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Category: power

politics, history, force

business/movies & television/power/work

show me

October 16, 2021

i’ll believe all the pretty talk about diversity and inclusion when a pilot episode ends with The Cover Girl’s Show Me. either our history matters o...

business/ideas/journalism/movies & television/power

more money in trolling

February 13, 2021

I made this video for Instagram just over two years ago. It should probably be hosted here as well. Transcript: “what happens when there’s more mone...

business/ideas/language/movies & television/power/work

Queens English

February 8, 2021

From my February 7, 2021 newsletter. Reprinted in full with a few grammatical corrections. “You don’t sound Cuban.” “Where’s your ...

ideas/latin america/power

free the USA, repeal the HSA

July 19, 2020

A video for Instagram: The New Republic has a fine recap. File under: “Little Green Men“

business/journalism/movies & television/power

Junk

June 26, 2019

I grew up when America was first discussing “junk food”: ready-to-eat foods that were filling, and tasty, but neither nutritious nor healthy. I feel like we’ve ...

language/latin america/power

latines

February 27, 2019

Latines is a gender neutral term that is pronounced as it’s written, in both English and Spanish.  The “e” can also be used to make other nouns gender neut...

language/power

Monolingualism is an aberration

January 9, 2019

Julie Tetel Andresen in The Allusionist: Monolingualism is an aberration – most people have been multilingual… The human body and brain is quite well adap...

movies & television/people/power/work

First families

January 9, 2019

I slept fitfully and repeatedly dreamed of the migrant family, as enshrined by Christianity. La familia sagrada. The holy family versus Herod, the king. The fam...

people/power

Catholic Celibacy and Cuban Communism

November 18, 2018

In the early 1960s, two very different regimes attempted to remake humanity: Still, the revolution was most astonishing not for its radical redistribution of we...

business/people/power

quasi-public spaces

April 19, 2018

From my Facebook account, July 23, 2015: [note: I saw a man, apparently homeless, using a Starbucks cup to justify his occupying space in an outdoor seating are...

art/movies & television/power/technology

War Games, Fail-Safe, Dr. Strangelove

April 7, 2018

In 1998, there were two movies about a natural catastrophe: Armageddon & Deep Impact. In 2006, there were two movies about magicians living outside the real...

art/movies & television/power

Underground

February 28, 2018

Magicians show you things you don’t know you’re seeing. Prosecutors tell you things you don’t realize you’re hearing. Movies use a similar ploy: they make you f...

latin america/movies & television/people/power

the normal

February 23, 2018

I just scanned the most recent issue of “14 y medio”, a banned / clandestine news digest from Cuba. You won’t be surprised that the stories are about struggle. ...

ideas/power/technology

a big lie

January 31, 2018

most car commercials are really public road commercials

ideas/mental illness/power/work

Actual Science Fiction

January 31, 2018

A hundred years from now half the cops will have psych degrees and we’ll look back on today like a horror show. (the movie “Bright” is not actually ...

business/people/power/technology

Facebook is made out of…

January 14, 2018

very good critics point out that Facebook is engineered to be addictive. but they seldom recognize that the pleasure being meted out is OTHER PEOPLE. for exampl...

art/movies & television/power

Invasions

November 30, 2017

One of the charms of Star Wars was the contrast of robots and serfs, space ships and lords. High technology and feudalism. If you follow US politics (don’t, it’...

ideas/people/power/technology

Wheels of fortune

May 19, 2017

Smart people become irrational around technology. We want absolutes, purity and simple answers; whether it’s being anti-GMO or bullish on AI, the impulse ...

art/business/latin america/power

Pleasure and power

April 18, 2017

Casamigos, Doritos marketing collateral, 2018 A consistent theme in the marketing of Mexico’s grastronomic culture is the erasure of Mexicans. When Mexica...

art/business/movies & television/power

Motherhood and the workplace

February 4, 2017

The movie Arrival (2016) and the movie Alien (1979) are contrasting takes on motherhood and women in the workplace. In Arrival, a successful professional woman ...

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