june 2022

downton abbey: a new era, roadrunner: a film about Anthony bourdain (2021), scanners (1981), seven years in tibet (1997), old (2021)

a book, a book, I've finished a book!
Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars - The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design  

Vox - The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real
Bon Appetit - We Need to Stop Talking About Tipping Fatigue
Axios - Abortions have been increasing since 2017, new data shows
CNN Business - How we got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way
Nature - The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world
Retail Brew - Smell that? Scents are a key part of a store’s identity, even in Covid
NPR - A California police department offered gas money for unwanted guns. It ran out
Independent - I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. What’s the problem?
The Guardian - It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same
HuffPost - Ashley Del Valle, Transgender Woman, Was Jailed As A Man After Allegedly Exposing Breasts
Yahoo News - The end of Korean BBQ in L.A.? What the gas stove ban means for your fave restaurants
Jalopnik - Naked Florida Couple Crashes into FedEx Truck While Doing Things We Can't Explicitly Describe in a Headline

The Guardian - Experience: my face became a meme
The Guardian - ‘The worst person you know’: the man who unwittingly became a meme

ProPublica - Why 18-Year-Olds in Texas Can Buy AR-15s but Not Handguns
Vanity Fair - A Disturbing Percentage of Republicans Think Mass Shootings are Just Something We Have to Accept

The Verge - File Not Found

may 2022

Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的), ben hur (1959), a sun (2019)

The Atlantic - What Alito Got Right
Culture Study - The Age of Houseplants

BBC - The animals that detect disasters
The Atlantic - How Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
Taste - The Tenacious Quest to Find the World’s Best Rice

BuzzFeed News - He Was 5'7". After Surgery, He’ll Be 5'10".
WaPo - Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library

NYT - Are You Successful? If So, You’ve Already Won the Lottery
NYT - In Sweden, an Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains

USA Today - A Reno man donated his kidney. He received a $13,064 bill in return

The Atlantic - Our Highways Are an Ever-Expanding Museum of America’s Wars

NYT - A Landlord ‘Underestimated’ His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

LA Times - Why do so many L.A. apartments come without fridges? Inside the chilling mystery

National Review - China Censors Its Own National Anthem as Lockdown-Enforcement Measure
CTV News - Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing

Calgary Herald - Canadian astronauts no longer free to rob and kill with abandon in space or on the moon
SF Gate - 'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt, popularized by San Francisco tech firms
San Fransisco Chronical - She sold her home for nearly half its $1 million value. The ‘pay it forward’ deal is a new tactic in the Bay Area’s housing crisis
FiveThirtyEight - Prisons, Water Infrastructure And Broadband: Where States Are Spending Their Pandemic Relief Funding

Vox - Gen Z does not dream of labor

Galaxy Brain - What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'

Atlas Obscura - The Surprising, Overlooked Artistry of Fruit Stickers

Fast Company - The delightful history of fruit stickers, the world’s tiniest canvases for graphic design

april 2022

j is now on the 4/10 schedule (10 hour shifts,4 days a week) and some night so I have more time to myself to read and do whatever. i have also found a trove of chinese (I think mostly taiwanese) movies on netflix which I intend to get thru.

the lobster (2015), everything everywhere all at once, Little Big Women (孤味) (2020) couple random netflix documentaries

Sapiens - Untangling Race From Hair
Slate - Stop Venting! It Doesn’t Work.
Harper's Bazaar - Mommies Who Mushroom
ESPN - The friendship that divides the NBA
The Atlantic - Community Input Is Bad, Actually
NYT - Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing
Racked - The Death of the Great American Sporting Goods Store
Fatherly - How to Make Better Joint Decisions With Your Partner
LA Times - As inflation soars, how is AriZona iced tea still 99 cents?
The Guardian - Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense
Quartz - How companies are hiding inflation without charging you more
The New Yorker - Joe Manchin Can’t Shoot Down the Logic of a Wealth Tax
Refinery29 - “I Don’t Deserve To Be Burned Out.” How Capitalism Complicates Rest
FiveThirtyEight - Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
FiveThirtyEight - Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.

Rewire News Group - When a Miscarriage Becomes a Jail Sentence

NYT - No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage
The Atlantic - The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late

march 2022

barely any reading this month. the "breakup," birthday, j's schedule moving to days, associated lifestyle changes have severely cut down on my free time. I have tho, been listening to a lot of podcasts, especially EconTalk, which, while very interesting, always manages to lull me sleep after about 20 minutes.  

fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald, hating peter tatchell

The Atlantic - The Package Is the Message
Undark - Why Birth Control Side Effects Have Eluded Science
Inc. - 70 Percent of Employees Are Saying 'No, Thanks' to a Promotion. Here's What They Want Instead

february 2022

incredibly little reading this month. we went away for an extended weekend, it was a shorth month, and i watched love is blind, season two.

tinder swindler, the power of the dog, feminists: what were they thinking (2018), i lost my body (2019)

BBC - Why the Dutch embrace floating homes
Wired - Online Shopping Is Reshaping Real-World Cities
Teen Vogue - Noncitizen Voting: New York Should Be an Example for Other States
Wired - In the 2008 Olympics, Beijing Felt Like an Open Door. In 2022, It's Closed
Teen Vogue - Is Slavery Still Legal in the U.S.? Yes, Under the 13th Amendment Exception
MSN - 5 Olympic skiers disqualified for baggy outfits: 'They destroyed women’s ski jumping'
USA Today - A priest incorrectly performed thousands of baptisms for decades – by changing one word
Daily Mail - £740,000 painting is ruined after 'bored' security guard draws eyes on faceless figures on his first day in the job at Russian gallery

January 2022

matrix resurrections, i am not your negro (2016), harry potter reunion, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), misha and the wolves, harry potter 3, harry potter 5, there's something in the water (2019), 9 to 5: the story of a movement (2020), harry potter 6, harry potter 7, reversing roe (2018), the rachel divide (2018), one of us (2017)

why so much harry potter? lol, j joe jas rewatched them all after watching the HBO reunion special which he said he didn't really care to watch anyway. I've watched a few with him, obviously.

less reading this month. have been very very busy at work so have spent a lot of nights either working or completely zoned out.

Following Data - How Much Americans Make
The Atlantic - Is Old Music Killing New Music?
The Atlantic - The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
BBC News - Kenyan vigilantes taking on avocado gangs
The Smithsonian - How the Potato Chip Took Over America
The Atlantic - We Live By a Unit of Time That Doesn’t Make Sense
Food Tank - Opinion | France’s Ban on Food Waste Three Years Later
Gallup - U.S. Charitable Donations Rebound; Volunteering Still Down
Popular Science - The ultimate guide to reusing and buying N95 masks
University of California - Spoiler alert: spoilers make you enjoy stories more
Food52 - Italians Avoided Pizza for Centuries—Tourism Changed Everything
The Guardian - Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay
CBS Sacramento - California College Students Will Be Offered $10K For Public Service
YouGov - More than half of Americans support a maximum age limit for elected officials
Toronto Star - Israel capped CEO pay for banking execs at $1 million. Its unique experiment could work here, too
Market Watch - Up to three-quarters of the $800 billion in disbursed PPP funds flowed to business owners instead of workers, study finds

Forbes - Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs
awesome!!! still hate that he attached his name to it tho. could've easily picked something less to do with his ego, more to do with his point