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We Sent Ralph Nader Some of Our Favorite Pens. He Dismissed Them All.
Ralph Nader is loyal to one pen: the Papermate Flair. But Nader claims that the pens are drying out quicker then they used to. He reached out to Wirecutter (a NYT property) and they investigated.
Archive.is link: https://archive.is/54jtw [more inside]
The Case Against Reparations Through Art
You might call this kind of defiantly ahistorical setting the Magical Multiracial Past. The bones of the world are familiar. There is only one change: Every race exists, cheerfully and seemingly as equals, in the same place at the same time. History becomes an emoji, its flesh tone changing as needed. [more inside]
New York Times, Get out of My School
Politics this, plagiarism that. Harvard is in the limelight, which means that the student journalists of the Harvard Crimson have picked up some competition.
The holiday card I didn't know I needed.
NYTimes notices the Hallmark Christmas movie meme trend and analyses the movies. gift link [more inside]
The Brooks Burger Riot
On September 20th New York Times pundit David Brooks posted a tweet where he stated the high cost of his meal demonstrated why people had a low opinion of the economy. Unfortunately for Brooks, response was quick and vicious as viewers pointed out that the food portion of the meal was only $18, and that the majority of his bill was in his drink, in a real world example of the "someone who is good at the economy please help me" meme. [more inside]
Why is the NY Times seemingly so Anti-Trans?
Imara Jones and the Translash Podcast capture the story of a trans former NYT staffer. "Hunter" joined the New York Times and thought they found their journalistic home. This podcast, part of a series on the Anti-Trans Hate Machine series, captures how the paper of record seems to have made a deliberate choice to actively court right-wing voices, especially those who peddle disinformation about trans people, which came to a head in April.
A British Reporter Had a Big #MeToo Scoop. Her Editor Killed It.
Nick Cohen, a former columnist at The Guardian, was accused of sexual misconduct for years, but little happened. An investigation by The Financial Times was spiked, meaning the whole story has only just come out now (NYT, Archive.is). "The British news media is smaller and cozier than its American counterpart, with journalists often coming from the same elite schools. Stringent libel laws present another hurdle. And in a traditional newsroom culture of drinking and gender imbalances, many stories of misconduct go untold, or face a fight."
What went wrong at the New York Times?
The Case For Shunning
"I don't know about you, but I get shamed for the things I say all the time, from supremacists and bigots, from people whose criticism I desire and from whose company I hope to be shunned. I would be ashamed to hold beliefs they would approve of. They may mischaracterize me, but they understand me very well. And I crave their understanding. I want them to know exactly what I think of them. That’s what the shunning is for." A.R. Moxon writes a fiery response to Scott Adams' racism (previously) and the New York Times' hypocrisy over J.K. Rowling and trans rights.
The natural destination of poor editorial judgment is the court of law.
"We write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors with serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people." An open letter to the New York Times.
The US's Garlic King Dies
Don Christopher, a California farmer who turned the humble, much-maligned bulb of garlic into a staple in millions of American homes and elevated the sleepy town of Gilroy into the garlic capital of the world, died on Dec. 12 in Gilroy. He was 88. (archive.today link)
"Even in the rarified air of triathlon"
How the 1% Runs an Ironman (NYT gift link, archive.org) Inside the world of Ironman XC, which makes the endurance contest a little more endurable—for executives who can afford to pay.
MOTIF EDITS AWFUL; SLATE WANTS CHAOS (X/6)
Protests are different now.
Surely, this big protest wave [in 2003 against the Iraq War] — possibly the largest in history — would help stop the relentless march toward this ill-advised war. We all know how that went. I Was Wrong About Why Protests Work (NYT) [more inside]
Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief.
That concept might be the reason her trailblazing stand-up career has been overshadowed; it may also be the reason she’s still so sharp. (archive.today link)
How Ocean City cleared the gulls from its boardwalk
The Ancient Art of Falconry on the Jersey Shore (archive.org link) Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times
Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back.
A number of restaurants are betting that Americans want to get gussied up again, but not everyone is thrilled about the fashion screening. “There are rules and then there are rules,” she said. “You know when Tom Fontana comes here, he is a neighborhood regular, he wrote ‘Oz,’ he is a good friend of our house. Tom comes, he forgets a jacket, we will close one eye.”
All dogs go to heaven but no dogs go to the NYT obituary page
Cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz, a researcher and author specializing in dog cognition, offers up--not an obituary, but an elegy--to her research subject and beloved family member, Finnegan. [more inside]
“If You Can’t Trust a Swiss Banker, What’s the World Come to?”
If Everything Is ‘Trauma,’ Is Anything?
“I had someone tell me the other day that the checkout person at Trader Joe’s was ‘love bombing’ them..." (SLNYT) [more inside]
CBT, chronic pain, and ableism
The article reads as self-congratulatory, biased, and anti-opioid, going so far as to say that therapists are providing a “powerful salve for suffering” despite later admitting that most research only shows one-third of participants experience significant improvement. They removed the quotes they had from actual patients who received CBT and found it unhelpful or harmful. [more inside]
After 40 Years, Abba Takes a Chance With Its Legacy
How one of the biggest pop groups in the world secretly reunited to make a new album and a high-tech stage show featuring digital avatars of themselves — from 1979. Elisabeth Vincentelli writing in the NYT. [Archive link] We just discussed this album [with links to the previous two released songs], but it is now more imminent and we have another new song, Just A Notion.
Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans
Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans: For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are. Sam Anderson writes a NYT longread profile of the venerated multi-faceted performance artist. Archive link. [more inside]
Time for walkies
How Many Daily Steps Should You Take to Live Longer? Gretchen Reynolds for the NYT. Two studies suggest the sweet spot for longevity lies around 7,000 to 8,000 daily steps or about 30 to 45 minutes of exercise most days. [more inside]
I had a chance to travel anywhere. Why did I pick Spokane? (SLNYT)
Link to NYT article Having been to Spokane on more than one occasion, I couldn't resist clicking this link. Instead of a snarky takedown, I found a poignant reflection on Covid, parenthood, and what we are leaving our children. There's also a lot about baseball :). (Mirror link) [more inside]
Lorde's Third Album
First came the single Solar Power. Next came Stoned At The Nail Salon. Then the full album, Solar Power [43m, track time jumps in the description]. This NYT profile Lorde’s Work Here Is Done. Now, She Vibes. [Archive link] was pretty interesting. NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour discussion Lorde's 'Solar Power' Is A Whole Mood [23m listen, transcript plus audio link] was insightful about the album.
The music of the world's closing subway doors
"Ted Green has been collecting the sounds and sights of transit systems for more than a decade... the telltale chimes — beeps, ding-dongs, jingles and arpeggios that warn riders around the world to stand clear."
This SLNYT multimedia piece lets you hear Toronto's "calming downward arpeggio," Rio's "homage to bossa nova," and Paris' "sustained chime," while explaining the backstories behind these sounds that play background to so many urban lives.
a shift from irony to sincerity
How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso (NYT – non-paywalled link) – Two decades ago, TV’s most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of ironic detachment. Today, they’re more often sincere and direct. How did we get here?
Young, Gifted, and Black (and Gay)
The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom NYT Magazine cover story (long read) by Jazmine Hughes. "A peek into a hot boy summer filled with new highs, disappointment and growth." Archive link.
Francesco Lepore likes to challenge the status quo.
"On a recent afternoon, over a lunch of arancine and cannoli in a Palermo apartment that he shares with his partner, Michele Nicolosi — an abundantly tattooed Italian post office employee with a similar beard, identical outfit and warm sense of humor — Mr. Lepore described a saga worthy of Stendhal." A Latin Expert’s Odyssey, From the Vatican to the Gay Rights Movement - Jason Horowitz, NYT Rome bureau chief. Archive link.
The nadir of a lifetime of eating cereal
Cereal taster (and occasional New York Times columnist) Jamelle Bouie (previously) takes on Kellogg's Green Onion Chex from South Korea (previously). Spoiler alert: it did not go well for him.
From Doomsday Preppers to Doomsday Plotters
Far-right movements have long dreamed of a moment that ends society as we’ve known it. Now, experts say, so-called accelerationist thinking is proliferating in ways that could destabilize democracy. [more inside]
The Everyman of the Internet
“It’s my face and my expressions which make people laugh" [NYT, alternative links on archive.org and archive.is]: meet Khaby Lame, a Senegalese-Italian former factory worker who has become the fastest-growing content creator on TikTok (66.1M followers and counting... he’s also on Instagram, 18.M), profiled in The New York Times by Jason Horowitz and Taylor Lorenz (who also mentions a recent article in Vox about "the blandness of TikTok’s biggest stars" and how "Khaby Lame is the antithesis of that" as he is "wholly unaffiliated with the Hollywood industrial complex").
We’ve tried a beautiful experiment here; this is where the future lies
Paying the Danegeld
The Slander Industry [slNYT] Two NYT reporters investigate "the secret, symbiotic relationship between those facilitating slander and those getting paid to remove it" by having one of them submit himself to a reputation-wrecking website and seeing where else his face and name popped up, then going to the reputation-repair sites. A follow-up of sorts to this article (earlier on the blue). (Via boingboing).
This is not my beautiful house
Metareview Authorfilter
On Oct. 10, 1896, after years of robust literary coverage at The New York Times, the paper published the first issue of the Book Review.
In the 125 years since, that coverage has broadened and deepened. The Book Review has become a lens through which to view not just literature but the world at large, with scholars and thinkers weighing in on all of the people and issues and subjects covered in books on philosophy, art, science, economics, history and more. [more inside]
The Primal Scream
The pandemic exposed “balance” for the lie that it is. Now, a generation is teetering on the edge. A NYT package on motherhood, parenting during the pandemic, and everything it exposed. [more inside]
Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of
"Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandoms and online influencer culture — along with the near destruction of our ability to focus.
Most of this came to him in the mid-1980s..."
Audio recordings as a tool for making internet extremism real
An innovative op-ed by Stuart A. Thompson for The New York Times embeds audio clips of QAnon supporters from a Discord(-like?) chat service to make their views palpable: “Three Weeks Inside A Pro-Trump QAnon Chat Room”: There’s a persistent belief that the online world is somehow not real. Extreme views are too easily dismissed if they’re on the internet. While people might say things online they would never do in person, all it takes is one person for digital conspiracies to take a deadly turn… Listening to the conspiracists — unfiltered and in their own voices — makes that digital conversation disturbingly real.
How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted
"Mass quarantine has represented a final fulfillment of the pursuit of nothingness, particularly for the privileged classes who could adapt to it in such relative comfort" [NYT] For years, an aesthetic mode of nothingness has been ascendant — a literally nihilistic attitude visible in all realms of culture, one intent on the destruction of extraneity in all its forms, up to and including noise, decoration, possessions, identities and face-to-face interaction.
cooking outside the box
"For the past few years, there has been a cookbook on my shelf whose pages I keep returning to: “Cooking Outside the Box,” a slim volume of recipes by people incarcerated in Michigan state prisons... Reading recipes for dishes like Lynda’s Pizza Rolls and Cass’s Noodle Cookie, I kept hoping for head notes and back stories. Who figured out how to turn crushed Doritos and hot water into masa for tamales? I’ve rarely been as impressed as I’ve been by these portraits of ingenuity, born of the utmost constraints." Chef Samin Nosrat speaks to Ear Hustle host Earlonne Wood about prison cooking (nyt), and updates his recipe for chicken and rice (nyt). [more inside]
Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies
Sheehan broke the story of Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and won a Pultizer for a “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam." He died Jan. 7 at age 84.
With all the other news going on lately, you might have missed this.
The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire
Jamie Lauren Keiles interviews Brian Kelly, aka The Points Guy, on what has become of credit-card rewards and frequent flyer miles amid a global pandemic and delves into the wider history of credit cards and loyalty programs (NYT/Archive.is). "Today the business of selling points is more stable and more reliably profitable than the business of actually flying people places ... There have been transactions in the past where the loyalty program was acquired or sold at a total value exceeding that of the airline."
A cruciverbalist's blog
CrossBoss is a blog, launched July 2020, dedicated to the New York Times crossword puzzle. Its proprietor, Morgan Russell, solves every day's puzzle and then posts a review of it, including his personal solve time (4:56 for today's "easy" Monday puzzle); an assessment of its difficulty level ("relative to day of the week. An 8/10 Monday is still much easier than a 4/10 Saturday, unless otherwise specified.); an enjoyability rating; and occasionally, a link to a live-solve video on his YouTube channel. The review commentary in each post is the best part. It includes commentary on the quality of the puzzle's construction as well as comments on what he liked or learned about some of the answers.
The Fall of Caliphate
The New York Times has admitted serious editorial failings over its award-winning podcast series Caliphate and reassigned reporter Rukmini Callimachi. In September, the central character of the story, Shehroze Chaudhry, was charged by Canadian police with perpetrating a terrorist hoax, saying his account was entirely fabricated. With other shows in the broader true crime genre accused of plagiarism and sourcing, perhaps the podcasting gold rush requires extra scrutiny…
China 2098: First Time Abroad
Fan Wennan’s digital illustrations have caught fire on Chinese social media, depicting the world of 2098 where China is a high-tech superpower, with a humbled US that’s embraced communism; Wall Street is draped with hammer-and-sickle flags celebrating the “30th anniversary of the People’s Union of America”. The illustrations come amid China’s Communist Party claiming the pandemic has shown the superiority of its authoritarian model (NYT/Archive.is)
The Worst of Both Worlds
The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This (NYT). Erin Griffith on those who moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style, but now face tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt. [more inside]
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The Queen’s Gambit is a hit seven-part Netflix adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel, following the life of an orphan chess prodigy during her quest to become the world’s greatest chess player, set in the 50s and 60s. Created by Scott Frank (Out of Sight, Minority Report, Logan) and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, it has impeccable chess credentials with Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini as consultants, along with gorgeous costumes featured in a Brooklyn Museum online exhibition. agadmator breaks down the most important chess matches in the show (1, 2, 3); a chess expert on what the show gets right (NYT). [more inside]
Mine Safety Disclosures Presents
The (Not Failing) New York Times - "How The New York Times went from failing newspaper to thriving digital subscription business."