This week’s newsletter has a more pleasing than usual ratio of fun things to doomsaying. And a recommendation for a long and excellent profile of TikTok hype houses.
TFW You’ve Done Nothing Wrong
This one’s about police brutality. I suspect that most of my readers (I assume there’s at least one or two of you out there still) are already informed on the subject, so I am not sure why I wrote this. I don’t know what good it will do.
Quit Shopping at Amazon
Seriously, just stop giving extra money to Piss-bottle Jeff.
Hella Dope
Today’s newsletter contains a short description of the differences between the regulatory structure for the parallel medical and recreational cannabis markets in Massachusetts, and also some dogs with very funny noses.
Momentarily Take the Form of an Enormous Bird
Shamefasted
Today’s newsletter is about the concept of shame. There are also some pretty good tweets and kittens.
All Joy/No Doomscrolling
Abort, Retry, Fail?
In today’s newsletter, it all comes back to realizing that all of politics right now is basically the principle that “there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Secretly Ironic 