i have no time or energy for these old forms of common foolishness.
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brandon sheats retweeted
people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...
Oh they're playing with 2008 levels of debt. These data centers are the same as Sun Belt and Florida homes. The adoption rates are juiced to unbelievable proportions, especially Microsoft and Meta shoving it into everything.
They're so broke they can't even tell you how broke.
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One of the main reasons why many clothing items are no longer popular is their impracticality for the lifestyles of students, office workers, and the working class. Mainstream fashion is no longer dictated by the upper class, but by runway fashion (which borrows from subcultures and history), filtered through pop culture, before evolving downstream into an affordable, corner-cutting, milquetoast version through fast fashion.
If a garment hinders work, taking public transport, driving, or carrying a bag, it will be relegated to the niche corners of fashion. Mainstream retailers do not want to stock underperforming designs, thereby limiting consumer choice.
As much as I love a good cape from an aesthetic perspective, I am biased toward clothing with sleeves. My work involves manual labour and carrying heavy loads on my shoulders, so I would rather wear a large, drapey coat that mimics the flow of a cape.
One of the greatest crimes of 20th-century fashion was the death of the cape.
For centuries, people looked at a cape and thought, "Hell yeah." Then modern fashion came along and decided everything had to be jackets, hoodies, and coats. Not even capelets survived the purge. And now if you wear one, people mock you for it.
God, I hate modern fashion.
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Brittle Paper is making a horror anthology! We want short stories, poetry, and nonfiction that will make readers’ skin crawl. Submit by May 31 for one of 15 spots available to writers from the continent and diaspora 🕸️🕷️🌘 brittlepaper.com/2026/05/sub…
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Instead of another round of "online media salary discourse" have you considered reading this incredible package of short essays......published in The Baffler
thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends…
Dude couldn’t even run an arts org with an outsize, congressionally backed budget. Good luck on the next failure.
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Let's just call autonomous pods and rideshares what they are - anti-social transit.
Designed to keep you in your own bubble, never experiencing the good mental friction that keeps critical thinking and social skills alive.
In ATL, it's giving the Monorail ep. of the Simpsons.
brandon sheats retweeted
harper's gets the best essays because they are basically the only surviving publication that pays writers a shit ton of money to do something absolutely insane
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(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase @washingtonpost's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive.
The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.
More in this week's issue of Regulator...
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. After nearly fifty years under wraps, the film conceived and filmed by the legendary William Greaves and restored/directed by David Greaves, spotlights footage from a 1972 gathering of luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Coming soon to theaters.
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Not every journalist can be their own brand, business, and distribution channel. Its unsustainable for journalists AND readers
We saw this with streaming. Fragmentation and subscription overload drove costs higher than the bundled systems they replaced
That could happen to news
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It’s not as simple as “everyone should just start a Substack.”
That’s a surface-level answer to a structural problem, and it ignores how media ecosystems, labor protections, and audiences actually work.
It’s a bandaid, not a serious solution.
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The Hazel Scott Show lasted three months because she was blacklisted after appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hazel was only 30 years old and a superstar at the time. She lived another 31 years, but her career never really recovered from being exiled.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announced today that, after nearly 40 years of visionary leadership, @wyntonmarsalis will transition from his current role at JALC.
nytimes.com/2026/01/29/arts/…
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i want people to understand that what you see on this website is not real life. dudes like this guy are far more representative of the median voter than people who keep spamming "yeah i voted for this" here and get 30k botted likes.
