🤦‍♂️ Correctile Dysfunction: the global crisis of men correcting women who know more than they do — Boing Boing

Ask your friends if you are patronizing or condescending to women or if you believe that your mediocrity is genius.

📺 streaming variability vol. 027

🎶 Christine and the Queens’ Restless Self-Inventions — The New Yorker

The reality of grief as a thing that shifts within us. It is sometimes a dormant tenant and sometimes an overbearing landlord. The ache is ever present. It decides when to come and collect. But it would only be foolish for us to push aside our hungers and yearnings in the hope of circumventing some potential future pain.

Color me intrigued. Never heard of Christine and the Queens prior to this and while the single is different than the stuff I normally listen to, I dig the dreamy nature of it. Album is out June 9th.

🦢 Swan Songs — Image Comics

All-new multi-artist project that explores the way things END…and also how they never really do.

New anthology series from W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man) featuring a new artist every issue, starting with Martin Simmonds (Dept. of Truth) on July 5th.

🪙 Look at what hedge funds really do — and tell me capitalism is about ‘rewarding risk’ — The Guardian

Business in general has been enormously skilled in recent times at offloading risk — principally by dumping it on those least able to bear it: ordinary households.

🔫 The Totally Unnecessary and Missing-the-Point ‘Barry’ Finale Power Rankings — The Ringer

What Barry as a whole makes clear is that Hader is a legitimately good actor but a potentially extraordinary director, and in this last season especially he’s been more visible, more present behind the camera than in front of it, if that makes sense.

A more positive look at the finale than the Episodic Medium link I posted last night. This one is more aligned with my thinking, but maybe too positive…

📺 Review: Barry 4:8, “wow” — Episodic Medium

I’ve written quite a bit about Barry, predicting it could potentially become my favorite show of all time, and while I don’t think S4 ended up achieving that, I still enjoyed it immensely.

🤡 Cracker Barrel Eva Braun celebrates Memorial Day — @jesseduquette

Thank you for your service.

What a dunce.

🇹🇷 What Erdogan’s win means for the West - and the world — Vox

His supporters see him see him reestablishing Turkish influence and power, a visionary leader in the Muslim world. His critics see him as an unreliable ally—somehow making Ankara more isolated as it tries to extend its influence everywhere.

While it was expected, it still feels like a tough break. It’ll be interesting to see if the Nation Alliance can hold up and keep their momentum until the next election in 2028. Or if Erdogan causes enough trouble on the global stage.

🏛️ The Democrats (mostly) won the debt ceiling fight — Semafor

The details are way outside anything I’d spend time reading, but it sounds like it’s actually a pretty solid bipartisan bill—avoids defaulting and pushes the next debate until after the election.

🚽 A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet) — Lithub

An ode to a sacred space.

📺 Review: Yellowjackets 2:9, “Storytelling” — Episodic Medium

When I started this review, I didn’t realize I was going to be quite so hard on this episode; it might be too extreme to call this a wet fart of a finale, given how entertained and occasionally moved I was while watching it. But the more I think about it in retrospect, the more disappointed I am, and the less sure I am about what the future holds for this show.

Capture my thoughts about the season finale and the season as a whole pretty well. While I still enjoyed it, it ultimately fell a little flat, especially considering how much I enjoyed season one and was looking forward to season two.

🍺 Seattle area among nation’s beer-snob capitals — The Seattle Times

Seattle’s beer-snobbery is a bit unfounded, in my opinion. There’s a pretty high floor of consistently good stuff, but I still clamor for beer from the Midwest, East Coast, and LA.

🏀 The Playoffs: A Dispatch — The Paris Review

We are millions of people watching the same moments, feeling elated, defeated, bored, anxious, sentimental, disappointed, and stunned, as we witness the inevitable play out in forty-eight-minute games over a two-month stretch, like we do every year.

Cool to see The Paris Review will be doing a series of dispatches throughout the Finals.

🇺🇦 Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective — The Economist

Still, attacking civilians is a sign of weakness… the Kremlin’s aim is probably to press the Ukrainian government to seek peace by weakening public morale and exhausting Western patience and support. If that is the intention, it is so far failing.

🎵 My Soft Machine — Arlo Parks

I was really looking forward to this album. While I think I prefer Arlo Parks’ debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, more, My Soft Machine is probably more consistent, top to bottom.

🪧 The End is Near — The New Yorker - Cartoon

With Succession and Barry both coming to an end and streamers cutting costs; it does feel a bit like a tv apocalypse is happening in front of our eyes 😝

📱 Boring Report app

An app that uses AI language models to remove sensationalism from the news while preserving essential information.

via: [SIC]

🪸 Lou Reed’s Nephew — Jim Hanas

An email serial about work, art, tech, and scrimshaw—starting June 20.

I honestly have no idea what this is going to be, but color me intrigued.

via: The Art of Noticing

🔥 Ron DeSantis Relaunches Presidential Campaign From Inside Burning Tesla —The Onion

I debated posting something last night, but am glad I held off as this feels much more appropriate for the moment.

📭 The Messenger Hasn’t Yet Disrupted Anything But Its Own Newsroom — Defector

Not surprised by this at all. I checked it out for five minutes when they launched and could tell it was a dump.