Boygeniusā Friendship Trap
Weāre halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. Theyāre 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. Theyāre having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too.Ā P...
Like Dominoes ā Why Crypto Exchanges are Failing
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At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasnāt just downāit 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 hasnāt even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a babyās rattle w...
Ari Aster's Families On The Fritz
In Ari Asterās 2016 short film Cāest 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: āYou know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says itās when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.āĀ
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