Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
We have generated billions of dollars for social media platforms through our desire—and then through a subsequent, escalating economic and cultural requirement—to replicate for the internet who we know, who we think we are, who we want to be.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The privilege to fuck around intertwines with the privilege to only accept labor that makes you feel good.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
She was cast as the understudy to the star, Laura Bell Bundy, in the off-Broadway musical Ruthless!
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
WOMEN ARE COMPLICIT
Rachel Rodgers • We Should All Be Millionaires
consuming the girl
Sandberg and those who followed in her wake became poster girls for a certain type of contemporary feminism, one that critics
Otegha Uwagba • We Need to Talk About Money: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Workers in the gig economy were disproportionately poor.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
The bad celebrity, once again, reinforces the idea of the good celebrity, a thing that doesn’t exist, because celebrities are not agents of morality, they’re reproducible images.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
The employer is busy trying to get more labor out of the worker, while the worker is trying to keep herself from being worked to death.