New pod: How the logic of cults is taking over modern life

- how abundant media smashed culture into a bunch of highly competitive 'cult' groups
- why modern fandom is so ferocious
- why the news ecosystem is becoming a federation of warring city-states

open.spotify.com/episode/5Ub7UF…

On long flights or when he was bored, he would take Shakespeare’s speeches and try to improve them. He gave an example of a line he’d adjusted from King Lear. “Isn’t it plainly much better?” Borges asked. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Let the debunking begin. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024…

'How Texas’ online porn law could shatter a First Amendment precedent' Casey Newton platformer.news/scotus-texas-i…

Photojournalism by the young Stanley Kubrick.

'It’s only words, unless they’re true.' – David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow (ht Dwight Garner)

'The social call of each newspaper is to provide a home for a huge number of salaried eccentrics.' --Press mogul Roy Thomson

This must be the first generation of revolutionaries to demand safe spaces for overthrowing the existing power structure

Jack Shafer 'As the Phoenix studio had no echo chamber, Hazlewood bought a 2,000-gallon (7570-litre) water storage tank that he used as an echo chamber to accentuate the 'twangy' guitar sound.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Eddy

Werner Herzog on Barbie. youtube.com/watch?v=jEOmTQ…

'Several staffers fear the electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens, complicating a volunteer potluck.' wsj.com/politics/elect…

The Trump Nap Watch David A. Graham theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Justin Miller on Joanna Coles taking over the Daily Beast. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Duane Eddy, RIP youtube.com/watch?v=bu0gsR…

He testifies that a text exchange he had with National Enquirer EIC Dylan Howard on election night of 2016 reflected their shock that Trump had won.

Davidson: 'What have we done?”
Howard: “Oh my god.”

For Laura Loomer, a Trump comeback is everything from ⁦Kara Voght⁩ washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…

'Administrators have spent much of recent past recruiting social-justice-minded students & faculty to their campuses under implicit...promise that activism is not just welcome but encouraged. Now leaders of those universities are shocked to find their charges & employees believed…

The Atlantic is hiring all of the writers. theatlantic.com/press-releases…

'Ex-Washington Post Media Reporter Wins Battle Against Paper After Being Suspended For Critical Tweet' mediaite.com/media/ex-washi…

Jack Shafer Wait. Was it because of the hogweed?