Author: Jack Slater
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The Colorful Taxi Cab Ceilings of India
Rachel Lopez is a journalist in Mumbai and she has been documenting the amazingly colorful taxicab ceilings of India this month on her Instagram. Here are a few of my favorites: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rachel Lopez (@thegreaterbombay) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rachel Lopez (@thegreaterbombay)…
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“The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election”
Julia Carrie Wong & Sam Levin reporting for The Guardian who captured the above audio: The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election, breaking his glasses and shouting, “Get the hell out of here.” Ben Jacobs, a Guardian political reporter, was asking…
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The Medium Car Crash
Evan Williams and his work are profiled in the New York Times by David Streitfeld. He’s behind Twitter and Blogger. There is one good point that succinctly explains a big problem with the web today: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and…
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Dead Cells is a Great Metroidvania
Rogue Legacy was a new style of metroidvania. It reset the castle when your character died, just like Rogue and Nethack, and randomly generated a new castle when you came back to life. Dead Cells has those generated dungeons and also changes out the progression system and combat to be somewhat Souls-like. I love the variety of weapons…
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“Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, did not dispute the account.”
Matt Apuzzo, Maggie Haberman, and Matthew Rosenberg for the Times: President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting. “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real…