— The Long Tail - Chris Anderson, WIRED, Oct. 1, 2004
“You can find everything out there on the Long Tail. There's the back catalog, older albums still fondly remembered by longtime fans or rediscovered by new ones. There are live tracks, B-sides, remixes, even (gasp) covers. There are niches by the thousands, genre within genre within genre: Imagine an entire Tower Records devoted to '80s hair bands or ambient dub. There are foreign bands, once priced out of reach in the Import aisle, and obscure bands on even more obscure labels, many of which don't have the distribution clout to get into Tower at all.”
— Tycoon, Contractor, Solder, Spy - Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, Dec. 2, 2009
“America and Erik Prince, it seems, have been slow to extract themselves from the assassination business. Beyond the killer drones flown with Blackwater’s help along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border (President Obama has reportedly authorized more than three dozen such hits), Prince claims he and a team of foreign nationals helped find and fix a target in October 2008, then left the finishing to others. “In Syria,” he says, “we did the signals intelligence to geo-locate the bad guys in a very denied area.” Subsequently, a U.S. Special Forces team launched a helicopter-borne assault to hunt down al-Qaeda middleman Abu Ghadiyah. Ghadiyah, whose real name is Badran Turki Hishan Al-Mazidih, was said to have been killed along with six others—though doubts have emerged about whether Ghadiyah was even there that day, as detailed in a recent Vanity Fair by Reese Ehrlich and Peter Coyote.”
— Eco-Fascism, Uncovered - Ruxandra Guidi, Sierra, Dec. 27, 2022
“As an ideology, eco-fascism has had a complex history. In their book, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right, Sam Moore and Alex Roberts make a case for keeping the definition simple: "Perhaps the main purpose of [this] book as a whole is to convert popular worry about 'ecofascism' into more clear-eyed opposition to the forms of racialized power that are wielded over and through the environment, be they 'fascist' or not." In other words, white dominance, exclusion, and hate have been foundational to the history of this country—and the American environmental movement, past and present, is not immune to these pathologies.”
— Southwest Airlines' Christmas Meltdown Shows How Corporations Deliberately Pit Consumers Against Low-Wage Workers - Adam Johnson, Dec. 27, 2022
“We are conditioned to get mad at the human face we see before us, the “representative” of the company who personally profits nothing from our purchase. We are conditioned to get mad at the waiter when our food is late (and penalize this “bad service” with a bad tip) when the vast majority of the time it’s due to understaffing by a cheapskate boss. We are conditioned to get upset with the enforcer of arbitrary rules at a hotel checkout, despite it not being their rule at all. We are conditioned to be hostile to the very people we should have the most solidarity with.”
Currently reading: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia - Rebecca West
Currently listening: Duality - Slipknot