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Al Sharpton had some terribly patronizing and unfortunate things to say about young activists recently in a Washington Post profile. Like this comment in response to his national youth director, Mary-Pat Hector, 17:

"The issue with my generation is we're more about the Occupy organizing model," she told Sharpton now. "You know, everyone can be a leader, that kind of thing."

"I hear them saying that," Sharpton said. " 'We don't want Al Sharpton taking over our movement.' But my question is: What movement? Y'all ain't got nothing to take over."

"They want everything to rise from the ground up," Hector said.

"Fine, okay, but then tell me your strategy," Sharpton said. "You burned the building down. Great. Now what?"

And this:

Is there anyone else who can do all of this? Anyone other than me? Seriously, I'm talking about anyone else?"

This is what Sharpton was asking the next day, back in the hotel conference room, meeting again with the 25 community leaders from his National Action Network. The issue at hand was one Sharpton thought about often: Who, if anyone, was in place to become the next Al Sharpton? He wanted to invite some younger national leaders to join his vigil with the Garners on King Day, but he didn't know whom to invite. "What ever happened to Ben Jealous?" Sharpton asked, referencing the former leader of the NAACP. "How about talented leadership in Chicago? Anyone good coming up behind Jesse in Chicago?"

Naturally, Sharpton's comments have sparked outrage among younger generations of activists. 

I. Don't. Hate. Al. Sharpton. The way he performs justice work, however, is dangerous.

-- deray mckesson (@deray) February 8, 2015

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(Est. 1886) "The Seattle Police Department is the largest Municipal law enforcement agency in Washington State. Seattle Police Department Staffing: 1,820 (approx.)"

Design by: DEI Creative

Opinion/Notes: It's no Studio Dumbar Dutch Police-level work, but it's a certain improvement. At least in functionality. The previous logo was only missing Shawn Kemp from it to be a full picture of what Seattle is. The new logo starts out good with a nice drawing profile of Chief Seattle but it then deteriorates from there with fairly generic typographic that hasn't been fully resolved on how it sits on a curve and the shape of the shield is pretty aleatory. The striped texture could have been cool if it were less subtle and more scalable. Overall, a change in the right direction but it could have used 3 or 5 more rounds of finessing in every aspect.

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Select Quote: SPD's patch and shield were designed 42 years ago. They're based on a design taken from a 1939 Marching Drill team flag. It's meant to represent Seattle and includes the Space Needle, and a nod to Boeing. While it's served us well, the shield is very detailed and is hard to see clearly when scaled down. The color scheme also clashed with the new uniform.

With the change to a new uniform and patrol vehicle, it just made sense to reconsider the entire look of the department.

The new design emphasizes simplicity and improved readability for quick identification, as well as bringing back the symbol of the City of Seattle, the Chief Seattle seal. The new patch keeps our current motto "Service, Pride, Dedication (SPD)."

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The new logo for Khabarovsk Airport in Russia is a flying bear. The Russians had a field day with it in social media. Without a nekkid Putin or Russian clichés, this is actually a very interesting logo.

Ava DuVernay admits she’s not expecting a call from Marvel, and even if she got one she’d have to start by even figuring out who Marvel’s characters are. But which would you rather have: someone who loves examining heroes and myths and can admit they have things to learn, or somebody who is totally fine with being the world builder of a superhero universe while seeming dismissive of nerds, confused about character origins, and puzzled by the idea of self-sacrificing heroes?

If Marvel actually made that phone call, DuVernay would be the first woman to direct a feature film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she’d be the first director of color to helm a film in its continuity since Ang Lee in 2003. After Selma, the obvious choice from Marvel’s confirmed lineup would be Black Panther, but Captain Marvel and Inhumans are also upcoming origin stories without attached directors that we’d be happy to see DuVernay take. But since she mentioned an origin story, how about Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan?

(via Comic Book Movie)

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In the latest episode of The Tonight Show‘s “Kid Theater”, host Jimmy Fallon and actor Michael Keaton, the Oscar-nominated star of the breakout film Birdman, read adorably written scenes by elementary school children who were only given the title “Birdman” and nothing else.

The scenes that you’ll be reading are not from the actual movie. They’re all written by elementary school kids. We gave them no direction, we just gave them the title and we asked them to write a scene based on what they think a movie called “Birdman” would be about.

During a commercial break, the two men talk about trucks and have fun with local station promos.

Bienvenida Cuba! Netflix is now available pic.twitter.com/rMocX4Bk73

— Netflix US (@netflix) February 9, 2015

See, this is how to spread democracy or whatever, America—through binge watching Orange is The New Black. Take note, Obama.

As part of their initiative to roll out on a global scale over the next two years, Netflix has announced today they’ll be launching streaming service in Cuba, thus becoming one of the first companies to take advantage of the recently relaxed trade restrictions between Cuba and the United States.

Netflix will offer the same $7.99 monthly rate they do in the United States, though it will still be considered an international purchase and will require a credit or debit card as the payment method. They will be sure to offer all of their original content such as the aforementioned OITNB, House of Cards, and Marco Polo, family programming like King Julien and The Adventures of Puss in Boots, and Netflix documentaries. Beyond that, their catalog will most likely differ from that of the U.S. and Canada, with a possible focus on Cuban content creators.

“We are delighted to finally be able to offer Netflix to the people of Cuba, connecting them with stories they will love from all over the world,” Netflix co-founder and CEO deed Hastings said in a statement today. “Cuba has great filmmakers and a robust arts culture and one day we hope to be able to bring their work to our global audience of over 57 million members.”

Netflix has been offering services to Lain American viewers since 2011 and now has almost 5 million subscribers there; they also hope to expand to Japan in the fall, and in 2016, to every territory in the world with high speed Internet service.

(via The Verge)

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Get with the times Wallace. With that many sheep around you could be reading about Gromit’s life sentence on a tablet. Much less palatable to hungry (and sad) sheep.

The Atlantic has covered an interesting trend in technology professionals and scientists who are trying to extend the networked world further into rural communities, and it involves some of the greatest dreams of android-kind: electric sheep.

Here is an actual quote from a professor from Lancaster University, who specializes in distributed systems: “Sheep can be connected to the Internet or a portion of a river or a tree.”

Okay, so what he means is that sheep collars can easily be made into wifi hotspots, or into small sensors that, in a distributed network across the herd, could monitor pollution for environmental scientists, weather for meteorologists, or herd movements for farmers who want an alert if a dog attacks. But that’s still an amazing sentence.

Additionally, a group of internet-enabled herd animals could be a means of connection to the outside world for nomadic herders. Such solutions have actually been tested with the cooperation of the native Sámi women who make their living herding reindeer in Northern Scandinavia, where the remote, mountainous, environmentally protected terrain makes it difficult to, for example, establish and maintain cell towers.

You can read the whole article here.

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A group of five Wisconsin men recently built a beautiful ice sculpture of Stonehenge on a frozen lake near the small town of Lake Mills. The sculpture, entitled Icehenge, was built of ice blocks that each weighed about 300 pounds. The group cut the blocks out of the lake with ice saws. It’s not their first attempt at Icehenge–they partially built the sculpture last year but were stymied by subzero temperatures.

Unfortunately it is too late to see Icehenge, as it was taken down due to warm temperatures and safety issues. However Lake Mills-based photographer Eli Wedel took some wonderful photos of the sculpture during its brief existence. The Icehenge group consisted of Lake Mills-area residents Drew McHenry, Kevin Lehner, Quinn Williams, Alec Seamars, and Patrick Shields.

photos by Eli Wedel

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A beautiful orange tabby named Tea Tiger lazily reclines on a leopard-spotted kitty sofa in front of a portable heater, only moving to clean himself or to warn the other kitties to stay away.

image via shironekoshiro

Artist and urban geographer Daniel Rotsztain has visited and drawn every single branch of the Toronto Public Library in a project combining “his love of Toronto, geography, architecture and exploring the city by bike, foot and TTC.” Drawings are regularly posted in the ongoing series All the Libraries Toronto. He also created a handy map of each branch he’s posted.

Rotsztain wrote about why he chose to take on the project.

A lot of people talk about how Toronto is divided, ignoring the things that unify us, like our library system. No matter where I am in this city – Scarborough, Etobicoke, East York, North York, York or the old city of Toronto – I feel at home at the libraries I visit.

Every branch, though familiar, takes on the special characteristics of its neighbourhood. Toronto’s libraries can be found in heritage buildings, storefronts, malls, strip malls and community centres.

Prints are available to purchase on his website and at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival pop-up shop in the Toronto Reference Library.

images by Daniel Rotsztain

via Coudal Partners

A clever yellow Lab named Baxter shows his brother Pluto how to get his leash out of the way of the closing trunk door so that they can be on their way to the dog park. According to their human, Baxter figured out how to do this all on his own.

Baxter loves going to the dog park and realized one day that I couldn’t close the trunk with his leash hanging out. One day, he casually pulled it in and my jaw dropped. Obviously, he isn’t willing to wait for Pluto to come to the same realization.

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While nothing stunts the imagination more than taking an emoji at face value, there are times when the literal interpretation cannot be disregarded.

Public opinion has turned, sharply and loudly, in favor of supporting vaccines. Yay! It took an outbreak of measles at Disneyland for it to happen . Boo! (Your grandmother might have survived her measles, but for others it can be fatal.)

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MOBILE, AL—Saying the memories they made today would last the rest of their lives, gay couple Jeremy Newell and Aaron Mitchum of Mobile, AL confirmed Monday that they had always dreamed of getting married surrounded by hostility.

Portland, Oregon-based photographer Jarred Decker shot a photo of a waterfall in Oregon’s Silver Falls State Park that looks uncannily like a reptilian eye. He says the eye effect was achieved quite by accident. The photo–which he has entitled “Eye of the Waterfall”–was shot back in November 2014, and prints are available for purchase online.

photo by Jarred Decker

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Dammit, Steve. (comic by Pandyland)

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From GIZMODO‘s Casey Chan:

Anthony Bourdain has a new show of sorts that explores the craftsmanship of certain items and the people behind them and the first episode focuses on Borough Furnace, a small metal casting workshop that makes handcrafted cast iron skillets. You see a bit of the process of how they turn recycled iron into cookware.

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Wildlife photographer Megan Lorenz captures a curious pair of burrowing owls.

Oh god, HIFI TUNING DISC DEMAGNETIZER at Music Direct.

Improves Digital Playback, Both Audio and Video

After months of hands-on testing by dedicated audiophiles, HiFi-Tuning has created this latest version of the Disc Demagnetizer, adding a second demagnetization cycle at a different frequency. This makes the HFT Disc Demagnetizermuch more effective than other demagnetizers, yet it costs less, too!
Very Fast, Very Effective

Each demagnetizing cycle on the Disc Demagnetizer takes about 8 seconds. For best results, after the first cycle, flip the disc over and run a second cycle. You will hear greater clarity, focus and a substantially lower noise floor. On video discs, the improvement can be profound, offering stunning improvements to video playback.

Demagnetize a Disc?
We are frequently asked how it’s possible for an aluminum disc to magnetize. The important thing to remember is that just because a disc is nominally made from polycarbonate and aluminum, this does not mean these are the only ingredients. Inks used on the disc label and even the aluminum substrate itself may contain materials that can pick up and store a magnetic charge. This can happen as the disc is moved in and out of the case or even in the CD transport itself as the disc is spun at high speeds. The benefits of demagnetization can be heard on all discs from brand new CD’s to CD-Rs, even DVDs, Blu-Ray and other formats will benefit.

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