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Share Listening to Marc Andreessen discuss his Techno-Optimist Manifesto on the Foundation for American Innovation’s Dynamist podcast, I was struck by his repetition of something that is in the manifesto and is completely wrong. “The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares,” he writes. On the podcast, he elaborated by saying that, although fire has many benefits, the Prometheus myth focuses on its use as a weapon.

It was just this overnight conversion. Like, oh, okay, yep, the way I've been doing things my entire career is super wrong, and super harmful, and has hurt a lot of people. And that's terrible. And I'm very done with that. Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet, culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I'm chatting with Anna Maltby. Anna is a longtime magazine and digital editor and someone I've worked with many times over the years, including at Medium’s Elemental Magazine, where I wrote features on diet culture and fatphobia that she edited.

Read in the app App highly recommended if you are reading on mobile. Reposted from archive.pdf: Link There’s not much to say about Rick Owens that hasn’t been said before. But let’s start with a refresher. Dark, dusty, flowing fabrics that simultaneously obscure and reveal the body, garments that are dainty yet built to survive a nuclear winter. As Rick would put it: the ultimate luxury is that of being able to wear your clothes into the ground.

If you have any familiarity with queer lady cultural obsessions, you are likely aware that the actress Natasha Lyonne is, uh, one of them. And understandably! Not only was she the star of the amazing (and amazingly campy) lesbians-fall-in-love-at-conversion-camp rom com But I’m A Cheerleader, she also turned in a great performance as Nicky in Netflix’s queer catnip prison drama Orange is the New Black. Oh, and also she does stuff like this.

Thanks for reading the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter. If you like our work, be sure to check out our stats site, our podcast, and our social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also buy Her Hoop Stats gear, such as laptop stickers, mugs, and shirts! Last Thursday, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee approved moving the women’s three-point line to 22' 1.75" from the current 20' 9" for the upcoming 2021-22 season for all divisions.

(Some brief housekeeping before I begin the essay- firstly, I apologize for the long hiatus. I actually had to scrap the essay I originally had planned, because the words just weren’t coming. On top of that, the recent Foofaraw in the East regrettably was a great distraction to my attempts to pick a new topic. Anyway, we will be resuming a regular posting schedule now. Second, I’ve begun a new publication- Whatever Blues.

In 1983, Michael Barkun, today a professor emeritus at Syracuse University, wrote an incredible essay, presciently identifying the rise of a “New Apocalypticism” in American political discourse. Today I share some excerpts from that 40-year-old essay — Divided Apocalypse: Thinking About The End in Contemporary America — and connect them to today’s public discussions of climate change. Barkun defined the “New Apocalypticism,” as follows; The so-called "New Apocalypticism" is undeniably religious, rooted in the Protestant millenarian tradition.

The all-new Apple Square One opened on March 23 at 10 a.m. in Mississauga, Ontario. Previously one of the oldest stores in the Toronto area, the new location is now one of Apple’s most impressive in all of Ontario. Apple Square One is the first location in Canada with an Apple Pickup counter, stationed at the wood back wall. It’s also the first store in the country with the Vintage D.

“I go to the races to watch you make art. And it’s beautiful and inspiring and everything art should be.” —Susan Sarandon, Speed Racer “The Wachowskis may be guilty of being too far ahead of the curve: Maybe children one or two generations down the road will be able to process 135 minute of manic, kitschy inanity, but for now, it goes down in one big, indigestible lump.” — My original review of Speed Racer