Powerful people imprisoned by the cluelessness of their own isolation, locked up with their own motivated reasoning: "It's impossible to get a CEO to understand something when his quarterly earnings call depends on him not understanding it."...
Sincere apologies for our not posting here of late! We had some behind-the-scenes tech issues to contend with.
BUT we’re thrilled to be back with a fantastic #essay from Laura Bogart on how Greta Gerwig’s #Barbie and the film's tale of occupying liminal spaces was a reflection of her own experience of coming out later in life.
(we’ll also be posting a bunch of recent features throughout the day). Good to see everyone and we missed you all!
Hey Fedi!
I'm writing an argumentative essay about why cats should not be allowed outdoors unsupervised. If anyone of you have some cool papers relating to this I can read about and add, that'd be very helpful :D
PERSPECTIVE: When Manasvi Verma moved over 8,000 miles from New Delhi, India to St. Louis, she ate less of her Dadi's kadhi, but more of her roommate's mom's chicken noodle casserole. How has that changed her from the inside out and the outside in?
Looking for new writers to work with on @longreads stories. I prefer to read drafts of personal essays/reported essays but I also consider reported essay pitches, too. Rates start at $500. Read our submission guidelines: https://longreads.com/submissions/
It feels like the world is ending from every possible direction.
Maybe you feel like your world is ending too. And neither of us benefits from putting on a fake smile and keeping on as if we aren’t dealing with deep, existential, debilitating fear.
So here’s an uncomfortable question: does #marketing work even matter during an apocalypse?
Some thoughts about the question if and why (video) games are a form of art and why this matters. I plan to do a short series about the concept of underground gaming and had the feeling that answering this topic is quite central for what I want to do. If you agree or disagree, or have any thoughts about that matter reach out!
If you’re a @medium subscriber, consider dropping by and following my publication. You don’t have to subscribe to emails or anything, at least not just yet. Just click follow. Help get my numbers up.
It’s a daily column in the model of the classic newspaper columns of old about whatever crosses my mind each day. It’s usually pretty entertaining.
"In essence, the only certainty is that when Americans get richer—through generational wealth transfer or through industry—they tend to seek out McMansions."
"As a Palestinian, I refuse to mimic the oppressor by denying the humanity of the deceased. But this sadness sits inside the crater of certainty that the world will still refuse ours."
'Bullshitten' omdat het kan, door Dilan Yesilgöz #VVD
Debatteren en beargumenteren zonder je erom te bekommeren of wat je zegt wel waar is. Praten zonder je wezenlijk te interesseren voor de waarheid - @SheilaS
Here Be Dragons or: NUCLEAR YINYANG (sub-subtitle: "her love became a nuclear bomb")
8000 words inspired by #BreathOfFireIV covering: friendship, renting apartments, envy, #WorldWarII, and the #ethics of death. also several #music references to the point where the footnotes are practically a playlist of my time writing this #essay
"And this is the point: first came Adderall, then came the Internet. We didn’t get on Adderall because the Internet was too good. The Internet was good in the particular way that it was good because we were on Adderall."
A @pluralistic instant classic. I was familiar with many of the concepts he articulates from previous pieces of his I'd read, but not "schismogenesis," which I admit I was guilty of concerning the COVID vaccine. A must-read if you're not acquainted with Doctorow's brilliance. #essay#recommendedreading
Dickey Betts, cofounder of the Allman Brothers Band, died last week. In this essay for Paste, Matt Mitchell remembers his work on "Eat a Peach" and "Brothers and Sisters." "I contend that, between February 1972 and August 1973, there was no greater rocker walking among us than Dickey Betts," Mitchell writes. "Most musicians would kill to write 'Blue Sky,' 'Jessica' and 'Ramblin’ Man' over the course of a long career; Betts did it in just 16 months’ time, a creative peak few musicians of his caliber, genre and longevity have ever paralleled."
In order to treat his Crohn's disease, writer Andrew Chapman had to stop eating for three weeks and get all his nutrition from an IV bag. He writes for @longreads about what he missed in his time without food — social contact, black pepper crabs, roast chicken — and why he became obsessed with watching cooking shows.
Forcing your computer to rat you out - Cory Doctorow - Pluralistic (pluralistic.net)
Powerful people imprisoned by the cluelessness of their own isolation, locked up with their own motivated reasoning: "It's impossible to get a CEO to understand something when his quarterly earnings call depends on him not understanding it."...