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☆ Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's $1 million bounty. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has some kind of bounty out for whomever is behind the botnets that he says target certain users and suppresses the reach of their tweets. Million dollar bounty if convicted" in response to a Twitter user who claimed that botnets "silence" certain accounts. Musk and the user were referring to a thread where another user analyzed Twitter's recently open-sourced algorithm. Twitter users called attention to the difficulty in seeing direct messages that mention "gay", "queer", and "trans."

☆ Nike envisions a wild future with Olympics in outer space, clothing made of spider silk, and footballs make of stardust
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Nike recently published a fun and thought-provoking book about the company's next 50 years. The company playfully envisions athletic competitions in space and footballs made from stardust. The small 192-page book is mostly a fun, futuristic read about what Nike might be doing in 2073. Sam Grawe, who wrote the 2021 book Nike: Better is Temporary, is an editor and contributed essays. On a more terrestrial level, Nike foresees clothing made from spider silk and the emergence of volcanic glass compounds.

☆ Britain's V&A museum secures David Bowie archive, will make public in 2025
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - London's V&A museum said on Thursday it had secured the archive of late music star David Bowie for the nation, acquiring more than 80,000 items spanning his career that will be made available to the public from 2025. The museum, which hosted the critically acclaimed "David Bowie Is" exhibition in 2013, will open The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at its V&A East Storehouse in east London, where fans, school pupils and researchers will be able to gain insight into the pioneering British singer-songwriter's creative process. "The archive is fascinating, it follows David Bowie's career and his life was art," Kate Bailey, senior curator and producer, theatre and performance at the V&A, told Reuters. "With David’s life’s work becoming part of the UK’s national collections, he takes his rightful place amongst many other cultural icons and artistic geniuses," a spokesperson from the David Bowie Estate, said in the V&A statement about the acquisition. The museum said it secured the archive and could create the new centre thanks to the David Bowie Estate and a 10 million pound ($12 million) donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.

☆ From bloody Balkan war to World Cup heavyweight: the making of Croatia as a soccer nation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Croatia’s World Cup pedigree is an altogether different story. Štimac challenges Clarence Seedorf of the Netherlands during the 1998 World Cup third place playoff match, which Croatia won 2-1. The Croatia players celebrate a goal against France in the 1998 World Cup semifinals. Having been appointed after the team’s qualification for the 2018 World Cup, Dalić came with pressure on his shoulders. Antonio Bronic/Reuters“There is no place in the national team dressing room of Croatia for big egos, and everyone knows that.

☆ Overlooked No More: Jobriath, Openly Gay Glam Rocker in the ’70s
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-11 | by ( David Chiu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. His space alien persona and theatrical rock music drew comparisons to David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character, and his swaggering sound was likened to that of Mick Jagger. Onstage he moved like a ballet dancer. “We were so excited,” the actress Ann Magnuson, then a teenager, said in a phone interview. “‘Oh, did you see that helmet?’ You would talk about that in school the next day.”

Persons: ” Jobriath, Gladys Knight, ”, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Mick Jagger, “, Ann Magnuson Organizations: Times, NBC

☆ (видео) Becoming Ziggy Stardust. Вышел трейлер «Stardust» с Джонни Флинном в роли Дэвида Боуи
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-29 | by ( ) ru.diez.md time to read: 1 min

Вышел первый трейлер фильма «Stardust», рассказывающий о трансформации Дэвида Боуи в персонажа Ziggy Stardust и туре музыканта по США в 70-х. Синопсис фильма гласит: «В 1971 году двадцатичетырёхлетний Дэвид Боуи отправляется в свою первую поездку в Америку с агентом Mercury Records Роном Оберманом и встречается с миром, который ещё не готов к нему». Главную роль исполнил Джонни Флинн («Эмма», «Lovesick»), вместе с ним в фильме также играют Марк Мэрон («GLOW», «Easy») и Джена Мэлоун («Донни Дарко», «Голодные игры»). Британский музыкант Дэвид Боуи скончался 4 года назад на 70-м году жизни.

Persons: Ziggy Stardust, Дэвид Боуи, Рон Оберман, Джонни Флинн, Марк Мэрон, Джена Мэлоун Organizations: Mercury Records Locations: США, Америка

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