The Baffler

• Oh good heavens, Boston now has a “Startup Czar.” • The Apple Watch is fueling our class anxieties, while Apple’s CEO is fueling all of our other anxieties. • Wikipedia, along with eight other organizations, is suing the NSA over the mass surveillance ...

• Here’s what You Need to Know about today’s Apple Watch reveal: according to USA Today, it’s predicted that the top-of-the-line version could cost as much as $5,000 to $10,000, or, about the same amount of money as a 2006 Ford Escape. But hey, why be ...

• From Wired this week comes news of “A Smartwatch App That Lets Your Boss Track You Constantly.” Oh hey, cool! “It’s meant to be a social app, where people digitally ‘nudge’ each other to pick up the pace and congratulate colleagues when the ...

• Headline of the Day, from the Washington Post: “Awash in cash, Bush asks donors not to give more than $1 million – for now.” • In case you missed it, Baffler contributing editor David Graeber talked about the history of debt for a radio series on BBC, ...

• Today in Billionaires’ Dreams Do Come True: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s luxury yacht, the M/Y Octopus, is equipped with an exploration submarine. Allen announced this week that all his deep-sea explorations had not been in vain: he had discovered the wreck ...

• At The Verge, Nitasha Tiku has a dispatch from the so-called “clean cannabis” movement, and in particular from a very silly-sounding, Gatsby-themed weed start-up launch party in a mansion made of redwood trees in the Berkeley hills. • Edgar Allan Poe was a ...

• The San Jose Mercury News contributes to the “Before It Was Cool, Inc.” files: “Major companies are testing whether it would pay to tuck away their world famous logos in favor of more hipster guises” because “marketing experts say there’s ...

• Today in Bespoke: Australian artisan Dan Bolwell charges $3500 to $6000 (AUD) for his handmade penny farthing bikes, just like great-great-(great?)-grandpa used to ride. The prices range because “the purchaser can inject their personality into the design by adding ...