Shakespeare's King Lear Had a Happy Ending for 140 Years • Buttondown: Just a reminder that art has always been shaped by the society that consumes it.
ze ubermustache - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): You should be subscribing the Allison. And ignoring Nietzsche’
What Station Eleven and All the Light We Cannot See Reveal About Art and Loneliness - Reactor (reactormag.com): Really thoughtful piece.
A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It? | The New Yorker: This is disturbing on many levels.
Q&A: Screenwriter Carly Wray on the Fundamentals of TV (substack.com): Great look at the thinking of a top-notch writer. If you have any interest in TV, film, or the process of making art in late-stage capitalism, you should be subscribed to Cole Haddon.
Opinion | Wide Awakes marched for democracy in 1860 - The Washington Post: The woke have always defended American democracy.
An NHL goaltending ‘pandemic’: Is a hot trend handing the edge to shooters? - The Athletic (nytimes.com): Fascinating look at why scorers have, for now, the upper hand over goalies.
Instagram and Facebook face EU probe for child addiction and harm - The Verge: Facebook, as a product, has been unmitigated disaster and we should ban it.
Colleen Hoover Is a Best-selling BookTok Sensation. Will She Ever Write Again? (texasmonthly.com): I’ve never read anything of Hoover’s, but this is a fascinating look at how some writers live and die with parasocial relationships.
Court Rules Tacos Are Sandwiches... Scalia And Posner Had This Fight Years Ago - Above the Law: Funny headline aside, this is an interesting look at how contract law works and Originalism does not.
Final Exam for the Class “What a Presidential Candidate Can and Cannot Survive, Apparently” Taught by Howard Dean - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (mcsweeneys.net): Poor Howard Dean. And a reminder that the press routinely takes down anyone not acceptable to elite opinion. The difference in treatment between him and Trump should tell us a lot about where elite opinion actually lies.
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters: I’ve been held up at gunpoint two times in my life (well, three, but that’s a longer story). In no case did the cops solve the crime, and in one they didn’t even bother to come take a statement from me.
What Does Automating Feedback Mean for Learning? (substack.com): A summary doesn’t do this justice. Read for details on why AI is about to ruin your child’s education, but likely not for the reasons you may think.
The Evolution of Modern Dogs - by Brian Klaas (forkingpaths.co): Purebred is Dog for racist.
A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org): A look at the Great Disease theory of Roman history.
I Watched a Guy Eat a Barrel of Cheeseballs (substack.com): Cities are full of awesome weirdos not afraid to live out their dreams, and the people who cheer them on.
Cats playing with robots proves a winning combo in novel art installation | Ars Technica: “Unlike many digital interactions, the physical embodiment of the robot allowed the cats to 'disassemble' it by taking the toys from it”
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