I prefer looking at individuals for their own stories, rather than categorising them under umbrella terms like ‘local’ or ‘foreigner.’ I got to where I am because of where I came from, and no one can take that away from me.
The Singaporean Woman Who Manages Hollywood’s Biggest Stars
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That reminder hit deep. (I especially miss the Johor Bahru street satay.)
Exquisitely designed and finely crafted editions of literary classics whose beauty will bring a tear to your eye. The price tags are also eye-watering.
The runway show was fantastic, though the models were wooden.
Sites of digital leisure increasingly double as sites of digital labor: If you help run your company’s social media, every time you log into Facebook or Twitter or Instagram you face bombardment from your work accounts. If someone emails you and you don’t immediately respond, they’ll move straight to your social media accounts—even when you have an auto responder indicating that you’re not available. Fewer and fewer employers supply work phones (either on the actual desk or in the form of work cell phones); calls and texts to your “work phone” (from sources, from clients, from employers) are just calls and texts to your phone. “Back in the day, AIM was the thing,” one Silicon Valley CEO explained. “You had an away message. You were literally away from your device. Now you can’t. You’re 100 percent on at all times.”
Wired: How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole
I’m really getting stuck into the Save Stereogum: An ‘00s Covers Comp album. There are 55 cover tracks to go through and Anna Calvi‘s low-key rework of No One Knows is my current ‘Repeat One’ track.
We’ll hit 1700000000 in 2023. (I could schedule a post for that right now.)
Even as we’re looking at the failures of the status quo, we’ve also seen the possibilities of a better kind of normal: Birdsong has become the predominant city soundscape. People are reclaiming streets and sidewalks for sociability and to demand social change through protests. Unheralded public servants are opening data and standing up user-friendly dashboards to make government more transparent and deliver critical information to residents with remarkable speed. Mayors across the country are experimenting with guaranteed income projects as a means of advancing racial and economic justice.
Bloomberg: Let’s Not Go Back to ‘Normal’
