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Lorne Michaels has made the decision to bring in Cecily Strong as Meyers’ new co-anchor, building on her breakout character the Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party by ensuring she can never do it again

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Yesterday we reluctantly posted on Mindy Budgor, memoirist and professional attention-seeker who’s telling anyone who’ll listen that she’s the first female Maasai warrior. Really we wanted to hear from readers. Here are two of the responses we received:

First off, @aerofloatbo writes:

I am a Maasai woman (from Kenya) and we have seen these (white) women come and go. We have Maasai women members of parliament, doctors, lawyers, professors, civil servants, teachers, nurses, business owners etc., but of course, we don’t exist in the eyes of fools like this Mindy woman whose sole purpose always appears to be to fetishize Maasai men (our sons, brothers, fathers and husbands) in one way or another. How many books are going to be written by white women about how they came and fell in love with a Maasai man, gave up everything for him, helped poor ignorant Maasai women, taught Maasai men how to behave etc, etc. We are sooooo fed up! I’m surprised it was an American this time because usually, the British are the WORST culprits. I can’t tell you how many British women troop through our villages every month with the express purpose of ‘teaching’ Maasai men something (or sleeping with them). And the problem with this Mindy fool is that she doesn’t realise that the men (whom without a doubt she spent money on by either buying them meals, clothes etc.) took her for a ride and laughed all the way to the bank while doing it. What a fool.

And here’s “Leah”:

As a Maasai woman I feel very offended by Budgor’s attempt to gain fame at the expense of Maasai culture. There is nothing unique she has done that a regular Maasai woman hasn’t done and/or experienced and we don’t call ourselves warriers for a good reason. It’s like me coming to America and claiming I am the first female football player because I spent two weeks at training camp! Her assertion is so ridiculous and really offensive to the Maasai people, the community was not involved, just a few selfish individual who are out to get a buck!

Thanks to @aerofloatbo, Leah, and the rest who joined in the discussion.

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But I do not like your old bishops. Your old bishops are so unlike your new pope.

Fornicators beware: sodomy, condoms and pornography are the work of the devil. That's the message of a speech posted online last week by the Catholic Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, John C. Niendstedt. A controversial religious leader with a stridently anti-gay stance, Niendstedt originally made the comments while speaking to the conservative Napa Institute Conference on August 2. The speech detailed the importance of family, as well as the devil's multiple attempts to weaken the institution of heterosexual marriage.

"Today, many evil forces have set their sights on the dissolution of marriage and the debasing of family life," Niendstedt said. "Sodomy, abortion, contraception, pornography, the redefinition of marriage, and the denial of objective truth are just some of the forces threatening the stability of our civilization. The source of these machinations is none other than the Father of Lies. Satan knows all too well the value that the family contributes to the fabric of a good solid society, as well as the future of God’s work on earth."

Niendstedt is full of shit—and so is his holy water.

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For a limited time, the New Museum Store will be hosting a very of-the-moment Privacy Gift Shop, which will feature “stealth wear” clothing and accessories that will help you dodge — or at least make you hope you are — surveillance methods.

The product line, designed by artist Adam Harvey and fashion designer Johanna Bloomfield, includes the Anti-Drone Scarf (it looks like a hijab and protects against thermal imaging surveillance), the OFF Pocket Phone Case (blocks wireless signals), the Metal Dollar Bill (shields RFID units in your wallet from would-be identity thieves), and the least-subversive of the lot, the IXNY Tee, which is a redesign of the iconic “I Love NY” T-shirt featuring OCR-resistant font that cannot be deciphered by the NSA.

Have an anxiety about something in your life? Be assured that someone will find a way to sell you something to assuage that fear.

If the Privacy Gift Shop ever wants to expand their selection, I hope they consider artist Evan Roth’s “TSA Communication” backpack plates in their selection, which certainly are a conversation starter with any TSA airport security official. Oh, and good luck going through airport security with any of these security hacks.

The Privacy Gift Shop opens at the New Museum (235 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan) on Wednesday, August 28 and continues until Sunday, September 22.

Not sure what to watch? Here's a sortable list of every Netflix TV series, ranked by IMDB ratings. [via GigaOm]

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Google and the National Football League met recently, reigniting speculation that Google will disrupt cable and satellite television providers. By constructing its ultra high-speed Google Fiber internet service in Kansas City, Austin and Provo to create a next-generation internet test bed, Google has unintentionally reinforced public opinion that its wants to compete with pay TV.

Sorry to disappoint the disruption freaks, but it just ain’t so.

The casual Google observer is easily distracted by everything from the Android to the company’s self-driving cars, but here, Google’s raison d’etre is quite simple: Advertising.

The NFL meeting and construction of Google Fiber is more of the same. Google won’t acquire or replicate existing business models that don’t fit “Google scale,” meaning organizing internet information on the scale of hundreds of millions, hundreds of billions or even larger, so its customers can advertise more effectively. Google advertisers can analyze and measure the results of digital advertising with fine-grained accuracy per user, per impression. Google’s rumored bid for the exclusive Sunday TV rights from the NFL doesn’t make sense because it lacks the scale of a Google business; likewise, thinking that Google Fiber would adopt anything resembling Comcast’s 40-year-old pay TV business model is just silly.

Google Fiber is a red herring. Google sources say the company discovered a direct relationship between increased internet speeds and increased internet usage. With faster connections, consumers searched more and watched more YouTube—all of which Google could monetize with more advertising. Google Fiber is bundled with pay TV because consumers almost always buy these two services together. So in this way, Google Fiber’s pay TV offering is indistinguishable from any other premium television offerings.

But Google Fiber is differentiated by internet speeds of up to a hundred times faster than the US average. It’s a test bed for an internet without limits. The goal here is to change the average consumer’s internet performance expectation to  1-Gbps speeds, decrease the cost of deploying this new technology and accelerate the adoption of 1-Gbps internet across the US by competing ISPs. When that happens, users will use Google services more, and Google makes more money through—you guessed it—advertising. Most casual observers assume a complicated cross-industry takeover strategy out of Google Fiber, but that’s because they’re not thinking as long term as Google itself: Google Fiber is an incredibly long play towards the most basic answer. Again, for those of you not paying attention, that would be advertising revenue.

So the question arises: If a bid for Sunday football rights and restructuring the pay TV business are not on Google’s agenda, what could have been discussed at the meeting with the officials governing America’s favorite sport?

Google Fiber was most likely a point of discussion among Google CEO Larry Page, YouTube content boss Robert Kyncl, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. But why talk about a decade-long plan for Google Fiber to reach a fraction of US households when you can broach the far more compelling topic of how 1-Gbps internet speeds will reinvent the NFL viewing experience?

Another probable discussion topic: how YouTube could increase engagement. Imagine the engagement possibilities should fans have the ability to tweet replays in real time via short YouTube videos. People already tweet along with their favorite shows, so fostering an extra level of participation by letting fans obsess together over highlights or controversial calls as the game progresses seems like a no-brainer.

Goodell’s visit to Google might have included a Chromecast demo. Chromecast, Google’s recently introduced $35 device that plugs into a television and makes streaming from Netflix and YouTube dead simple, would appear to be the perfect platform for streaming NFL football games too. Google could spend billions of dollars to acquire the rights to stream NFL football. But a better alternative for Google is to enable the NFL to create its own streaming service using Chromecast. The NFL is much better positioned to negotiate with its existing NFL broadcasters and teams to carve out an over-the-top NFL television streaming service that increases overall league revenues. Google could monetize and share in this new offering with its much superior analytics and digital advertising. Also it is much more capital efficient for Google not to spend upfront capital to acquire content and let the many content owners such as the NFL, news publishers and reality TV shows to choose Chromecast and sell them Google’s core strengths in analytics and digital advertising.

Also a likely discussion topic: last year’s team effort between the NFL and Google to integrate Google Plus Hangout multiuser video chat with NFL fantasy football. Hangouts are part of Google Plus, the company’s social network with more than 235 million unique active monthly users, which happens to be in the middle of an upgrade to 720-pixel high definition video. Just in time for the football season.

Those rumors of a Google bid for NFL Sunday Ticket doesn’t fit with the definition of Google business scale. Sunday Ticket gives subscribers access to any Sunday NFL game played anywhere in the US.  According to Bruce Leichtman, principal analyst at Leichtman Research, “Sunday Ticket is for bars, restaurants, gamblers and the misplaced fans that have moved to a state where their hometown team isn’t televised by local affiliates. One third of its approximately two million subscribers are commercial locations.”

Two million non-digital subscribers is not Google’s kind of business.

More in line with its strategy: Stream NFL Sunday Ticket games as an over-the-top television service. But this would put Google in direct competition with existing NFL broadcasters (CBS, NBC, ESPN and Fox) that currently pay the NFL a combined $18 billion a year. Most importantly, no matter how much people like the idea of disrupting pay TV, Google’s core business structure is simply unprepared to monetize an over-the-top football season.

No doubt, of course, that Google is attracted to the huge television advertising budgets. But Google will approach television differently, at Google scale, giving the content owners and advertisers a deeper data-driven understanding of their viewers, fine-grained advertising measurement that today’s TV ads lack and more personalized advertising. What it won’t do is spend billions of dollars to create a television content portfolio just to then turn around and stream it as an over-the-top version of Comcast. We can all agree that Google dreams bigger than that.

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For many environmentally conscious Americans, there’s a deep satisfaction to chucking anything and everything plasticky into the recycling bin—from shampoo bottles to butter tubs—the types of plastics in the plastic categories #3 through #7. Little do they know that, even if their local trash collector says it recycles that waste, they might as well be chucking those plastics in the trash bin.

“[Plastics] 3-7 are absolutely going to a landfill—[China's] not taking that any more… because of Green Fence,” David Kaplan, CEO of Maine Plastics, a post-industrial recycler, tells Quartz. “This will continue until we can do it in the United States economically.”

The Green Fence went up…and it’s not coming down

Kaplan is referring to an initiative the Chinese government launched last year ostensibly to reduce pollution. Dubbed “Green Fence,” the policy bans the import of all but the cleanest, most tidily organized bales of reusable rubbish—and bars some types altogether.

The program was supposed to end in November of 2013. Now Chinese industry sources say that Green Fence is here to stay, reports American Metal Market, supporting what many in the US recycling business have suspected.

Before Green Fence, when American households and businesses recycled their plastic, for the most part what they were really doing was sending it for collection at US recycling companies. Some of that plastic trash would be shredded, granulated and packed into bales, while other types were simply bundled up as is. US recycling companies would then export it to China.

The many lives of plastic junk

Why would China import this? Plastic has many lives. That means that what to Americans is just a used Stonyfield Farms yogurt container is actually valuable raw material to Chinese manufacturers, which use the plastic resin from the processed tub to make everything from laptop cases to cosmetics. Chinese recyclers would import the bales of used plastic, sorting the valuable stuff from the chaff, cleaning it and breaking it down into plastic resin that can be remolded by manufacturers.

Recycled plastic resin is much cheaper than “prime”—i.e. new—plastic resin. The vast majority of what’s used in plastic packaging still comes from prime resin, though that can be supplemented by resin from recycled plastics to make it cheaper. Particularly for manufacturers in countries with a high degree of worry about the environment, being able to say that recycled plastics were used to make a product counts as valuable marketing as well.

The US may have Save the Earth campaigns to thank for the embrace of recycling. But more likely, it was made possibly by China’s emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse. The more China made, the more it needed used plastics, eventually sucking up around two-thirds of the US’s plastic scrap each year, worth several billion dollars.

Cheap plastic’s toll on China’s environment

But China’s cheap plastic came at a cost. Anything recyclers couldn’t use was heaped onto China’s growing massif of trash mountains. Worse still, the majority of recycling processors are small firms—often mom-and-pop operations—that pollute heavily but are hard to regulate.

As outrage among the Chinese public over the country’s noxious air and befouled waterways has surged in the last few years, the Chinese government has scurried to respond. Maine Plastic’s Kaplan thinks that’s what’s behind Green Fence.

“Because China got this bad press for pollution, the Chinese government says, ‘You know what? It’s because of importation of plastic scrap. The reason… that people can’t breathe in Beijing is plastics emissions,’” he tells Quartz. “That seems kind of arbitrary.”

Though China obviously has many more severe sources of pollution, Green Fence’s suspension of 247 import licenses for domestic recyclers will force smaller outfits out of business, making environmental regulation easier for the government.

Plus, China actually needs the US’s and other countries’ plastic in order to meet the demands of its manufacturers. Perhaps to take address that, the Chinese government announced plans for 100 pilot Recycling Economy Cities where it will invest in developing infrastructure for recycling.

Time for a US recycling renaissance?

Historically, higher labor costs and environmental safety standards made processing scrap into raw materials much more expensive in the US than in China. So the US never developed much capacity or technology to sort and process harder-to-break down plastics like #3 through #7.

Green Fence might be a chance to change that, says Mike Biddle, CEO of California-based recycling company MBA Polymers. “China’s Green Fence offers a real opportunity to the US government and recycling industry to step up its efforts on recycling and catalyze a strong domestic recycling market in the US,” Biddle said at a recent webinar on Green Fence.

Kathy Xuan, president of Parc Corp, one of the few US companies that processes post-industrial and post-consumer scrap, agrees that Green Fence will be good for the US. “Definitely it’s going to create a lot of job openings,” Xuan tells Quartz, adding that “every job China did can be done here, but it costs more.”

More demand from US manufacturers

China’s virtual monopoly on processing made it so US manufacturers imported raw materials mostly from China. But with Green Fence shutting down processors, supply of plastic resins is much scarcer.

Parc Corp’s Xuan says more US companies are now buying from her company. The lower supply of plastic resin will presumably help other US recyclers because it will raise prices enough to allow them to hire and invest in new capacity.

But it will take time

It might not be that simple, though.

Developing new recycling capacity in the US will “eventually” benefit the country, says Maine Plastics’ Kaplan. For the moment, though, Green Fence restrictions have blocked Chinese demand for his company’s clean, sorted post-industrial scrap. And while US and other countries’ manufacturers need that scrap as well, finding those markets takes time.

Plus, the proximity of Chinese manufacturers to the Chinese plastic processors kept transportation costs down. Green Fence has changed that. New markets for processing and sorting plastic scrap are growing in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. But “after [the plastic is] processed, they send it to China, which costs extra money, which means we get less for the material,” says Kaplan.

With Green Fence remaining in place, unless US manufacturing demand for plastic resins picks up a lot, margins are likely to remain uninviting for all but the biggest US recyclers.

What does that mean for consumers? Given the choice, the best answer’s probably “paper.”

The Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive weapons system ever developed. It is plagued by design flaws and cost overruns. It flies only in good weather. The computers that run it lack the software they need for combat. No one can say for certain when the plane will work as advertised.

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In early September, Kaifu Lee, a popular Chinese venture capitalist and former president of Google China, announced to his microblog followers that he’d been diagnosed with lymphoma. His complaints about being overworked have gone viral, sparking debate about the over-zealous work ethic of China’s better-heeled. In a comment (registration required) that was forwarded over 100,000 times he said, “Before, I believed that hard work always bring returns. So I put a heavy burden on myself…Now I see that this idea of sacrificing health in the name of perseverance isn’t necessarily right.”

It’s widely known that China’s factory workers have had it with poor working conditions. But the labor woes of the country’s white-collar workers are often overlooked. That’s because Chinese entrepreneurs and employers take extreme working hours as a given, often with little complaint. Huawei president Ren Zhengfei once bragged that the telecom firm’s advantage over other multinationals was that his employees were willing to “devote more and suffer more than others.” (In the early days of its operation, staff would sleep over night on mattresses underneath their desks.) Lee admits in his blog post that he used to compete with others over who could sleep fewer hours. “I was naive…. now I am calm and can take time to think,” he wrote.

Accordingly, Chinese companies offer some of the fewest days of paid vacation in the world: five days for those who have worked at their company between one and 10 years. And many don’t even take those days off. According to one survey, less than 40% of Chinese employees polled this year said they weren’t given their full holiday. Three-quarters of Chinese workers say their stress levels are rising, compared with the global average of 48%, according to a 2012 survey by office space supplier Regus.

Chinese officials say they’re concerned about cases of guolaosi, the Chinese translation of the Japanese term for ”death by overwork,” even though extreme hours and dedication are still celebrated. Last year, when a Chinese engineer charged with developing China’s first carrier-based fighter jet died of a heart attack on the job, the state-run media extolled him as “a martyr” and national hero.

But as the response to Lee’s news shows, the chance to become a martyr isn’t rewarding enough. ”We all work too hard. Health should be number one. We need to think about this,” one blogger wrote (registration required). Another said, “That’s a tough lesson.” To better compete for top talent, some multinationals in Shanghai have started allowing more flexible hours and letting people work from home. One user wrote, “These words are particularly important for young professionals in big cities right now. Previous advice from successful business people have misled them to sacrifice themselves, their health, their time with family and friends… being a human is more important than working.” Work-life balance is now among the top five most important factors to potential Chinese employees, even ahead of financial security, according to the human resources consulting firm Randstad.

The hardship is taking its toll. Career management consultants say ”naked” resignations, in which workers quit one job before lining up another because they are frustrated or burned out, have been increasing in recent years.

Local improv groups everywhere are welcoming home their star players, warming them with blankets and soup and reassurances that they’ll get ’em next time, now that Lorne Michaels has drafted the final round of Saturday Night Live additions. Many of them we’ve already met: Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, and Noel Wells are all officially aboard, while the show has also made the relatively last-minute addition of stand-up comic and CollegeHumor writer Brooks Wheelan. Here he is making light of the very serious problem of meth addiction.

Also joining the cast is Mike O’Brien, a writer for the show who’s already developed his own devoted online following as the host of “7 Minutes In Heaven,” a web series in which he traps celebrities in the closet and forces them into awkward conversations and even more awkward attempts to make out. Here he is making light ...

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Oh, Benedict.

Which just goes to show you why, if you hire Simon Pegg for anything, you must keep him working every hour God sends, because otherwise he’ll just keep coming up with stuff like this.

Terrorists and GMail [Link] Michael Hayden, the former NSA and CIA director, quoted in the Washington Post: Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide, And later: We built it here, and it was quintessentially American," he said, adding that partially due to that, much of traffic goes through American servers where the government "takes a picture of it for intelligence purposes." This is damning on so many levels. I also don't recall them opening everyone's mail and taking a picture before email. Ignorance, deception and power always seem to march together.1 I particularly liked his reference to Rome. That gave me some hope that this current political environment is also in decline. ↩

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• The site title bar is now mounted to the bottom of the screen. This will allow you to mark a site/folder as read at any time.

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• When you add, move, or delete a site or folder, all of your open web browsers will reload to correctly show the change. This allows you to have NewsBlur open at home and at work, knowing they will be synced when you change or add sites.

You may be thinking to yourself, 1, 3, and 7 days back makes sense, but why 14 if the unread limit is at 14 days? Why, having 14 days as an option would only make sense if the full limit was… (stay tuned).

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Rainbows on the horizon are impossible to approach, let alone pass through – they flicker and fade like phantoms, except in the case of this iconic space.

Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur Eliasson is an enclosed circular walkway that sits atop the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark. Its colored glass spans from floor to ceiling and rotates visitors through five hundred feet of color, looping them through a rainbow of panoramic city views.

The experience of walking along this 500-foot path is at once reductive and complex. At each step, the city outside becomes a monochromatic landscape, filtered through the lens of single slices of color that rotate as you move.

From outside, the raised structure forms a bright beacon within the city, a recognizable icon thanks to its combination of round shape and vibrant color. As this project illustrates, powerful architecture can be about more than structure, building and void – it is also about shaping experience through color and light.

According to its Danish-Icelandic designer, it is “a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.”  In the end, is it an gallery space, a viewing platform, a permanent art installation … or does it perhaps span a spectrum of spatial definitions as well as colors?

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Russell Brand explains to Guardian readers the circumstances under which he was ejected from the GQ fashion awards after giving a speech about sponsor Hugo Boss's connection to the Nazis. It's a pretty much perfect example of gonzo writing: over the top, acerbic, witty, and funny -- but with a serious point that's made all the better for the loony style.

I could see the room dividing as I spoke. I could hear the laughter of some and louder still silence of others. I realised that for some people this was regarded as an event with import. The magazine, the sponsors and some of those in attendance saw it as a kind of ceremony that warranted respect. In effect, it is a corporate ritual, an alliance between a media organisation, GQ, and a commercial entity, Hugo Boss. What dawned on me as the night went on is that even in apparently frivolous conditions the establishment asserts control, and won't tolerate having that assertion challenged, even flippantly, by that most beautifully adept tool: comedy.

The jokes about Hugo Boss were not intended to herald a campaign to destroy them. They're not Monsanto or Halliburton, the contemporary corporate allies of modern-day fascism; they are, I thought, an irrelevant menswear supplier with a double-dodgy history. The evening, though, provided an interesting opportunity to see how power structures preserve their agenda, even in a chintzy microcosm.

Subsequent to my jokes, the evening took a peculiar turn. Like the illusion of sophistication had been inadvertently disrupted by the exposure. It had the vibe of a wedding dinner where the best man's speech had revealed the groom's infidelity. With Hitler.

Foreign secretary William Hague gave an award to former Telegraph editor Charles Moore, for writing a hagiography of Margaret Thatcher, who used his acceptance speech to build a precarious connection between my comments about the sponsors, my foolish answerphone scandal at the BBC and the Sachs family's flight, 70 years earlier, from Nazi-occupied Europe. It was a confusing tapestry that Moore spun but he seemed to be saying that a) the calls were as bad as the Holocaust and b) the Sachs family may not've sought refuge in Britain had they known what awaited them. Even for a man whose former job was editing the Telegraph this is an extraordinary way to manipulate information.

Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'

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The Navy reported several fatalities Monday morning following a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, but would not confirm news reports that put the number killed at four. The Navy Yard was placed on lockdown after multiple shots were fired inside a building on the base, the U.S. Navy said. At least 10 people were injured in the shooting, including eight civilians, one Washington Metro police officer and one base officer, D.C. Metro Police said. According to the Associated Press, four people were killed.

Dear Creepy, Invasive Portland Bartenders,

thank you for chiming in with your helpful opinions on whiskey, relationships, or whatever intimate moment it was I happened to be quietly sharing with my friend. Apparently sitting at the bar gives you carte blanche to intrude on what we had so naively thought was a private conversation. I was unaware that your proximity to patrons gives you permission to eavesdrop and contribute your worthless opinion, such as "My girlfriend does the same thing! Women are crazy, man". In summation, stop fucking spying on people who have the naivete to sit at the bar. Do not enter our conversation. We're not talking to you. And we're gonna move to a table now, you fucking creep. PS. I'm tipping you 5 percent.

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