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Sign Language

Today’s newsletter is about gestural evolution, regulatory arbitrage, and homecoming dances. And a very smol cat.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on November 17, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Sign Language

Newsletter: Why’s Everybody Look so Nasty?

Featuring Galaxie 500, facetuning in the Paris Review, Wallace Shawn on fascism, anteaters and corgis. Bonus: Three music recs.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on October 30, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Newsletter: Why’s Everybody Look so Nasty?

No Such Thing as Dysfunctional

Today’s newsletter is about the entrenched interests of the status quo, the fear of change, and kittens.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on September 22, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on No Such Thing as Dysfunctional

Hints and Allegations

Today’s newsletter is about genocide, with a bonus set of links to important articles about economic crisis, climate crisis, and voter suppression. There’s also some nonhorrible stuff in it, like funny Tweets and some very cute dogs, but mostly it’s very upsetting and you shouldn’t read it.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on September 16, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Hints and Allegations

I don’t argue with people John Brown would’ve shot

Today’s newsletter is about re-examining the subtext of school lessons, the intractable screwed-up-ness of the carceral state, and a goddamn hilarious story about someone’s Desi uncle who ordered too much rice from the grocery.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on September 4, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on I don’t argue with people John Brown would’ve shot

Some of those who work forces

Today’s newsletter is about how 1992’s “Killing in the Name” is still relevant.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on August 27, 2020September 4, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Some of those who work forces

Chronicle of a death foretold

Today’s newsletter has a lengthy metaphor about the Gabriel García Márquez’s novel of that title.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on August 1, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Chronicle of a death foretold

Stop doomscrolling, it’s all collected here already

Today’s newsletter begins with Ecuadorean mask squads and ends with doom, with a kitten chaser.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on July 29, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Stop doomscrolling, it’s all collected here already

Just Another Long Black Letter Day

Today’s newsletter is about the bleak expanse of sameness and horror stretching before us endlessly to the horizon.

Author Aaron WeberPosted on July 17, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Just Another Long Black Letter Day

Daily Doomscroll

Today’s newsletter is about doomscrolling, fascism, and gibbons. Also an interview with Jia Tolentino and a couple good articles in Foreign Affairs.
Author Aaron WeberPosted on July 11, 2020Categories WordsLeave a comment on Daily Doomscroll

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