- “It was the perfect community for a student like Jennifer. A social butterfly with an easy, high-pitched laugh, she mixed with guys, girls, Asians, Caucasians, jocks, nerds, people deep into the arts.”
- “It seems clear that Borland is seeking a role at the intersection of football and mental health, at least for the time being.”
- “But one thing about superladies’ appearance you can’t explain with regular cardio and superpowers is that their faces that look disturbingly alike.”
- “The video game industry is, on one hand, trying to show us how it has matured and how it isn’t just about boobs and marketing to a demographic of teenage boys, but Machine Zone, Inc. has invested $40 million into maintaining the stereotype.”
- “Trump is probably too dumb to realize it, or maybe he isn’t, but he doesn’t need to win anything to become the most dangerous person in America.” People laughed at Ronald Reagan’s candidacy, too.
- “By contrast, Springsteen embodied the lost ‘70s—the tense, political, working-class rejection of America’s limitations.”
- “Oh, but I am a motherfucking dragon and can handle any amount of fire I feel like handling.”
- “There seems to have been an unusual absence of scholarship, with no evidence of any lists of symbols or learning exercises for scribes to preserve the accuracy of the writing.”
- “On TV, you experienced him mainly as sharp angles, arched shoulders and pointed elbows, and a collection of features and accoutrements (suspenders, saucer glasses).”
- “And in doing so, we actually see her. She shows us her joy, her humor and, yes, her rage. She gives us the whole range of what it is to be human, and there are those who can’t bear it, who can’t tolerate the humanity of an ordinary extraordinary person.”
- “Ashley Madison is a site where tens of millions of men write mail, chat, and spend money for women who aren’t there.”
- “But then each day you are there doing the thing you love most, alone in your thoughts, you start to feel anxious. All the stuff you are able to distract yourself from thinking about in your regular busy life begins running laps in your brain.”
- “It is okay to destroy something that lots of people pay for and rely on to entertain themselves, and it is okay to release sensitive information about millions of people, but doxxing millionaires is ‘controversial.’“
- “Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn’t the way it’s done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle.”
- “The top-down, do what you want, radically express yourself and fuck everyone else worldview is precisely why Burning Man is so appealing to the Silicon Valley technocratic scions.”
- “Something’s come dreadfully loose in the country right now.”
- “I mean, Holy Mother of God, this country’s gone mad.”
- “Basically, somebody was going to have to make like Spock at the end of Wrath of Khan and walk into a melting-down nuclear reactor. That somebody would have to be, like Spock, both brave enough to face deadly radiation and smart enough to understand how a nuclear reactor works.”
- “This relationship relies upon gendered patterns of socialization, which leave women less-equipped to be assertive, along with cultural tropes that label women “crazy bitches” for speaking up and demanding credit or fair compensation for our original labor.”
Friday Links: Covid, Anger, Computers. And Decorative Gourds.
Three pieces about Covid, two about computers, and one about motherfucking gourds.
Oooooh, as a former resident of the Bay Area (who has never been to Burning Man), I will happily read everything and anything dissing it.
“Oh, but I am a motherfucking dragon and can handle any amount of fire I feel like handling. ” is my new motto for life.
I love love LOVE your weekly links roundups – so many great things that I otherwise would have missed. Thank you!
I haven’t put sriracha on PB yet but I make a mean spicy peanut stew.