The Baffler

From the folks who brought you Juicero. After unsuccessfully trying to foist a $400 juice-pouch-squeezing machine on the masses, Silicon Valley luminary Doug Evans took some time to ponder the Next Big Thing. He found it in water—raw, unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized ...

“It won’t hurt much longer,” promises Javier Bardem’s character in the 2017 movie Mother! With this utter trainwreck of a year careening to a close, we guess you could say the same of 2017, although who knows what we have to look forward to as the second year of the ...

“The following racial slurs are allowed and advisable.” The Daily Stormer’s style guide leaked to the public this week and includes helpful hints to keep the blatant racism light and playful: “dehumanization is extremely important, but it must be done within the ...

Hire an “ambiance and atmosphere model” for your office holiday party. Attractive men and women—but mostly women—are being hired in droves to pretend they’re guests at Silicon Valley holiday parties. You know, to lend an air of fun! Totally casual, ...

This motherfucker’s name is CHAZ. Novelist Emma Cline has a shitty ex-boyfriend who puts our shitty ex-boyfriends to shame. This shitty ex-boyfriend hired a shitty lawyer to do incredibly shitty things. Hopefully both the shitty ex and the shitty lawyer get ...

BAN PRISONS. This entire “Ban Week” series over at Splinter is worth your time, but this installment on prison abolition, and what it means to reimagine the justice system, is excellent.   Vanity Fair seems fun. The magazine just appointed a new editor—the incredibly ...

Online is extremely fucked up. Here’s a truly wild look at the world of Kid’s YouTube, where algorithmically-driven content production is creating some really weird shit.   “Tell me about a complicated man.” The New York Times Magazine has a great profile of ...

Your boss doesn’t care about you. In a move that’s brazenness is only rivaled by its dickishness, billionaire Joe Ricketts opted to shut down local news outlets Gothamist and DNAinfo rather than allow his employees to unionize.   Tumblr is truly wild. There’s is no ...