
I had my first coffee at Wild Life today— you’ll have to wait for yours, but not for much longer 🤞🏼. It’s looking fantastic and I am so ridiculously proud of Huw (and Milla and Sarah and everybody else who’s been involved).
Do you think of yourself an influencer?
Yes. But not just an influencer. I’m a content creator. I’m a producer. I’m a brand.
Via Brodie Lancaster, this incredible review of Ingrid Goes West by an Instagram influencer.
I love AFL, but there are ways in which it obviously lags global codes, and the availability of useful stats and measures is one of those ways. Ryan Buckland proposes some interesting derived metrics, including Giveaway Rate and Around the Ground Work, which is obviously my favourite because Mitch Duncan leads it. 😽
Via one of my footy nerd pals, Damon, I also enjoyed this Vice News vid on how stats are collected, even though it’s definitely the most 🍆-heavy thing I’ve watched all week.
It’s hard to read about Dylann Roof, because his crime was so terrible and his remorselessness so shocking, but this is an excellent, searching, emotional, present essay by a black woman, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and if she will go there, then we should too. I’m embarrassed to admit that somehow, I was most shocked by this:
South Carolina is the sort of place where, out one evening in Columbia for dinner, only minutes after I sat down, I was accosted by six drunk upper-middle-class white women who were out with their grown daughters. After pointing in my direction, one of them staggered over and sat down, and with her thick tongue and her red eyes, she asked me if I was her Uber driver and demanded that I drive her somewhere, “girl.”
Ugh James Cameron, why are you wrecking it. WHY.
YA Twitter, which I observe from the sidelines, exploded a couple of days ago with this story of how a book bought its way onto the NYTimes Bestsellers list before its bogusness was sniffed out by internet sleuths. Some of the excerpts are hilariously bad.
The strapping, broad-shouldered modern strawberry that Driscoll’s exemplifies is the product of a cross between a Virginian male and a Chilean female that took place in France in the eighteenth century. The female was imported by a French Army intelligence officer…
Driscoll’s berries dominated markets on both coasts when I lived in the US, and when I arrived home to find them in Coles as well I felt a bit… I don’t know. The idea of a fresh food ‘brand’ is stressful to me. Where do the berries come from? How do they survive? This long-ass New Yorker article tells their story.
I confess that I read about the murder of Kim Wall and immediately thought that it sounded like a series of The Bridge, but I’m very pleased that Amber Jamieson has gone to the trouble of tracking down Wall’s friends and colleagues and finding out exactly what a terrific woman she clearly was.
In the dark of the night, in the shadows of Trump’s inauguration, New York City just agreed to dismiss 900,000 bogus cases and to pay the victims an astounding $75,000,000.
Nine. Hundred. Thousand. Cases. Shaun King is going very deep on the corrupt and racist 42nd Precinct of the NYPD in the Bronx, which sets arrest quotas that have resulted in the unjust arrest and incarceration of countless (disproportionately black) men and women. This is not a David Simon pitch!
(See also this 2016 New York Times magazine article about the same case).
I love this Vogue shoot of women wearing their hair natural after the US Army relaxed their raaaaacist bullllshiiiit hair rules.
