A painting of me
  • The “privilege” discourse has stalled out without getting to: What makes a good life? 

    These people are life’s losers. Not because they have money or because they’re sending kids to private school. Lots of people with money know how to enjoy it. But because, by orienting themselves entirely around acquiring things they feel they should want, they seem to have rendered themselves terminally incapable of enjoying themselves. The most distinctive thing about them is that they seem actually incapable of having fun.

    An interesting article on the discourse around ‘rich people problems’.

    (via The always incredible Garbage Day) #
  • Romesh Ranganathan on the Griefcast. 

    My cousin passed along this podcast where a British comedian Cariad Lloyd interviews other comedians (mostly) about how they deal with death and grief in their lives. This episode features Romesh Ranganathan talking about his father. Interesting to me because I’m always interested in the lives of family Tamil people, but also because his dad sounds unlike any Tamil dad’s I know.

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  • The Case for Shunning 

    Is there nothing anybody would say that would cause you to cease your association with them? If so, then what you are is not a proponent of free speech, but lazy amorality.

    This article is very quotable, but i’ll go with that, because it feels like it gets to the heart of it. People like Scott Adams will immolate themselves, and then talk about the consequences of their actions in terms of free speech, all the while ignoring the actual attacks on free speech happening all around us.

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  • Extremely Hardcore. 

    A long read on the state of twitter 3 months after it’s purchase by Elon Musk. What a train wreck.

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  • Welcome to hell, Elon. Nilay Patel writes about Elon's purchase of Twitter. Imagine paying 44 billion dollars for that hell site. Disney bought Marvel and Star Wars for 4 billion each, and those things both print money. # [1]
  • Living While Black, in Japan. It speaks to just how dark things are in America that people will happily brush aside some of the casual ignorance that comes with living in such a homogeneous place. Everyone is so happy to be in Japan. They feel free in a way they never did in the US. Such an interesting little video. (via Kottke) #
  • Is Trump Actually Still in Control? It's funny to me that Trump is too dangerous to be on Twitter, but apparently not too dangerous to be the president of the United States of America. That guy has nuclear launch codes. #
  • Twitter, Facebook, etc, have finally removed Trump from their platform. This newsletter opens with a great discussion of this topic.
    I am tired of letting these companies try to convince us that their violent and racist users with hundreds of thousands of followers creating content shared millions of times are somehow not indicative of what these websites fundamentally are. Trump is a not unique outlier on Facebook and Twitter, he is Facebook and Twitter.
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