Daily Bafflements

• From The Baffler’s own Chris Lehmann in In These Times, a look at Whole Foods’s “artisanal union-busting” in Chicago.

• Glenn Greenwald writes at First Look that the last year of Snowden disclosures has, among other things, triggered “a desperately needed debate about journalism itself, and the proper relationship of journalists to those who wield political and economic power.”

• Via Electric Literature, a comic by Grant Snider representing all the types of conflict in literature; “man vs. technology,” depicted as a man battling a room full of computer screens with a stick, is a highlight.

• In related news, this Wired article sponsored by Oakley sunglasses reviews some new horrible tech gadgets that aim to annoy you into doing the right thing. (Via Chadwick Matlin, who calls this the “nanny-nudge era of gadgets.”) Happy Friday!