Month: February 2023
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Jazz v Spurs
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Will Hardy as the Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Ochai Agbaji (30) shoots the ball as the Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen (23) as the Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. -
How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled | The New Yorker
How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled
The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/how-the-biggest-fraud-in-german-history-unravelled
Last summer, a grainy photo appeared to show Marsalek in an upscale Moscow neighborhood, wearing a red Prada jacket and climbing into an S.U.V. “It actually does look like him,” Rami El Obeidi, the former Libyan spy chief, mused on Twitter. “Except, knowing him, he never wore Prada (unless Russia got the better side of him). He preferred Brioni, like I do.” ♦
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Jazz v Spurs
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Kris Dunn (11) pulls down a rebound as the Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz forward Juan Toscano-Anderson (95) defending San Antonio Spurs guard Devonte’ Graham (4) as the Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay (22) as the Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. -
TikTok’s “Corecore” Is Where Men Scream Their Anguish
TikTok’s “Corecore” Is Where Men Scream Their Anguish
The trend’s throwback to Dada offers a warning about the crisis of men’s mental health and the rise of the far right.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/802093/tiktok-corecore-is-where-men-scream-their-anguish/
But experts have shown in studies that simply consuming doom-filled images actually stops audiences from taking action. Far from inspiring viewers to leap off their couches and charge into the street, these videos retraumatize us and paralyze us in fear.
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The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines | The New Yorker
The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines
When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines
The footage shows a darkened tunnel, some thirty feet in diameter, with an internal frame of large steel girders. The camera descends at five feet per second. At around eight hundred feet, moving figures appear in the distance, travelling downward at almost the same speed. It is two men sliding down the girders. They have neither helmets nor ropes, and their forearms are protected by sawed-off gum boots. The camera continues its descent, leaving the men in darkness. Twisted around the horizontal beams below them—at sixteen hundred feet, at twenty-six hundred feet—are corpses: the remains of men who have fallen, or perhaps been thrown, to their deaths. The bottom third of the shaft is badly damaged, preventing the camera from going farther. If there are other bodies, they may never be found.
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Who Destroyed Live? Alt-Rock Band Torn Apart By Drama, Crime, Lawsuits – Rolling Stone
How an Alleged Con Man Tore Apart One of the Nineties’ Biggest Bands
Live had some of the alt-rock era’s hugest hits, but in recent years the former bandmates have been bitterly divided by legal drama and interpersonal conflict
via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/
WHEN IT COMES to Nineties alt-rock bands, Live falls somewhere between Matchbox 20 and Creed on the cool meter. Even at the peak of their popularity, when they were packing arenas, critics had virtually no use for them. “Song after song depended on the same groove — soft verse, LOUD CHORUS,” read a typical concert review in a May 1995 issue of Rolling Stone. “But unlike, say, the Pixies’ blare, Live’s volume twiddling felt as predictable as a gag in a Jim Carrey movie.”
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How the War in Ukraine Ends | The New Yorker
How the War in Ukraine Ends
An eminent historian envisions a settlement among Russia, Ukraine, and the West.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/how-the-war-in-ukraine-ends
Russia is much bigger; it has many more people. Also, the Russian leadership doesn’t really care about its people. If the Russian leadership throws twenty thousand untrained recruits into the meat grinder and three-quarters of them die, what do they do? Do they go to church on Sunday and ask forgiveness from God? They just do it again. People talk about Stalin and the big sacrifices that the Soviet people made in World War Two, losing twenty-seven million people. They were enslaved collective farmers. He had millions and millions more of them. He threw them into the meat grinder and they died. Then he threw more into the meat grinder!
