Can’t help but feel that a core part of the campaign to further immiserate the working class is to remove every single opportunity to interact with other members of society. Between the obliteration of third spaces to things like this, feels like they want to keep us all siloed in our homes, glued to screens.
It seems like we’re living through a uniquely dystopic moment where all that once was good is being uprooted and destroyed for no good reason beyond a tiny tiny minority expanding their wealth.
I can’t believe there are two competing college football pregame shows and one had Theo Von on today and the other had Druski. What are you even supposed to do if you’re an adult
The ongoing devaluation of film criticism feels especially bleak because it aligns with the fervent anti-intellectualism of the Trump era, a hostile attack on the very notion that expertise and long-honed knowledge should be prioritized in a landfill of slop.
The glee so many people take when mass journalist layoffs hit a site they’ve decided sucks because of a review they disagreed with once is so demoralizing. These “fan-forward” sites are all destined to become low-paying content mills designed to make baby-brained readers happy