Terry Parris Jr.

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 →

Congrats also to Pulitzer finalists @JuliaAngwin, @thejefflarson, @suryamattu, @lkirchner, and @terryparrisjr! pulitzer.org/finalists/juli…

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 →

How the “garbage in, garbage out” principle applies to artificial intelligence: “How Machines Learn to Be Racist.” propublica.org/article/breaki…