July 27, 2022
Mike Davis looks back
Sam Dean interviews Mike Davis for the LA Times , (and much more that didn't make it in to the published piece).
Amidst Women’s Rights Clash, Sam Bee Fights Back With Comedy, Truth, And
MSNBC's series Mavericks spends a half hour with Samantha Bee in Amidst Women’s Rights Clash, Sam Bee Fights Back With Comedy, Truth, And Late Night Breakthroughs. This is a great interview looking into Bee's career and growth across time, with a lot of introspection and insight. It was sadly recorded shortly before Full Frontal With Samantha Bee was cancelled after its seventh season [Variety].
Democrats Finalize Deal?
Manchin has agreed to a deal with party leadership that would spend over$400 billion, including $370 billion on climate. A corporate minimum tax of 15% would be established, more funding for the IRS to audit tax cheats, money is devoted to health care affordability, and Medicare can negotiate on prices. (Link goes to WP, here's the archive.org entry.) [more inside]
Visualizing The Impacts of Gun Violence
The NRA Children's Museum is a one mile long convoy of 52 school buses representing the lives of 4368 children that have been lost to gun violence. [more inside]
When it was working, it was a gift economy
Why is humanities scholarship struggling? Peer review in those fields is apparently slowing down and getting harder to accomplish. Maybe it's because of changing faculty attitudes. [more inside]
RIP Choco Taco (1983-2022)
The rumors flew for a few hours on Monday, all over social media. People claimed to have talked to people at the company. Screenshots of tweets and Facebook posts were shared. Then, it became official. Klondike (a brand of Good Humor-Breyers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever) announced that it is discontinuing the Choco Taco. [more inside]
Rolf Langebartels Internetproject Soundbag
Rolf Langebartels Internetproject Soundbag is an internet project by Berlin-based artist Rolf Langebartels. It's a "collection of items relating to Sound Art and Audio Art." [more inside]
$230,000 (and counting)
Matt Gaetz Body-Shamed a Teen — Who Then Launched a Fundraiser for Abortion Rights.
Olivia Julianna has raised over $230,000 for abortion funds. [more inside]
Activism works (sometimes): How Macon, Georgia defeated a polluter
Your problem will rarely be only local, so you are not alone in your battle. When this fight began I had no clue that the problem faced by Macon had national resonance. It turns out that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified pyrolysis as incineration under the Clean Air Act since the 1990s, even as industry tries to reclassify it as manufacturing and recycling. National players, such as Graham Hamilton, U.S. Policy Officer for Break Free From Plastic, joined our cause and helped build a grassroots national campaign to use the term “plastic incineration” instead of the industry spin of “recycling.” I was astonished to find that my friend Rebecca Altman, a writer and sociologist who lives in Rhode Island, knew about our Macon battle. The fight against pyrolysis for plastic waste was “a global fight,” she explained. Journalist Jill Neimark explains in Open Mind how she helped stop a plastics incinerator from opening in Macon, Georgia. [more inside]
VECNA: Heh. With twenty-six minutes, you could saunter up that hill!
No cars or roads and skinny
A tall and narrow stripe of a city more than 105 miles long, teeming with 9 million residents and running entirely on renewable energy - that's the vision Saudi Arabia's leaders have for The Line, part of a "giga-project" that will reshape the kingdom's northwest. [more inside]
Justin McElroy (not that Justin McElroy) visits Kitsault
It sounds made up.
In the wilderness of British Columbia, a two hour drive from any town with cell reception, sits a ghost town.
Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50 million in 1981, only to be shut down a year later.
...
Like I said, it sounds made up.
But Kitsault is real. You can visit.
So I did. [more inside]
In the wilderness of British Columbia, a two hour drive from any town with cell reception, sits a ghost town.
Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50 million in 1981, only to be shut down a year later.
...
Like I said, it sounds made up.
But Kitsault is real. You can visit.
So I did. [more inside]
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