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On How To!: “Anger is like water. It will find a way to come out. If you don't carve a path that is helpful or healthy, it will find another path that is neither.” — Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her. slate.trib.al/zaiuKpV
In this episode of Death, Sex & Money Nick Offerman talks about playing an anti-gov extremist in his latest film Sovereign, the magic of teaching woodworking, and his less-than-perfect approach to making the world better. slate.trib.al/UwhwdqH
I used my review of The Chair Company to get at just what is going on with its deliberately flat, almost amateurish performances. Consider it my contribution to the burgeoning field of Tim Robinson Studies. slate.com/culture/2025...
had the great privilege of speaking with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification, how he came to coin the word on @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy, the myriad ways the concept has manifested throughout tech's modern history, and how he maintains hope that we may yet de-enshittify the commons:
Dear Care and Feeding, My parents divorced when I was 15. I am now 25, and my dad married a woman who is a year older than I am. I wasn’t thrilled that my dad married someone young enough to be his daughter, but that’s not the issue I have right now. slate.trib.al/EzkAppw
