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Good morning and goodbye, October,
which looked mostly like this:
A squirrel snack, Felix meeting up with his siblings, Sam Cat being Sam Cat, hanging out with my new representative Melat Kiros (!), a tree that took my breath away, and writing-and-printing-and-writing-more.
Last week, I did a deep dive into the mysterious backstory of the business influencer Alex Hormozi (“Are You READY TO SCALE?”), after a matinee viewing of You Can See Everything inspired an LSD trip through the YouTube looking glass. After it was published, I received a text from a beloved colleague in the “financial independence” world. They told me they had asked ChatGPT a few months ago why “the math didn’t seem to math” in the Hormoziverse. Its response, which they shared with me, mirrored my thesis to a spooky degree, which I guess is proof that I’m soon going to be replaced by AI:
What I find particularly interesting about your observation is that you’re describing something more sophisticated than an ordinary scam. The initial claim may be exaggerated or even fabricated, but the success that follows can become entirely real. Eventually, the original claim barely matters anymore because the individual has accumulated enough real-world success to make questioning their origins seem almost absurd.
This news makes me feel like we need to smash the “circle back” button on this Business Insider headline from a few weeks ago:
This story exists at the precise intersection of my interests: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are unionizing. I’m fighting the urge to belabor the point that you shouldn’t have to be the subjects of a popular Netflix docuseries to exercise your basic labor rights. Instead, I’ll take this opportunity to point out a pattern in reporting about labor action that you’ll never be able to unsee: how the language subtly implies the reader’s interests are aligned with those of the conglomerate, rather than the workers. (ESPN)
The workers (labor) are always “making demands” (connotation: petulant, undeserving), while the bosses (capital) are always “making offers” (connotation: generous, conciliatory). This observation comes to you courtesy of Michael Parenti’s Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America (1993).
Labor action is frequently framed in terms of how it will “threaten the economy” or “raise costs,” but neglects to calculate or even mention the society-wide costs of chronic low pay or undignified conditions. One easy question to ask yourself when you see headlines about “the economy”: Whose economy?
Trying desperately to think of a jump-split and/or Thunderstruck pun about collective bargaining. Photo Credit: Carol M. Highsmith
Oh, good, another celebrity beauty brand! There’s virtually nothing that Jennifer Lawrence could do that I would find less interesting than “turning her Hollywood hair story” into a product line. (Fortune)
Her 2025 New York Times interview about her craft and the impossibility of being a woman in the public eye was so meaty and insightful that it’s hard not to feel this is a step backward.
Back then, Lawrence was conspicuously absent from social media, a rarity in the world of public figures, where humiliating self-promotion is an occupational hazard. It might be impressive to have millions of followers, but it’s a much bigger flex to be off the platforms entirely, because it indicates you’re so established and respected that you don’t even need to promote your work any longer. About a month before the launch of the haircare line, it would appear she finally relented and joined Instagram—ostensibly as a publicity tool for selling shampoo. Recession indicator?
Love the tidbit in the opening paragraph about how Ballerina Farm is dropping a “tallow tin body butter.” I had no idea the Queen of the Tradwives is branching into skincare. (I stand by my assertion that if the MAHA crowd got on board with formula feeding, Ballerina Farm could become a billion-dollar company by selling a raw-milk-protein-farmer-ballerina baby formula.) (Forbes)
The Instagram account for the aforementioned beauty line.
In conclusion:
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i’m so tired of celebs starting beauty brands…start a movie theatre, a library, a karaoke bar - literally anything else pls, have fun with it!!
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This is what evenings looked like before television. “Entertainment wasn’t something you consumed, it was something you participated in.” This video is a little repetitive, but I had never considered that television changed living-room furniture—seating used to be designed for people to sit and look at each other (or some task, like a piano, a table, a desk, etc.), not oriented around a central portal of entertainment. I’m hesitant to romanticize the pre-television era too much, but I agree with the commenter who observed it seems like evenings used to be about “connecting (with yourself, with others),” rather than “disassociating.” (YouTube)
One of the Jon & Kate Plus 8 sextuplets published a memoir alleging abuse following Jon and Kate’s messy public split. I recently joined Ryan Broderick on his podcast about internet culture, Panic World, to talk about the sinister “family vlogger” niche. We discussed TLC shows like J&K+8 as a tame, early iteration. The form combines the brain-melting, dopaminergic reward loop of the internet with the escalating incentives to transform your children into profit centers. Regardless of what’s in the book, signing your kids up for reality television seems abusive in its own right. (The Cut)
Is rape a crime? When student journalists published a story in September about a reported gang rape at Cornell University, it became national news. The particular details of the lawsuit—the screenshots of the group chat, Jane Doe’s texts with the men afterward, and the consequences (or lack thereof) for the fraternity members—produced a thicket of thinkpieces attempting to determine what, specifically, went wrong here. Speculation ranged from “alcohol and ketamine” to “the sexual revolution,” all while mostly managing to sidestep one of the most relevant and harrowing statistics, and the inconvenient question it raises: If 99% of rapes¹ don’t result in a felony conviction, does our society really believe sexual violence is a crime? This episode is paywalled for subscribers, but there’s a 52-minute free preview. (Diabolical Lies)
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There are a few essays which informed this episode that are formally behind the paywall but are so incisive that I feel obligated to share them here:
“Everybody Knows” by Elizabeth Schambelan. A challenging read about the mundanity of multiple-perpetrator rape, from 2019. (n+1)
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan, a logically rigorous essay collection that takes a refreshing argumentative tack that I like to call “the side door,” which avoids the obvious “for”/“against” split. (Picador)
Cover Photo Credit: Macmillan
“On Pandering” by Claire Vaye Watkins, a piece that was removed from the internet (this is a web archive link) because the man who features in the opening anecdote sued her. The essay appears to be about a wheels-off instance of sexual harassment, but turns into an uncomfortably resonant meditation about her subconscious imagined audience as a writer. (Tin House)
“Myself, I have been writing to impress old white men. Countless decisions I’ve made about what to write and how to write it have been in acquiescence to the opinions of the white male literati. Not only acquiescence but a beseeching, approval seeking, people pleasing.”
It reminds me of the opening section of Ellen Willis’s essay “Up from Radicalism” (1969), which itself is further proof that our podcast mostly just restates ideas that feminists wrote about 60 years ago.
From The Essential Ellen Willis.
Until next time.
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For every 1,000 rapes estimated by the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, roughly 310 are reported to police. Combining that survey with FBI and court data, RAINN estimates that 57 lead to an arrest, 13 are referred to prosecutors, and just seven end in a felony conviction. By that composite estimate, 99% of rapes never result in a felony conviction.
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