn his life into a nine-figure Hollywood blockbuster. But given the pop star's current demand, he's likely to be a hit, too. Industry analysts expect Michael to be even bigger than Bohemian Rhapsody.worldwideMichael is produced by Graham King, who had a huge hit with Bohemian RhapsodyIf King had any initial doubts about the wisdom of giving Jackson the "Bohemian Odyssey" treatment, those doubts may have been dispelled by his soaring popularity since…
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America lost the Mandate of Heaven

America lost the Mandate of Heaven

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: What does it mean if a country is winning? I read an article a while back about how, basically because labor unions became too much of a pain to deal with, they were just cut out of the conversation. Everything was outsourced, and now after whining about a $25/hr job not having health insurance, there’s just no more $25 an hour job and nobody to try and bargain with anymore. The chips are made in Taiwan, the clothes are made in Vietnam, the cars are…
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A federal judge rejects a Justice Department lawsuit seeking personal details about Rhode Island voters

A federal judge rejects a Justice Department lawsuit seeking personal details about Rhode Island voters

✨ Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,elections,Rhode Island,voter data ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration seeking detailed data on voters from Rhode Island, a decision that follows similar rulings in a handful of other states. US District Judge Mary McElroy sided with Rhode Island's top election officials and civil rights advocates, writing that federal law does not allow the US Department of Justice "to conduct a witch-hunt of the kind it seeks here." Read more:…
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It is incorrect to “normalize” // in HTTP URL paths

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: (See discussion on Lobsters.)Collapsing // to / inside an HTTP URL path is not normalization.The URI syntax permits empty path segmentsRFC 3986 defines the path component and the segment grammar in a way that allows for empty segments. A double slash is therefore syntactically meaningful. It represents a zero-length segment between two separators.3.3. PathThe path component contains data, usually organized in hierarchical form, that, along with data in the non-hierarchical query component (Section 3.4), serves to identify a resource within the scope of the…
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