A Wonk on the Wild Side | Chris Lehmann

Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened” is less a campaign postmortem than a wonk’s lament.

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Trump Trading Cards

Collect them all!

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The Problem with Music | Steve Albini

How record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions

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@fivetonsflax @ren @researchfairy
One interpretation/prediction by #TheBaffler etc is that the only people who can afford to be #journalists now has been filtered out by class through unpaid internships and low wages in expensive cities

So you can’t afford to be a journalist unless you are well off enough to do it as a vanity project (so won’t likely have a class consciousness)

Or if you’re so obsessed with the career that you’re not willing to risk your job by rocking the boat

Half-Truths Are Lies Too | Max Nelson

Writing was the centripetal force holding Brigitte Reimann together and desire the centrifugal force pulling her apart.

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Wow! Ich bin immer wieder überrascht, wenn ich merke, dass ich die Welt zu naiv in Gut und Böse einteile. Dass die Electronic Frontier Foundation #EFF die andere Seite der Google-Facebook-Meta-Medaille darstellt und eher eine Lobbygruppe für das "freie Internet" so wie multinationale BigTech-Unternehmen und nicht wie wir als einzelne Internet-User das verstehen möchten ist, kann man in diesem langen Artikel sehr gut nachvollziehen. #freeinternet #thebaffler #eff #bigtech
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine
All EFF’d Up | Yasha Levine

The lords of the internet care very little about user privacy—what they want to preserve, is their own commercial license against government regulation of any kind.

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I guess I know what rabbit hole I'm headed down next. #TheloniousMonk #jazz #thebaffler #PaulGrimstad #bop #bebop
Jazz Is Freedom | Paul Grimstad
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Jazz Is Freedom | Paul Grimstad

Thelonious Monk had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop.

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Trevor Jackson: impunity tends to be the result of 3 problems: culpability (elites or heads of state are seldom personally responsible for any crimes); precedent the human imagination for wrongdoing consistently outstrips laws & regulations) &scale (legal systems are better equipped to handle individual crimes instead of social ones).

In #thebaffler #xp

https://thebaffler.com/latest/no-consequences-jackson

No Consequences | Trevor Jackson

Decades of elite impunity have produced a crisis of political legitimacy. What will it lead to?

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#ClaireLouiseBennett’s “#Checkout19” is a testament to the validity of a #workingclass #avantgarde and a portrayal of the artist as a young woman. @rhiansasseen writes on this and other fictions of the supermarket.
https://t.co/qHrOPCzOEz
Lost in the Supermarket | Rhian Sasseen

Society’s biggest problems and anxieties mingle in the aisles of the supermarket. How does that manifest in the literature written about it?

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