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“Spotify has said nothing. Listen to me, nothing. They haven’t said anything to my manager, they haven’t said anything to me. They’ve said nothing. They’ve apparently had meetings. But they have a lot of meetings. They have meetings about all sorts of shows. They have meetings about the music they have.”
— Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Responds to Talk of Spotify Censoring His Podcast
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“Socialism comes to power, paradoxically, when all compulsive energy to go beyond oneself, all social energies of rupture, all alternative cultural energies have more or less been exhausted — and it carries the sigmas of this exhaustion, and profits by it. If it sets itself up without resistance, it's not so much that it has won over the Right, it's because the entire space before it has been emptied by the reflux of vital forces.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Divine Left
Tagged: Socialism
“They have just completely shut down critical content about human rights abuses in China.”
— Judd Apatow, Judd Apatow Calls Out Hollywood Censorship on Human Rights
“You are more than the sum of how others see you.”
— Brianna Wiest, Who You Are
Tagged: Shop Catalog
“You won’t look back on these days and remember how hard they were, you’ll look back on them and be so beyond proud of yourself for pushing through the bad days and the challenging times because you’ll know how absolutely worth it it all was in the end.”
— Charlotte Freeman, Looking Back
Tagged: Shop Catalog
“Most people still do not grasp that Cold War II has begun. Cold War I was a forty-year affair. But who is to say that the U.S.-China conflict will not be another hundred years’ war?”
— Niall Ferguson, Joe Biden Could End Up Being a Wartime President
“What I fear today more than the measures applied by China (and Italy and…) is that they apply these measures in a way that will not work to contain the epidemic, while authorities will manipulate and conceal the true data.”
— Slavoj Žižek, Monitor and Punish? Yes, Please!
“Publications open about their bias might feel freer to focus on the specifics: story selection, presentation, facts, fairness, balance. Not devoid of subtlety for sure, but manageable.”
— Van Gordon Sauter, The ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Has Passed Its Tipping Point
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/rt-america-recruiting-us-journalists-ahead-of-2020-election/”
— NYPOST, Russian media company recruiting US journalists ahead of 2020 election
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“This list curates the best slow-burn horror movies from the 1960s onward.”
— Creepy Catalog, Slow Burn Horror Movies — The Art of Atmospheric Horror Films