Daily Bafflements
• Baffler contributing editor Astra Taylor reports on “the troubling intersection between higher education and high finance” over at The Nation. And it’s not just Harvard she’s talking about: in the wake of state funding cuts, more and more public universities are investing endowment money in hedge funds.
• Without comment, and drowning in our own skepticism, we present “How Robots Will Kill the Gig Economy.”
• David Graeber once lamented to Baffler readers about the unrealized “technological wonders any child growing up in the mid-to-late twentieth century assumed would exist by now.” David would probably find it little consolation that at least our kitchen appliances have finally caught up to Jetsons-era predictions.