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βI feel like such an old ass man when I read it but also genuinely informed. The reporting is very good and helps you get a real grasp of world political economy, unlike the usual clickbait garbage you see elsewhere. Shoutout to Alexandra Scaggs and Rana Foroohar
Jan 24, 2024
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π°I got a free subscription. I feel rich reading about rich people with good taste.
Mar 25, 2025
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πAll the options that I can think of off of the top of my head are more essay/article/research/commentary focused than just your plain 'ol traditional news, but I feel its better to get an in depth analysis of certain subjects, that comes from a honed point of view (as long as you are aware of what that point of view is), rather than just some superficial big corporate vanilla ass propaganda faux both-sidesism status quo approach, but I digress...
- Jacobin - Current Affairs mag - New Left Review - The Intercept - Lever News - Defector
Those are all great for learning about, but also analyzing, what is happening. If you want to just know what's happening, the BBC is at least well funded and diversely focused enough to cover the world, you just have to deal with constantly being pissed/annoyed/exasperated with the implicit biases of how they cover it. The economist and the financial times are also ironically quite good, because they assume that its just a bunch of rich freaks that read them, so they have no problem saying the quiet part out loud, so you get a great glimpse into the cold, calculated, cruel, and depraved machinations of the owning class.
Oh, and the podcast "citations needed" does a lot of news briefs that are short yet incisive and informative.
- Jacobin - Current Affairs mag - New Left Review - The Intercept - Lever News - Defector
Those are all great for learning about, but also analyzing, what is happening. If you want to just know what's happening, the BBC is at least well funded and diversely focused enough to cover the world, you just have to deal with constantly being pissed/annoyed/exasperated with the implicit biases of how they cover it. The economist and the financial times are also ironically quite good, because they assume that its just a bunch of rich freaks that read them, so they have no problem saying the quiet part out loud, so you get a great glimpse into the cold, calculated, cruel, and depraved machinations of the owning class.
Oh, and the podcast "citations needed" does a lot of news briefs that are short yet incisive and informative.
Jul 9, 2025
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Smells Like Teen Spirit exploded freshman year. The grunge wave got east soon after that. On the other end of the parking lot Wu Tang was played again and again as Biggie and Tupac battled. And the skaters were shifting from punk rock to this new vibe they heard at warehouse raves as techno was escaping from the lab in Dallas and NYC.
The movie Kids catches this time really well. Words donβt quite do it justice.
Smells Like Teen Spirit exploded freshman year. The grunge wave got east soon after that. On the other end of the parking lot Wu Tang was played again and again as Biggie and Tupac battled. And the skaters were shifting from punk rock to this new vibe they heard at warehouse raves as techno was escaping from the lab in Dallas and NYC.
The movie Kids catches this time really well. Words donβt quite do it justice.