Boygeniusâ Friendship Trap
Weâre halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. Theyâre rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. Theyâre having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
Like Dominoes â Why Crypto Exchanges are Failing
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At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasnât just downâit was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasnât even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a babyâs rattle w...
Ari Aster's Families On The Fritz
In Ari Asterâs 2016 short film Câest La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: âYou know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says itâs when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.âÂ
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