Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement

I fell into a van tour youtube hole at some point, so…

Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With De...

Mirror Wanted to Be the Next iPhone. Instead, It’s S...

it's the convergence of two screwed up industries, tech and wellness, because of course

idk if anyone else is following the clubhouse vs nyt drama

omg I love van tour youtube

I wanted to find ones with cats but then I realized… I just wanted youtubes of cats and the van was not important

but as we know, youtube creates a hole

No Offense

this is old, I found it through a stray reddit link, but I think I like "outrage machine" better than "cancel culture" b/c I really think the problem isn't with culture but with the architecture of the internet, the impulse toward virality

I should probably read Trick Mirror

my 19yo coworker does robinhood and i keep trying to be like this is concerning!!! but he does not listen to me

some of the charts in there are very yikes

but my investing is like… ah, a vanguard index fund.

The Robinhood thing is terrifying

I know just enough about investing to know that until I'm willing to pay a pro I need to stick with a basic mix of index funds

And I worked in that kind of finance for a year and have been around it my entire career

yeah, I mean I'm confident in my index fund strategy, trading stocks to make a profit is, imo, fake

The only people who can reliably do that are the people who are pros

The only way I would ever own an individual stock would be to buy into a blue chip (or an extremely cheap IPO) with the intention of holding it for not less than 5 years

the part about installing bulletproof glass at their offices, whoa

Oh I believe it.

Inside the rise of MLB's Ivy League culture: Stunnin...

"The one thing that does not change between the old front-office and the new front-office makeup is that people will hire their friends or people who remind them of them," said one minority baseball staffer who has worked in the sport for more than a decade. "People will hire people like them."

I'm a p SABRmetrically literate baseball fan as far as these things go but I've contemplated for a while that the turn to fancy stats

(which goes hand in hand with the media machine surrounding fantasy sports)

has sort of caused fans to identify with the gms/management of their teams rather than the players… which I'm not sure is a good thing.

Is evangelical support for Trump a contradiction?

mostly I want to read this book now

it sounds fascinating, esp as it ties into post wwii anti-communist masculinity like damn

DHS Agents Seen in Portland Are Deploying to Chicago...

don't like it!!

not great!!

ftr I don't live downtown and have no reason to go there during the evening during lockdown

so I've never seen these troops personally but it seems very bad to me

as a chicago-adjacent human, I dislike

as a person valuing correct use of govt resources, i also dislik

nooo are they really

I knew the fucking friends of police~ asked but they are not a legitimate governent association

yep they are

lightfoot has said she doesn't want them here so

supposedly they are for gang and drug stuff but listen y'all when fucking Michael Chertoff is saying "this is not what DHS is for" y'all lost the fucking plot

there's no reason

'gangs and drug stuff' has always been an excuse

agreed on both counts

except that the reason is that we're a v blue city in a Presidentially blue state

(i am not gonna get into "illinois is not actually a blue state it's just Chicago is goddamn loud and it's a good thing")

....also probably related to our governor having his shit together (surprisingly so) and having gotten pretty good control (relatively) over c19 by doing all the shit that President Tantrum says doesn't work

that's true of basically all blue states

except maybe… vermont?

yeah

well. Massachusetts maybe?

I know they theoretically elect Republican governors but

there's republicans and then there's Massachusetts republicans

yeah, maybe. still bet Boston is the most blue part of the state.

totally fair

another chilling elecotral map is this one:

WISCONSIN??

I imagine Wisconsin is the same as Oregon which is to say, overwhelmingly white, so whenever they vote blue it's still white people carrying the vote

though this was also apparently based on 2016 polling, so… yes

in fact it's worse than this

I have just met a lot of mean spiteful white people in wisconsin

michigan would make more sense to me

but as we know both of these states voted r in 2016

same with iowa

gonna go ahead and blame the white people who live there for that

WI has the OH problem of "we want union jobs back while we're union busting"

How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture

h/t hadal ; I think the differentiation between social and economic radicalism is pretty useful

oh awesome, i'm looking forward to reading that one.

just a note on the author of that article The Atlantic Has a Transphobia Problem

my immediate lip curl at helen lewis

WELL THEN

thanks for the info that's uh. side-eye

she's a katie herzog type

thanks for the heads up, uk friend

pogonophile: so much curled lip

yeah sadly practically any british feminst journalist is worth googling terf plus their name.

it's a plague over here rn

this article isn't about trans people or cancel culture except as it forces companies to try to seem woke, which I think is still fair, but I didn't know she was a TERF

yeah… I should have been tipped off by that… yeesh.

and she has absolutely spoken about cancel culture as pertains to her not being able to misgender people on twitter - not that she's not capable of making valid points here, just also some shitty ones elsewhere.

I am sure that colors her idea on "cancel culture" writ large, although honestly I suspect the Atlantic just used those words to draw clicks

in the headline, I mean

anyway it is really a shame about TERFS overtaking UK feminism

It's fucking exhausting