links

Links to other people’s stuff.

Tom Breihan in Stereogum: It’s wild that we ever knew a time before “Seven Nation Army.” Rock was moribund, long in the tooth, a phenomenon that existed in quotation marks and was in need of reviving. And yet nobody had ever put those specific notes in that specific order before Jack White, fucking around at […]

Posted on 31 March 2023 and filed under links, music, outbound

Matthew Grimm in the Des Moines Register writing on racism in his home state of Iowa: There is an absolute correlation between insisting you live in utopia and demonizing people for pointing out hard realities that it’s not.

Posted on 25 September 2020 and filed under links, outbound, small

Stephanie Foo: I’ve met so many incredible women of color who’ve left their newsrooms because they burned out from this job. These are women who survived war zones, worked 10-hour days for years, didn’t take vacations, had three internships going simultaneously, and sat stone-faced in response to aggressive and outright racist editors. And yes, they […]

Posted on 23 September 2020 and filed under links, outbound, small

Why Grown Ass Men Get So Emotional About Carly Rae Jepsen

Posted on 19 September 2020 and filed under links, music, outbound

Frank Chimero: “It’s surprising how quickly we consented to reading everything through streams and algorithms, and how ill-equipped we are to emotionally manage it. Everything is slotted alongside anything else, so it is natural to feel like everything is connected, but nothing in the world fits together. We all know how streams and advertising illicit […]

Posted on 2 January 2020 and filed under links, outbound, social media

Anne Helen Petersen on paying taxes: “It helps restore busted habitats, and continues work on a project making it so that there’s a trailhead within ten minutes of everyone in the county — not just people who live in the more desirable areas. It’s regrading hills to make trails more accessible. It’s making civilization better, more […]

Posted on 2 January 2020 and filed under links, outbound, thoughts

Helena Fitzgerald: “The things that hurt me at the beginning of this century don’t hurt anymore, or at least they hurt in totally different ways. Perhaps the condition of the future is that it never feels like the future; perhaps in ten years nobody will listen to Maps, or make out in bars anymore, but […]

Posted on 2 January 2020 and filed under links, outbound

“‘All Star” but it’s a gentle piano ballad, ‘All Star’ but it’s spoken-word slam poetry, ‘All Star’ but it’s a TED Talk) and then the sorts of Dadaist musical experiments (‘All Star’ but every note is C, ‘All Star’ but every word with an ‘E’ is skipped, ‘All Star’ but the lyric ‘And they don’t […]

Posted on 9 May 2019 and filed under links, music, outbound

“It seems as if you are never ‘hard core’ enoughfor YouTube’s recommendation algorithm.”

Posted on 12 March 2018 and filed under links, media, social media

This is a detailed read of Facebook’s reckoning with foreign powers, powers of abuse and power over media and politics. In the end I’m left asking a question I saw posed elsewhere recently: is it ethical to use Facebook?

Posted on 12 February 2018 and filed under journalism, links, media, outbound, small, social media

Supriya Dwivedi on Justin Trudeau’s “Peoplekind” comment being taken out of context for controversy: “It’s one thing if outlets like Fox News are jumping on the prime minister and have no qualms over misrepresenting a situation in order to advance a false narrative of political correctness gone too far, or if someone like Piers Morgan […]

Posted on 8 February 2018 and filed under links, media, outbound, small

”To be clear, it’s not brave to quit Twitter, or righteous (I’m still on Facebook, which is just a differently shaped moral stockyard), or noteworthy. Quitting Twitter is just a thing that you can do. I mention it only because there was a time when I didn’t think it was a thing that I could do, and then I did it, and now my life is better.”

Posted on 6 February 2018 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Alex Hern: ”Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t use Facebook like you or me. The 33-year-old chief executive has a team of 12 moderators dedicated to deleting comments and spam from his page, according to Bloomberg. He has a ‘handful’ of employees who help him write his posts and speeches and a number of professional photographers who take […]

Posted on 5 February 2018 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Because so much of this week’s newsletter was focused on one topic, I broke it out into a separate blog post. If you like the idea of getting it all together together, you can subscribe here. Alright, that’s it except to tell you that while you’re into the podcast rabbithole, I’m actually going to be spending […]

Posted on 3 February 2018 and filed under letters, links, newsletter, small

“Forget those worries that the podcast bubble would burst the minute anyone actually got a closer look: It seems like podcast listeners really are the hyper-engaged, super-supportive audiences that everyone hoped.“ Hooray!

Posted on 2 February 2018 and filed under links, main, media, outbound, radio, small