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December 03, 2015
• Movie columnists Grierson and Leitch are leaving their perch at Deadspin for a new home at The New Republic, and recalling their previous flight from Yahoo, whose decline and fall our own Chris Lehmann charted in The Baffler. • Same old shit, brand new outrage? On ...

Thought Leaders as Loss Leaders
The breathless, investor-beguiling fable that the next iteration of the Web has to be the smart one has been around long enough now to qualify as a touching millenarian faith, like the quadrennial fiction of a “deep” GOP presidential field, or the diehard belief that the ...

Daily Bafflements
December 02, 2015
• Today in billionaires: Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will be donating 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charitable purposes within their lifetimes. The announcement came in the form of a ...

Daily Bafflements
December 01, 2015
• Over at The New Republic Peter Moskowitz details how apps “enable neighborhoods to retain their real estate value without having any local value,” starting with the fact they make it possible for neighborhoods to “function without having to work at ...

Daily Bafflements
November 30, 2015
• After much begging and pleading with the Federal Aviation Administration to let it use drones to deliver packages, and setting up a special taskforce, Amazon hasn’t yet been able to find a safe way to do it. But that hasn’t prevented the company ...

Daily Bafflements
November 24, 2015
• “Fast casuals,” fast food chains of a perceived higher quality, such as Chipotle, haven’t yet been the focus of movements like the Fight for $15, but that’s not to say they treat their employees any better than franchises like McDonalds. ...

Daily Bafflements
November 23, 2015
• “Burn Down the House of Commons in Your Brand New Shoes” was Keith White’s ode to Details, which shuttered last week. And it started: May there be a place for it in paradise, where it will be ministered to by winged and be-haloed Orlando Blooms for ...

For Chyron Out Loud
Even amid the fast-multiplying agora of digital platforms, tweets, and instagrams that make up our new millennial mediaverse, one almost-touching platitude continues to transfix the sober lords of the establishment press: the impartial, stern-yet-blasé myth of purely ...

Daily Bafflements
November 20, 2015
• As the song goes, breaking up is hard to do, but Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can ease the pain for you. Facebook is testing out a new set of tools called “take a break,” which quickly offer coupled users who change their relationship status the chance to see ...

Daily Bafflements
November 19, 2015
• Wired reports on claims by the Tor Project, a free “onion routing” software for enabling anonymous communication online, that the FBI paid researchers at Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to hack its users aiding in an investigation which resulted in ...

Daily Bafflements
November 18, 2015
• Over at In These Times, Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann reviews Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party. “The book, for all its ...

Daily Bafflements
November 17, 2015
• Last month Caitlin Dewey gave Washington Post readers the skinny on #femtube, an online agglomeration of women (especially young girls) with exorbitant YouTube followings. Today The Baffler’s Lucy Ellmann notes the boring religiosity with which these ...