Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
As Merry puts it, metrics and indicators require all kinds of political compromises and judgment calls to compress so much rich information into a single ranking. But the superficially simple nature of the final product—the metric—tends to conceal all kinds of subjectivity and politics
Jay Lloyd • The Limits of Data
... See moreEven as recently as the 1990s, most people interacted with only their relatives, co-workers, and friends each day, plus maybe their local news anchor on TV. Now, though, those same Paleolithic brains are being bombarded with the thoughts of hundreds of strangers every hour. Modern communication in all its forms has put us in contact with more minds
This idea that in today’s world, counterculture must embrace invisibility—that it must rest on a bedrock of withdrawal—appeared in every conversation that I had for this article. Biz Sherbert, culture writer and cohost of the podcast Nymphet Alumni, offers a moral angle. “If mass culture runs on conflict,” she says, “then the only real... See more
The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next
We are pantomiming our ideas and convictions rather than living them.
The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next
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