but especially especially why would you waste your time reading a newsletter which purports to convey something valuable or essential and yet does so in the language of punditry instead of in the language of art

very little patience these days for people who craft rhetorical arguments to make their claims seem like an emotional or logical necessity instead of grounding them in lived experience and relation to the real or the human

i personally find it exhausting and i don’t understand why someone would willingly insert their email into a box to have this stuff sent directly to their address

@Lady it's a humorous and low-effort/-attention way to pass time, and the author writes well.

@alyssa yes, my claim against newsletters in general (as opposed to the specific newsletters which are currently annoying me) is just that they should be blog posts lol

but i realize that having the post as a newsletter is probably better than not having the post at all; not all newsletters are specifically bad in the ways that some are specifically bothering me right now

@Lady oh yeah i mean i think originally the one i read was a blog/newsletter with the same posts by both media and is now a bloomberg column/newsletter with the same posts by media. i just do the newsletter because temporary browser containers stopped working for bypassing the paywall for a bit.

which probably a somewhat atypical kind of newsletter (not counting ones on substack but they're on substack so fuck 'em), i'm just teasing a bit :3