In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/09/a-saudi-princes-quest-to-remake-the-middle-east
The most ignorant man in America knows that Donald Trump is president — but that’s about it. Living a liberal fantasy is complicated.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-too-little.html
A child genius raised in poverty, she wanted to change the world. A horrific act of violence nearly destroyed her.
via The Atavist Magazine: https://magazine.atavist.com/promethea-unbound-child-genius-montana
In this politically charged climate, it feels like you have to be super careful with your language, no matter who you are or what side you’re on. Stories about people who say the “wrong” thing and suffer the consequences, including a very conservative Republican from Louisiana who’s lambasted for being too liberal.
Winning millions of dollars seemed as good a retirement plan as any.
via The Huffington Post: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
He’s plunged back into the land of the non-living, where he is told by a familiar face that he must sing karaoke to get back home, which he hesitantly does.
The electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-donald-trump
It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.
This morning when I awoke I had a number of messages that asked, “What do we do now? It was impossible for me to reply because my first th…
Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2016/11/about-that-election-2016.html
I don’t think that in my lifetime there will be a Woman in the White House. We learned that women can still be abused, physically and mentally. There will still be men and women who work to take decisions about control of our bodies, , we will not make as much money as our male counterparts, decisions about the people we love must have religious boundaries.
Word of advice: do not ask him to sign a Sling Blade DVD after a concert.
via GQ: http://www.gq.com/story/billy-bob-thornton-bad-santa-2-profile
I don’t think that in my lifetime there will be a Woman in the White House. We learned that women can still be abused, physically and mentally. There will still be men and women who work to take decisions about control of our bodies, , we will not make as much money as our male counterparts, decisions about the people we love must have religious boundaries.
Across the continent, rightwing populist parties have seized control of the political conversation. How have they done it? By stealing the language, causes and voters of the traditional left
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/01/the-ruthlessly-effective-rebranding-of-europes-new-far-right
I don’t think that in my lifetime there will be a Woman in the White House. We learned that women can still be abused, physically and mentally. There will still be men and women who work to take decisions about control of our bodies, , we will not make as much money as our male counterparts, decisions about the people we love must have religious boundaries.
Jennifer Frey drank herself to death.
via Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/the-writer-who-was-too-strong-to-live-1785661187
I don’t think that in my lifetime there will be a Woman in the White House. We learned that women can still be abused, physically and mentally. There will still be men and women who work to take decisions about control of our bodies, , we will not make as much money as our male counterparts, decisions about the people we love must have religious boundaries.
Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_secret_cost_of_chinese_buffets_part_1_20161102
Sam stood out from the start. “Born on third base,” as he says, not because his family had money but because he considers intellect, not class, to be the new driver in society.
Dean Baquet talks about covering tweets as news, his decision to use the word “lie” in a headline about Trump and why he’s not worried about libel suits from the new president.
Sam stood out from the start. “Born on third base,” as he says, not because his family had money but because he considers intellect, not class, to be the new driver in society.
A rare court case exposes the all-too-common horror of online harassment.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-womans-digital-life-was-weaponized-against-her/
What’s at stake when you marry for love?
via Harper’s Magazine : https://harpers.org/archive/2018/01/the-newlyweds/
Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy.
via Foreign Policy: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/14/the-secret-history-of-the-russian-consulate-in-san-francisco-putin-trump-spies-moscow/
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
Former Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich leveraged big deals and big-time basketball to build the university into a sports powerhouse, only to watch it burn amid charges of excess, exploitation and corruption.
Meitu’s apps are changing what it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/chinas-selfie-obsession
Photographic graffiti via camera gun!
This guy can secretly project graffiti onto other people’s photos with his gun camera (or “image fulgurator”).
“It was a terrible kiss, shockingly bad; Margot had trouble believing that a grown man could possibly be so bad at kissing.”
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person
We should call this what it is: the automation of selling out.
via The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly
These are the companies that have presented themselves as hip, huge, harmless . . . In fact, they are ruthless and as hungry for profit . . . They’re shark-like. Just eat up everything, take all of the world’s creations. Digitize them and offer them back to humanity either for free or for an incredibly low price. And don’t pay, or massively underpay the creators, and just kick back and put your feet up, and know that if Greg from Deerhoof doesn’t like it, well that’s fine, because there are a million other people lined up behind Greg who are perfectly happy to volunteer their music to exactly such a scheme in hopes of doing something besides being a barista their whole life.
Russia’s strongman president has many Americans convinced of his manipulative genius. He’s really just a gambler who won big.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/putins-game/546548/
These are the companies that have presented themselves as hip, huge, harmless . . . In fact, they are ruthless and as hungry for profit . . . They’re shark-like. Just eat up everything, take all of the world’s creations. Digitize them and offer them back to humanity either for free or for an incredibly low price. And don’t pay, or massively underpay the creators, and just kick back and put your feet up, and know that if Greg from Deerhoof doesn’t like it, well that’s fine, because there are a million other people lined up behind Greg who are perfectly happy to volunteer their music to exactly such a scheme in hopes of doing something besides being a barista their whole life.