Long reads
“I haven’t heard about anyone selling out for a long time.” Toby Shorin writes a long piece titled After Authenticity, covering the hipster aesthetic, the difference between “selling out” and “blowing up,” and how we define currency in an age of infinite frictionless reproduction.
Matt Yglesias’ 2015 “edgy” article American Democracy is Doomed is looking more and more accurate.
I haven’t read the whole thing but Covering Addiction Through Solutions Journalism seems like a pretty great great way to approach this health crisis.
You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride
Acting on a hunch they got from an Infowars video, the FBI held an
African-American man for 5 months before finally admitting he had not actually committed any crimes. He did lose his job and his home while locked up, so at least they were able to hurt him anyway.
ICE grabbed DACA recipient Daniel Ramierez Medina during an immigration raid, and made up gang affiliations to try to deport him despite his permit to stay. Courts eventually ruled that he’d done nothing wrong and should be allowed to remain in the country, but Medina spent quite a bit of time in jail before being exonerated.
An unmarked NYPD vehicle knocked a cyclist off his bike, claimed his bag
was full of marijuana, and charged him with resisting arrest. It kinda
looks like they just hit a guy on a bike and then lied about it.
A homeless man scraped together $10 to buy a meal at Burger King. The cashier thought his bill was fake. He spent three months in jail.
Cultivating interest
A museum of commercial signage in Cincinnati.
Sweden’s gone almost entirely cash-free. So have its criminals. That means mostly online scams, some jewelry smash-and-grabs, and the
odd spectacular The Fast and the Furious-inspired heist in which hijackers jump onto a moving truck from a blacked-out car… but also owl trafficking. Obvs.
Twitter jokes about The Atlantic.
Cultivating joy
Kitten cuddles with owl.
If cats ran a traditional Japanese tattoo parlor, it might look kind of like this.
This kitty.
“I haven’t heard about anyone selling out for a long time.” Toby Shorin writes a long piece titled After Authenticity, covering the hipster aesthetic, the difference between “selling out” and “blowing up,” and how we define currency in an age of infinite frictionless reproduction.
Matt Yglesias’ 2015 “edgy” article American Democracy is Doomed is looking more and more accurate.
I haven’t read the whole thing but Covering Addiction Through Solutions Journalism seems like a pretty great great way to approach this health crisis.
You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride
Acting on a hunch they got from an Infowars video, the FBI held an
African-American man for 5 months before finally admitting he had not actually committed any crimes. He did lose his job and his home while locked up, so at least they were able to hurt him anyway.
ICE grabbed DACA recipient Daniel Ramierez Medina during an immigration raid, and made up gang affiliations to try to deport him despite his permit to stay. Courts eventually ruled that he’d done nothing wrong and should be allowed to remain in the country, but Medina spent quite a bit of time in jail before being exonerated.
An unmarked NYPD vehicle knocked a cyclist off his bike, claimed his bag
was full of marijuana, and charged him with resisting arrest. It kinda
looks like they just hit a guy on a bike and then lied about it.
A homeless man scraped together $10 to buy a meal at Burger King. The cashier thought his bill was fake. He spent three months in jail.
Cultivating interest
A museum of commercial signage in Cincinnati.
Sweden’s gone almost entirely cash-free. So have its criminals. That means mostly online scams, some jewelry smash-and-grabs, and the
odd spectacular The Fast and the Furious-inspired heist in which hijackers jump onto a moving truck from a blacked-out car… but also owl trafficking. Obvs.
Twitter jokes about The Atlantic.
Cultivating joy
Kitten cuddles with owl.
If cats ran a traditional Japanese tattoo parlor, it might look kind of like this.
This kitty.
Secretly Ironic 