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Break Your Streak, Not the Strike
After two and a half years of negotiations, The New York Times Tech Guild has gone on strike (NYT Gift Link). "The guild said it was asking readers to honor its digital picket line by not playing Times Games products, such as Wordle, and not using the Cooking app." "Nearly 750 New York Times journalists and Times Guild members signed a new pledge pressing the Times’s management to bargain and reach a contract deal with the Times Tech Guild by Election Day." More coverage: The Verge, The Washington Post, NBC News.
"There is another way: social housing."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Tina Smith (D-MN): Our Solution to the Housing Crisis (NYT gift, archive.is)
“Get it done, and you will deserve the Nobel Prize!”
"They like to feel like they're in a place where books matter"
Why Can’t Anyone in My Family Manage to Change the Dang Toilet Paper
NYT: Wirecutter takes on the perennial question "Frankly, some people are just monsters. And those monsters are our loved ones." [more inside]
A new unity like a bundle of sticks
Horny for fascism - on the medias quest to put the best possible spin on Trump and MAGA.
The Art of Translation
See how a translator carries a book from one language to another, line by line. Much like a crossword, a translation isn’t finished until all the answers are present and correct, with each conditioning the others. But when it comes to literature, there is rarely ever just one solution, and my job is to test as many as possible. A word can be a perfect fit until something I try in the next clause introduces a clumsy repetition or infelicitous echo. Meaning, connotation and subtext all matter, but so does style. Below are two attempts to show the thought processes involved in the kind of translation I do.
Sophie Hughes for the New York Times.
“He was encouraging me to take a stand.”
His Book Was Repeatedly Banned. Fighting For It Shaped His Life. (Robert Cormier and The Chocolate War, NYT gift)
The Case Against Reparations Through Art
You might call this kind of defiantly ahistorical setting the Magical Multiracial Past. The bones of the world are familiar. There is only one change: Every race exists, cheerfully and seemingly as equals, in the same place at the same time. History becomes an emoji, its flesh tone changing as needed. [more inside]
Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation
Most columnists are mediocre. This is not their fault. Almost no one on earth is capable of having two good ideas per week... [more inside]
"High school isn't a very important place."
For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King's debut novel Carrie (original review), the New York Times Book Review offers: an appreciation by Margaret Atwood; an essay by Amanda Jayatissa; a collection of reflections from various luminaries; a King reading guide; and a podcast with Grady Hendrix and Damon Lindelof about King's works and influence (NYT gift links throughout).
Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies at 78
NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones
New York Times, Get out of My School
Politics this, plagiarism that. Harvard is in the limelight, which means that the student journalists of the Harvard Crimson have picked up some competition.
It’s all arbitrary and dumb, but they’re addicted
These games are critical to the Times’ business strategy in trying to reach users—and ideally, future paying subscribers—beyond its core news product. Of course, the Times is still competing for White House scoops with its traditional print and digital rivals and dispatching correspondents to war zones. But the company is also vying for people’s attention against every app on their home screen. So it’s developed products in recent years to satisfy the lifestyle needs of its audience: cooking, shopping (via what is now known as Wirecutter, acquired in a 2016 deal worth more than $30 million), sports (via The Athletic, the site it acquired in 2022 for $550 million), and audio, building on the success of The Daily with a slew of podcasts ... The products and the journalism coexist under what the Times calls “the bundle,” an offering that has turbocharged the company’s ambitious growth strategy. from Inside The New York Times’ Big Bet on Games [Vanity Fair; ungated]
No hookups; yes Jubensha
Equal parts Murder Mystery Party, Escape Room, and Parlour LARP, Jubensha are the Chinese gaming experiences that you've probably never heard of. (NYT) [more inside]
"The Times hereby demands a jury trial for all claims so triable"
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. [so many previouslies]
"Ted Cruz without the personality"
Goodbye, ADIEU
“What a pity that we cannot do the right thing.”
A murky engine of influence
The list is as much a cultural signifier as it is an accurate index of what the public is reading. The tagline makes it easier for readers to find a book within today’s info glut and makes it easier for an author to convince a publisher to let them write another one ... “It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy,” she says. “It has a cumulative, rich-get-richer effect, if you’ve managed it successfully.” Sales come and go, but a NYT bestseller bio line is forever. from The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list
"This is the end of Jezebel and that feels really, really bad."
Jezebel, the pioneering feminist website (previously, plus another 300-plus posts), will be shut down (NYT gift). [more inside]
Stand Up Strike
UAW Extends Walkout (NYT gift link, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press) At noon today, UAW members will walk out at 38 GM and Stellantis parts distribution centers.
NANA NAAN NOON
Getting to Genius, Part I (NYT gift link, here's Part II) On improving one's skills in Spelling Bee, the New York Times daily word puzzle. [more inside]
Why is the NY Times seemingly so Anti-Trans?
Imara Jones and the Translash Podcast capture the story of a trans former NYT staffer. "Hunter" joined the New York Times and thought they found their journalistic home. This podcast, part of a series on the Anti-Trans Hate Machine series, captures how the paper of record seems to have made a deliberate choice to actively court right-wing voices, especially those who peddle disinformation about trans people, which came to a head in April.
Grudge Match
The pitch here is simple: a bunch of grumpy old magicians made a big fuss about sexy little Uri Geller just because he claimed his party trick was real psychic powers, and now they’re either dead or friends with him, and isn’t that great? Because really, even if he DIDN’T have psychic powers, what’s the harm in helping people believe that there’s a little magic in the world? from Uri Geller is Still a Giant Fraud, Despite the Glowing NY Times Profile by Skepchick, who, along with the CFI, Greg Mayer, DJ Grothe and Mark Evanier (among others) are raking the NYT for its recent "lengthy – and progressively more maddening – hagiography of Uri Geller." [New York Times; ungated] [more inside]
"The works chosen below are proof of queer folks' endurance."
The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature (NYT gift) Writers Roxane Gay, James Ijames, Lisa Kron, Thomas Page McBee, Neel Mukherjee, and Edmund White created the list.
"Women, millennials, and “dudes with beards and tattoos.” W, M, D."
Millennials just keep voting (NYT gift). But will they move to the right (NYT gift)? Maybe (WaPo gift), maybe not (New York).
He dreamed of falling from the sky
He Bombed the Nazis. 75 Years Later, the Nightmares Began Trauma works in mysterious ways: "Like most of his generation, John Wenzel returned from World War II with no interest in sharing memories. Just shy of his 100th birthday, he found he could no longer ignore the past."
25 or 6 Times 4
The Case For Shunning
"I don't know about you, but I get shamed for the things I say all the time, from supremacists and bigots, from people whose criticism I desire and from whose company I hope to be shunned. I would be ashamed to hold beliefs they would approve of. They may mischaracterize me, but they understand me very well. And I crave their understanding. I want them to know exactly what I think of them. That’s what the shunning is for." A.R. Moxon writes a fiery response to Scott Adams' racism (previously) and the New York Times' hypocrisy over J.K. Rowling and trans rights.
He's Down With This Until He's Across
I like puzzles of all sorts. People who like crosswords like to have their knowledge and vocabulary tested, and people who like Sudoku like the purity of the logic challenge. And my experience is that they’re two vastly different groups of people. I’m one of the rarities who loves both. Will Shortz’s Life in Crosswords [The New Yorker; ungated] [more inside]
The natural destination of poor editorial judgment is the court of law.
"We write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors with serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people." An open letter to the New York Times.
“I’ve been scammed more than once.”
On Trump's Truth Social: Ads for Miracle Cures, Scams, and Fake Merchandise (slNYT gift, Internet Archive, previously)
Faces, Places
The 2022 NYT face quiz is here! Can you recognize these 52 famous faces?
"Even in the rarified air of triathlon"
How the 1% Runs an Ironman (NYT gift link, archive.org) Inside the world of Ironman XC, which makes the endurance contest a little more endurable—for executives who can afford to pay.
Maybe skip reading the NY Times today
The sweetest man there has ever been and will ever be
Noodle, the pug who made "no bones day" a thing, has passed at 14-1/2 years old, after a spell of TikTok stardom that raised him to the level of New York Times obituaryworthiness. (archive.today link)
"Index, a History of the," or "Everything I Need I Get From You"
"I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true."
The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene (NYT gift link, archive.org) What the rise of the far-right Congresswoman means for the House, the GOP, and the nation. Adapted from Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost its Mind, out today.
“[A] brief drama that was also a metaphor… But… a metaphor for what?”
Sarah Viren, who has previously written in the New York Times about an academic falsely claiming Cherokee ancestry (previously) and false sexual assault allegations against her wife to get an academic job has a new essay in the paper about the fallout after a video of a confrontation in an ASU multicultural space went viral: “The Safe Space That Became a Viral Nightmare”
(This is not an essay that reaches pat conclusions for its actors, but rather an exploration of ripples.)
(All links non-paywalled.) [more inside]
(This is not an essay that reaches pat conclusions for its actors, but rather an exploration of ripples.)
(All links non-paywalled.) [more inside]
"We were having lunch at Bono's house."
Jared Kushner's 'Breaking History' (NYT, archive.org) is a soulless and very selective memoir [more inside]
Protests are different now.
Surely, this big protest wave [in 2003 against the Iraq War] — possibly the largest in history — would help stop the relentless march toward this ill-advised war. We all know how that went. I Was Wrong About Why Protests Work (NYT) [more inside]
Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief.
That concept might be the reason her trailblazing stand-up career has been overshadowed; it may also be the reason she’s still so sharp. (archive.today link)
"Work Somewhere that Doesn't Disgust You"
"Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto CEO" (SLNYT (archive.org) about crypto app Kraken and CEO Jesse Powell)
"It would be my recommendation you should resign."
“The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us." (archive.org link) In which Congressional Republicans briefly contemplate breaking from Trump after January 6, and then... don't. Adapted from Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns' 'This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for American Democracy.'
all good things
The New York Times Buys Wordle (NYT; archive.is link).
Wordle was purchased from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
Gorgeous, Profound, Borderless In Possibility
Hayao Miyazaki Prepares to Cast One Last Spell “'When you meet something that is very strange that you haven’t met before, instead of being scared of it, try to connect with it,' Miyazaki tells me." Ligaya Mishan's interview with the genius animator for the New York Times is the first in an English-language publication since 2014.
CBT, chronic pain, and ableism
The article reads as self-congratulatory, biased, and anti-opioid, going so far as to say that therapists are providing a “powerful salve for suffering” despite later admitting that most research only shows one-third of participants experience significant improvement. They removed the quotes they had from actual patients who received CBT and found it unhelpful or harmful. [more inside]
"Do writers not care about my kidney donation?"
Dawn Dorland donated her kidney, but her story, she feels, was stolen. In the New York Times Magazine, Robert Kolker details a years-long grudge, and ensuing legal battle, between writers Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson. Dorland gave a kidney in a non-directed donation (i.e. to a stranger), in what she saw as an act of righteous and praiseworthy moral clarity. Larson then wrote and published a story in which a character donates a kidney in an act of... well. The portrayal was not a flattering one—and, to Dorland's mind, it got worse. [more inside]