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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 21, 2018

Alexa, nuke my Lean Cuisine Chicken Ranch Club Flatbread Melt!

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 20, 2018

Burn, Burberry, burn!

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 13, 2018

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Paul Ryan?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 01, 2018

Keep Calm and Scam On

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 27, 2018

Style is over! If you want it!

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 13, 2018

The Good, the Bad, and the Fiscally Prudent

This Could Revolutionize That

Kieran Dahl

April 05, 2018

Mindlessly in thrall to Silicon Valley, the media can't stop repeating the phrase "could revolutionize" in its headlines.

The Cambridge Analytica Con

Yasha Levine

March 21, 2018

“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture, and hence creates desire rather than a mere feeling of ought.” —Walter Dill Scott, Influencing ...

Parkland: Urgency and Insurgency

Jacob Silverman

February 26, 2018

Today's digital-savvy teens are wise in ways their elders are not—and they're not intimidated by trolling from the right.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 26, 2018

Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion. This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...

The Longest Miles

James White

November 28, 2017

I convinced myself of an extreme position, that the miles racket could be manipulated to turn the tables on the free market.

Panic in Textopolis

Nathaniel Friedman

November 22, 2017

Roundly criticized, yet supposedly anodyne, "The Emoji Movie" is a capitalist trojan horse for the grade school set.