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I love these so goddamned much. mymodernmet.com/math-cake-dina…
Happy Friday. Here’s the great Peggy Seeger dripping some cheerful feminist venom in 1979. youtu.be/8IGVxBb5uYk
I have some issues with the design, but this is an outstanding breakdown of millennials’ uphill economic battle. highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/po…
How might we have better empowered non-tech people to participate in the open internet? Could we have stopped its corporate calcification? twitter.com/nytimes/status…
“But why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to war to tell our stories when we have so much to offer?” nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Otis Redding has been gone 50 years. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
“The cost comes when people train themselves to ignore us.” niemanlab.org/2017/12/too-ti…
Loving @shiflett’s dual launch today: very handsome new sites for himself and his new company. shiflett.org/blog/2017/facu…
Conversation-starter of the year? newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
Critics should be concerned “not that Pence believes in God, but that he seems so certain God believes in him.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
“And it’s something almost beyond me to imagine, looking into Dudley’s eyes and saying, I’m sorry I didn’t save you from your own life.” twitter.com/thecut/status/…
Nothing pushes my morbid fascination buttons like @willsommer’s Right Richter. tinyletter.com/rightrichter
“Sitting inches from the president, Hannity covered the biggest issues of the day, serving as rudder and prompt.”
Sycophant? No. Puppeteer. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
Links: November 2017
Hello, dear reader!
November is gone, but its links remain.
Most of my writing energy this month went toward a post about the typography and spatial relationships underpinning my site’s recent redesign. I also wrote a handful of film reviews, the most substantial of which outlines my disappointment with the ambitious Loving Vincent, an animated film made from thousands of oil paintings.
Unsurprisingly, a fair amount of this month’s links are devoted to thinking through… See more →
Um. Roger Stone, who has Nixon’s face tattooed on his back, is vexed about the “hypocrisy of our current drug laws”? nytimes.com/2017/11/29/us/…
Whatever terrible things await in the next few months, the new @AndrewWk album cover will get me through. pitchfork.com/news/andrew-wk…
Product designers, here’s your chance to work with the great team at @oakstudios. oak.is/hiring/product…
Here’s @the_completist living up to its name with a thorough dissection of Hammer Films’ Frankenstein franchise. thecompleti.st/no4
Charlie Rose: “I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.” There’s a pattern here. twitter.com/millicentsomer…
Good @LeahFessler piece about how the problems with differing socialization of men and women perpetuate on @SlackHQ. work.qz.com/1128150/your-c…
Hey @KudosProject, what exactly is the difference between tips and “performance-driven rewards”? businessinsider.com/uber-for-busse…
Revisiting this comedy gem in light of Charles Manson’s death. youtu.be/Z5IrRe2F7qY
RIP Malcolm Young. Here’s to the folks in the background. youtu.be/-sUXMzkh-jI
Apparently @tweetbot mute filters can take regular expressions! Just zapped the 280 scourge from my timeline. ⚡️ blog.chrishannah.me/use-mute-filte…
“I couldn’t help but feel that he was a method actor so committed and demented […] that he’d permanently lost himself in his role.” twitter.com/lukeobrien/sta…
RIP Chuck Mosley. Peace to all the addicts. youtu.be/w7dD-JJJytM
“Email bombing is a perfect parable for 2017, a time in which we appear to be collectively losing faith in the promise of the internet.” twitter.com/JuliaAngwin/st…
“The posture of the political journalist has devolved from skepticism into outright cynicism at almost every turn.” vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/h…
Trump supporters haven’t “moved the goalposts for him. It’s that they have eliminated the goalposts altogether.” politi.co/2zs8Vna
Revisiting the Steele dossier: “Did any of the activities reported happen as predicted? To a large extent, yes.” justsecurity.org/44697/steele-d…
Movies Are Great, the Movie Industry Is Not Great, Exhibit 12,918b: theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
A nice overview of the engineering magic behind @Spotify’s Discover Weekly. hackernoon.com/spotifys-disco…
“Not only does music ingrain itself in our bodies in ways beyond simply the auditory, it also becomes more remarkable once it does.” twitter.com/nytopinion/sta…
“I don’t know how to […] make men see women as peers. But maybe acknowledging that we live in a culture that doesn’t do that, is a start.” twitter.com/lizzieohreally…
Music Is Great, the Music Industry Is Not Great, Exhibit 14,385c: washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…
Halloween’s over, but stay spooky with @daviddpeacock’s piano arrangement of @Disasterpeace’s It Follows theme. music.disasterpeace.com/track/title-2
Links: October 2017
Hello, dear reader!
October is gone, but its links remain.
For my part, I wrote a bit about my first ten years on Twitter, dusted off the ol’ dream journal, and published the full calendar for Robtober, my annual horror movie binge. I also wrote a bit about each of the 31 movies included in Robtober this year. They’ll all be collected on my site later, but for now they’re available on Letterboxd.
With Robtober keeping… See more →
“Our data implies that gender differences may lie not in how women act but in how people perceive their actions.” hbr.org/2017/10/a-stud…
Today I learned that the high five was created in 1977 by the first openly gay athlete in Major League Baseball. cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…
“We had heard people […] take refuge in tribalism, and appeal to extremes. But the report mentioned little of that.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“The top 1% alone holds twice as much value as the bottom 90%. That’s where most of the benefit to an increase in stock values goes.” twitter.com/washingtonpost…
A great case study in industry-backed deregulation and the flimsiness of the Trump administration’s ethics rules. nytimes.com/2017/10/21/us/…
“Trump’s populist, nationalist agenda has largely been replaced by the agenda of the corporate right.” newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
“[B]e wary of how you’re reacting to a biased sample […] outliers don’t offer you meaningful information about who most protesters are […]” twitter.com/voxdotcom/stat…
“It’s almost as though [university and fraternity stakeholders] are completing the second half of the same hazing rite that killed the boy.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…
“What we need to start talking about is the crisis in masculinity.” twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/s…
I can now confirm that getting a nod from Thanks for Making is a really great way to start your day. Thanks, @FictiveCameron! twitter.com/FictiveCameron…
Okay, fine, dance party over, back to cleaning. 😞 youtu.be/-T8R_VDTOYQ
the shuffle is on fire all hail the shuffle youtu.be/Z97_gljMeaY
fuck it i’ll just live in filth youtu.be/3Va981qGlxM