The Independent Variable
🍪 Links Ahoy //02082020//
2 August 2020
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Monday
- 📰 Netflix is (almost) doing the right thing //170720// om.co
- 📰 The Future of Fitness: lululemon Buys Mirror //// feedbin.com
- 📹 One X-Cellent Scene - It’s Time For X-Men to Evolve - YouTube //// www.youtube.com
- 📹 Espresso Tonic - From Scratch - YouTube //// www.youtube.com
- 📰 Obama Passes Cognitive Test by Reciting the First Fifty Digits of Pi by Andy Borowitz //250720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 Our Towns: Will Craft Brewing Survive? by James Fallows //280720// www.theatlantic.com
- 📰 Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment by Margaret Talbot //260720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen Give Republicans in Congress a Lesson on Coronavirus Economics by John Cassidy //180720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 Who is Kanye’s Running Mate? by Charles Bethea //270720// www.newyorker.com
Tuesday
- 📰 Another Good Story for the Enough-About-Politics-and-Trump’s-Clear-Mental-Derangement-Let’s-Stick-to-Sports Readers Out There //// daringfireball.net
- 🎙 Why $600 Checks Are Tearing Republicans Apart — The Daily — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Why your favorite writers are taking their talents to Substack. Plus: Peacock! — Recode Media — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Spiritual Warriors | 1 — Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 📰 The G.O.P.’s Latest Coronavirus Stimulus Doesn’t Take Into Account Trump’s Blundering by John Cassidy //280720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 A Floating MAGA Rally Washes Up in New York Harbor by Erik Baard //270720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 Daily Harvest, a Trendy Jolly Green Giant for the Direct-to-Consumer Era by Sheila Marikar //270720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 With a reading list ranging from W. E. B. Du Bois to Kendrick Lamar, a remote class teaches Philadelphia teens how to express their frustration with society—including, in some cases, their schools. by Tyler Foggatt //270720// www.newyorker.com
Wednesday
- 🎙 Money to burn; why Wall Street loves NFLX — Land of the Giants — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Confronting China — The Daily — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 📰 What Vermont and Its History Might Teach the Nation About Handling the Coronavirus by Bill McKibben //280720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 Robin Rendle ・ A website is an essay by Robin Rendle //// robinrendle.com
- 📰 Is the Postal Service Being Manipulated to Help Trump Get Reëlected? by Steve Coll //290720// www.newyorker.com
- 📰 Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State by Masha Gessen //290720// www.newyorker.com
Thursday
- 🎙 Waxahatchee - Fire — Song Exploder — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 #165 The Mold and The Beautiful — Reply All — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 📰 Federalist Society Co-Founder Steven Calabresi: ‘Tweet Is Fascistic and Is Itself Grounds for the President’s Immediate Impeachment’ //// daringfireball.net
Friday
- 🎙 The Big Tech Hearing — The Daily — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 📹 The NBA Is Officially Back!!! | NBA Desktop | The Ringer - YouTube //// www.youtube.com
- 📰 Bonus Daily Cartoon: The Spreaders by Condé Nast //310720// www.newyorker.com
- 🎙 Sports are back! But for how long? — Recode Media — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 A #MeToo Moment in the Military — The Daily — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Give Us More Lakers-Clippers, Free Zion, and the Seeding Race | The Mismatch — The Ringer NBA Show — Overcast //// overcast.fm
Saturday
- 🎙 1. In the Beginning There Was Fansubs — Anime in America — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 The Confession | 6 — Murder in Hollywoodland — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Mortification and Civilization — The Anthropocene Reviewed — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Rachel Nichols and Howard Beck — The Lowe Post — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism — The New Yorker Radio Hour — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 #99 | McElroys, Mysteries and Me — Twenty Thousand Hertz — Overcast //// overcast.fm
- 🎙 S4 Ep. 5: The Road to Hell — Slow Burn — Overcast //// overcast.fm