The Baffler

• The Dark #Future of #News #Innovation is upon us, and it’s not found in the massive layoffs at the New York Times: “Vice Media, Knight Foundation and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced plans Monday evening for a $500,000 journalism innovation fund, ...

• Well, welcome back, Bafflers, it’s Cyber Monday, which means it’s time to explore all of your gadget gift guides! This list of must-haves by the editors at Popular Science includes a $3,000 drone, a pair of mesh and carbon-fiber sneakers designed by Porsche, and ...

• “It would have been powerful to see charges filed against Darren Wilson. At the same time, actual justice for Michael Brown—a world in which young men like Michael Brown can’t be gunned down without consequences—won’t come from the criminal justice system. Our ...

• A former U.S. attorney writes in the Washington Post about why it’s so difficult to prosecute a police officer: it’s all about the officer’s state of mind. “Federal law sets a very high bar, and essentially requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt ...

• Find your Silicon Valley job title with this handy generator. Ours is “collaboration sherpa.” • Um, why is everyone making fun of our folded-cardboard virtual reality masks? • Quote of the Day, from the Business section of the Portland Press Herald: ...

• Today in Millionaires: Japanese millionaire Chisako Kakehi has been the beneficiary of almost $7 million in insurance money after the death of seven husbands and boyfriends over twenty years, reports the Guardian. Her latest husband died of cyanide poisoning; she was ...

• We’ve really got to stop giving the New York Times such a hard time for being out of touch with the financial realities of most of its readers’ lives. In a section of the paper on Wednesday that was literally entitled “Your Money,” an article ...

• Here is a blog post about a custom T-shirt startup company, presented without comment or context: “Karl Marx Would Have Liked Teespring.” (Via Zachary Davis.) • Read Baffler blog contributor Alana Massey’s excellent salvo about the hours and hours of ...