Comments closedThe CBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network.
Weiss, 41, has no experience working in broadcast television, though she has carved out a reputation as a heterodox opinion writer and burgeoning media operator.
Known for her attacks on liberal institutions and “cancel culture”, Weiss founded the Free Press with her partner Nellie Bowles in 2021 after she left the New York Times as a columnist, claiming that she was heavily scrutinized for her conservative views and criticism of the left at the paper.
Category: marks
- First review I’ve seen of the new Thomas Pynchon novel
- Too Tired To Say Anything: Trick Work (podcast)
- AD ASTRA (2019) (rewatch, partial)
- Bloomberg Daybreak Europe: US Shutdown Begins As Stocks Drop & Gold Rallies On Funding Standoff
- (i have a terrible habit of listening to podcasts with one earbud while playing music in the office)
- Arrived: Vivolife Thrive raw cacao protein powder
- 12 Booker Prize 2025 nominees share their writing spots
- Odd Lots: Tarek Mansour on Kalshi’s Plan to Create Markets in Everything (prediction matkets)
- Sibelius’ Karelia Suite Intermezzo 1:
UNCLASSIFIED: Edinburgh Festival Highlights
Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. Tonight she plays highlights from some of Unclassifield’s favourite artists’ live concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Today’s jacket was the Yarmouth Oilskins sailcloth Engineer chore jacket.
Comments closed- seems that new public toilets in China make you watch ads in order to get toilet paper
- The Economist would like you to be more worried about North Korea
- How the rich and powerful plan to live forever (I am life extension curious, as anyone whose entire family dies before 65 would be)
Late Junction: Railway Junction
It’s “All aboard!” as Verity Sharp presents an eclectic selection of sonic odes to rail travel, 200 years on from the first ever passenger railway journey in the UK. Expect an archival adieu to the steam locomotives from Carnforth, Lancashire, echoes of a station piano recorded during a transit interlude, and a ticket inspector’s nod to the quiet solitude of the trans-European night train cabin in the form of contemporary field recordings.
A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50
Late Junction: radiophonic lullabies and distorted dreams
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents your weekly dose of adventurous explorations in sound. There’ll be distorted cello sounds from Seattle, composed by Nirvana’s cello player Lori Goldston, who hopes to give her listeners room to breathe and dream. Leo Chadburn also brings a dream-like labyrinthine recollection of misty quarries, disused railway lines, and shadowy monumental factory buildings, via closed-mic spoken word, vibraphone, wine glasses and drones. Plus a sonic dedication to “Radium Girls”, female factory workers exposed to radioactive luminous paint, courtesy of Phew, Dieter Moebius and Erika Kobayashi, composed in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011.
What Roland Allen, author of the excellent THE NOTEBOOK, uses.
Comments closed- Geoff Manaugh on Allen Ginsberg – 1 – 2
- Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months
- Jan: Open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline
- “Could Tony Blair run Gaza” is not something I had on my bingo card for 2025
- TOO TIRED TO SAY ANYTHING: First Turning (music podcast)
- New Music Show: Strange Loops
We always stop for Julianna Barwick.
Comments closed“While content proliferates, engagement is evaporating. Average interaction rates across major platforms are declining fast: Facebook and X posts now scrape an average 0.15% engagement, while Instagram has dropped 24% year-on-year. Even TikTok has begun to plateau. People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.”
September 17, 2025 at 04:39PM
Comments closed“The smell of something worse than death”: I tried the Internet’s most divisive cologne
““This fragrance has severely degraded my life and it will take a few weeks to recover,” writes fragrance reviewer @aksf789 of Amouage’s Opus XIII Silver Oud. “Certainly the worst fragrance I have ever smelled and likely the worst smell in general I have ever experienced. The perfumer belongs in federal prison for life after creating this atrocity to the human race. This is the smell of something worse than death.”
September 16, 2025 at 11:38PM
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