Andy Warner

I worked for Jared Kushner. He’s the wrong businessman to reinvent government.

I worry that this new office will be more of the same: a vanity project, one that exists primarily to put Kushner in the same room with people he admires whom he wouldn’t have had access to before, glossing government agencies in the process with a thin veneer of what appears to be capitalism but is really just nihilistic cost-cutting designed to project… See more →

A quick overview of the tense North Korea situation. @thenib is really killing it with this kind of thing lately. thenib.com/north-korea-te…

Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking

While assessing the significance of Flynn’s and Sessions’s meetings with Kislyak, an ambassador, consider this:

The label ‘intelligence official’ is not always cleanly applied in Russia, where ex-spies, oligarchs and government officials often report back to the intelligence services and elsewhere in the Kremlin.

What Is Race?

A good crash course on race from Whit Taylor.

Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now

I’ll probably have this… See more →

A crash course on the history of Emoji, the Unicode Consortium, and how Emoji expansion could be democratized. thenib.com/who-makes-emoji

Barbara Crampton on Stuart Gordon, Chopping Mall, and the new wave of indie horror

For fans of 1980s B-horror, here’s a good AV Club interview with the delightful Barbara Crampton.

Anti-Christ in a custom van: The churchy cheap thrills of A Thief In The Night

It may seem impossible to not think of the end of the world in poetic terms, but never underestimate the premillennialists.

Why Punching Down Will Never Be Funny

Watters and… See more →

“This is about bringing the sci-fi robots of our childhood to life.” thenib.com/the-league-of-…

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There’s nothing wrong with walled gardens. They’re safe spaces. They take care of your enjoyment and entertainment, so you don’t have to.

But there also a bit boring. I certainly don’t relish the idea of spending my days within the boundaries of someone else’s vision.

There’s a different kind of garden. It takes its name from another short story by Borges.

The Garden of Forking Paths. It is uncontrolled. It is full of possibilities. It’s… See more →

A fantastic explainer comic from @AndyComics on how gerrymandering is keeping the GOP in control of the House. thenib.com/house-democrat…

A great breakdown of how the super rich funnel insane amounts of money into politics, enabled by Citizens United. thenib.com/dark-money

“All put together, invasive species cost the US more than $120 billion a year in damages and control costs.” medium.com/the-nib/the-sn…