Sublime

Our sustenance now comes from misery.

Tenants who fell behind either had to accept unpleasant, degrading, and sometimes dangerous housing conditions or be evicted. But from a business point of view, this arrangement could be lucrative. The four-family property that included Doreen’s and Lamar’s apartments was Sherrena’s most profitable. Her second-most profitable property was Arleen’s

In his movie Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock ate three fast food meals a day for one month.

Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows

In 2014, according to a former DOE official, a federal contractor in Los Alamos, having been told to pack the barrels with “inorganic kitty litter,” had scribbled down “an organic kitty litter.” The barrel with organic kitty litter in it had burst and spread waste inside the cavern. The site was closed for three years, significantly backing up

This “new contract,” alongside other missing forms of government protection, closes the margin for refusal and leads to a life lived in economic fear.

This gluttonous enterprise of ugliness, waste, and fraud thrives in the disastrous breach it has helped to make between our bodies and our souls.

Respect for your privacy isn’t a rebate you get for every $1,000 you spend on an iPhone. Companies abuse you if they can get away with it. That’s the crux of enshittification. Apple didn’t treat its customers well because it loved them. It treated them well to lure them into its walled garden, which was then revealed to be a prison.