Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan’s views on China.
The Group Chats That Changed America // Ben Smith // Semafor
During the Holocaust, there was a word for a prisoner who was resigned to his death: a Muselmann.
Heteropessimism of the Intellect // Arielle Isack // The Baffler
When the Rilo Kiley singer and guitarist Blake Sennett wrote them 25 years ago, he concurred with the lyrics of “Pictures of Success,” a song about longing to arrive at a destination despite, or because of, the inability to fully imagine it.
The Resurrection of Rilo Kiley // Reggie Ugwu // The New York Times
First the New Yorker Pat the Bunny profile now this! Mainstream media is Tapped In to my 14-year old brain.
When Monique looks back on the night she decided to join Mary Kay, she remembers being hungry.
How One Woman Lost $75,000 to an MLM // Bridget Read // The Cut
It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring the judges who demand due process.
White Supremacy Is Apocalyptic for Everyone // Hammer and Hope Editors
The French Surrealist Jean Cocteau once said that the cinema was “death at work.”
David Cronenberg Takes High Tech to the Graveyard // Adam Nayman // The New Republic
I saw The Shrouds this week and it was maybe my fav movie of the year… sue me!
The last time we saw him, we saw all of him.
Is Anthony Weiner Ready to Go Another Round? // Josh Tyrangiel // The Atlantic
Bonus Read:
The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump // Grace Byron // The New Yorker
