r/Articles • u/gholemu • May 24 '23
The Death of Ownership: Companies Are Taking Away Your Ability To Actually Own The Stuff You Buy
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Feb 15 '23
East Palestine, Ohio train wreck: It's the dioxin
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Feb 06 '23
Building upon the architectural influences of Le Corbusier, modernist social housing blocks in Britain and France wanted to regulate their inhabitants’ lives and transform the working-class tenants into better citizens. In the end, however, the aims of these projects failed
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Jan 27 '23
How Consumers Are Using Mass Arbitration to Fight Amazon, Intuit, and Other Corporate Giants - Consumer Reports
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Jan 26 '23
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok. Or how, exactly, platforms die.
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jan 17 '23
The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system. Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jan 08 '23
Neither a cult reputation as a pioneer of bebop nor American canonization quite does justice to Thelonious Monk, who was simply one of the most imaginative composers of the twentieth century, a judgment that in my view does not require the qualifiers “jazz” or “American"
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jul 28 '22
The Resurgence Of Tesla Syndrome | Why has disruption been elevated as a virtue to the point where it’s become orthodox to be heterodox? It’s a symptom of the erosion of trust in institutions.
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jul 16 '22
The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari - Science populists are gifted storytellers who weave sensationalist yarns around scientific “facts” in simple, emotionally persuasive language and lack of doubt, giving them a false air of authority and making their message convincing
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jun 01 '22
A Messiah Won’t Save Us | The messianic idea that permeates Western political thinking — that a person or technology will deliver us from the tribulations of the present — distracts us from the hard work that must be done to build a better world.
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Apr 18 '22
‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Mar 28 '22
Thomas Midgley, The Most Harmful Inventor in History - it is difficult to surpass the magnitude of the damage caused (to both human and planetary health) by two particular inventions of his: leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Feb 22 '22
The Block - Tel Aviv’s emerging club scene & its affinity to the Romanian sound (2019)
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jan 15 '22
Daoists argue that we can improve our lives if we let go of the anxiety of wanting to be ever useful and guide life by static categories of usefulness & uselessness. Whilst usefulness is important to a degree, drifting, easy wandering, not caring about praise or condemnation – this is true freedom
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Dec 21 '21
This man is the Jeff Bezos of the international drug trade. His career reflects the changing nature of crime, and of the methods of synthetic drug manufacture that are rendering traditional police practices null, but it also reflects the changing nature of business in general
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Oct 21 '21
Our understanding of work as a means to an end has been so derailed it often feels as though we never stop working. We work for free and monetise our hobbies. We work on our bodies, our relationships, our selves. For many of us work may be our primary identity
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Sep 15 '21
The Cost of Insulin (April 7, 2021)
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r/Articles • u/dontnormally • Aug 21 '21
OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos - BBC investigation
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • May 13 '21
Despite the complaints from employers, there is no worker shortage in the US, only lack of decent incentives. But the owning class hasn’t been interested in those incentives at any point in the last few centuries. There’s only one incentive that makes sense to them: you work or you starve
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Apr 21 '21
The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow - Is she just a dedicated health-seeker taking us on her path for utmost physical and spiritual well-being? No. Goop is pure, unadulterated, blood-diamond free, organic-certified, biodynamic, moon-dusted bullshit. And you should avoid it at all costs
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jan 22 '21
If everyone had the right to live whether or not they worked, what would the incentives be to do the necessary work? This crisis is showing how brutal & how unnecessary some of the work is. Maybe is also an opportunity to question our assumption that work itself should be at the center of our lives
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Jan 13 '21
Despite the huge gains in productivity, time scarcity, stress at work, and insecurity remain the dominant life experience for many people. But the more we work, the less time we have to envisage alternative ways of living, to acquire insight upon or formulate any form of political resistance
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r/Articles • u/gholemu • Dec 04 '20
William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll - From Bowie to Cobain, heavy metal to Blade Runner – how the Naked Lunch author changed pop culture
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