How to Fall in Love After Divorce in the MeToo Era - Glamour
When her divorce coincided with the explosion of the #MeToo movement, the writer Lyz Lenz became determined to understand men.
Stored on: 2019-04-22 00:21
Claudia Rankine On Her New Play, The White Card
In terms of entertainment and art, there is the sense that the portrayal of this is valuable — and literally valuable. You can’t separate this commodity and supply-and-demand world that we are in. So when the artist goes there, they are going there because the public demands it. So then the question is, What is being bought, given, made, and sold? It’s a question that I’ve had for myself.
Stored on: 2019-04-16 21:04
Cory Doctorow’s ‘Radicalized’ reveals our dystopian technological future in four tales - Los Angeles Times
Fiction can make the detonation more visceral and immediate, and possibly spur us to action when the problems are still manageable rather than when they're so pernicious that they can't be denied, but also might be too far along to do anything about.
Stored on: 2019-04-11 21:32
The Assange indictment is thin gruel - The Washington Post
Journalists working for U.S. news outlets have a pretty clear understanding that they’d be stepping over the line if even they so much as suggested helping in the hacking of a government password
Stored on: 2019-04-11 19:48
Barcelona, Spain, urban planning: a city’s vision to dig out from cars - Vox
“I am a public professional. If I worked in a private job, perhaps I could be rich,” he says with a rueful smile. “But my richness, above all, is to see this.” He gestures to the papers in his lap, spilling into the seat beside him, full of plans, maps, and charts describing how finally to build, after a half-century of cities for cars, a city for people.
Stored on: 2019-04-09 20:52
To Keep a Sluttish House - The Millions
We like to see people lose control of their intimate, domestic spaces, whether that space is a home, a relationship, or a living body. But that’s not why we watch. We watch because we want collective reassurance that there is an established order to life that we all acknowledge and agree upon.
Stored on: 2019-04-07 18:50
Some lenders are judging you on much more than finances - Los Angeles Times
"Some banker is going to deny me a credit card because I chose to study Romance languages instead of Javascript?" he said. "That's not a world I want to help create."
Stored on: 2019-04-07 16:11
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Have a beautiful holiday season darlin.