Silicon Valley’s propaganda machine
The Future is here. After announcing it was getting into the content game earlier this year, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, launched its Future blog this week to…
9 Books About Being Unemployed and Underemployed – Electric Literature
Elizabeth Gonzalez James, author of "Mona at Sea," recommends stories about struggling under capitalism. {read}
CDC director warns delta variant could soon become dominant coronavirus strain in US
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, said the delta variant “is far more contagious than any variant we have seen throughout this…
Inside The Production Of ‘City Of Ghosts’ With French Animation Studio TeamTO
How to describe City of Ghosts, a new series that leafs through the many layers of Los Angeles’s past? Its creator Elizabeth Ito has disavowed the word “mockumentary”: she didn’t…
Are You Part of a Cult? The Answer May Surprise You
Montell doesn’t examine cults through the voyeuristic or sensational lens often generated by The Vow, Wild, Wild Country, and other recent docuseries. Rather than participating in the spectacle from the…
What’s the future of the Metro Detroit commute?
"The past year made a lot of people have to think differently about how they work and what their daily routines look like, and also made a lot of people…
Ivan Kuckir and his project Photopea.
It all started as an experiment. I know Photoshop pretty well, and I wanted to find out if it’s possible to parse Photoshop (.psd) files in the website browser. I…
Midwest Modern’s Architectural Road Trip
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen Lipnik’s photography. With more than fifty thousand followers, his account, Midwest Modern, is a transportive road trip through architecture, design, and, often, time.…
The ‘Critical Race Theory’ Monster Hunt Is Beginning to Wreak Havoc on Local School Boards
Do they realize how crazy it really is out there these days? Do they realize how the tendrils of crazy now instantly connect with what they’re doing—or not doing—in Washington…
Dear Chicago, I love you so much – it’s killing us both
The following article was written by one of our followers, Tim Roby. After a handful of email exchanges and witnessing Tim being ignored from his alder, we invited him to…