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Even decacorns have their challenges

TechCrunch

The Los Angeles Times reported that “credit cards and digital payment apps such as PayPal offer some distinct advantages over cash, including the ability to recover money paid to scammers. If you use Zelle to pay someone who proves to be a con artist, you have only a slim chance of recovering the money from your bank.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

Connection Cafe

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground? But here I am, still alive. More detail here.

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Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books

Fast Company Tech

A Los Angeles city councilman holding horror and crime comics, purchased ca. 1954 [Photo: Los Angeles Daily News/Wiki Commons] How Comics got a bad name Comics first emerged in the early 1900s, when newspapers published humorous serialized comic strips. Will kids ever make the leap to more traditional prose?

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The best comedies streaming on Netflix right now

Mashable Tech

30 years after Beverly Hills Cop III , this sensational sequel sees Foley returning to Los Angeles to fight a new foe, reunite with old friends, and reconnect with his estranged daughter. Do Revenge Credit: Netflix Looking for a revenge flick that pays tribute to teen classics like Mean Girls , Heathers , Cruel Intentions , and more?

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New documentary chronicles a 1970s art group that reshaped Chicano identity

Fast Company Tech

He’s referring to Asco: Without Permission , a documentary that chronicles the story of the 1970s art group founded by multidisciplinary artist Patssi Valdez, muralist Willie Herrn III, painter and performance artist Gronk and writer and photographer Harry Gamboa Jr. One of Ascos most known works is Spray Paint LACMA.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

And that makes you wonder what contingencies the company has put into place in the event that it is someday taken over not by greedy Bitcoin con artists, but state-level actors or psychopaths. For instance, TikTok’s new chief executive, Kevin Mayer, a former executive of Disney, lives in Los Angeles, they say. billion for a 7.73

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