New Yorker magazine alert thread

according to a friend living in china it's pretty easy to by-pass the censors there, too

I think that's that.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/lucy-letby-loses-attempt-to-appeal-against-baby-convictions

― xyzzzz__, Friday, May 24, 2024 6:30 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

So, are we allowed to read the article now?

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, May 24, 2024 6:36 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

nope:

Reporting of the appeal is limited as restrictions are in place.

Letby was given 14 whole-life sentences for her crimes and is due to face a retrial on one count of attempted murder at Manchester crown court next month.

another slam dunk for the contempt of court law's reporting restrictions :)

according to a friend living in china it's pretty easy to by-pass the censors there, too

― flopson, Saturday, 25 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Not even President Xi can mess with archive ph

"https://archive.ph is 100% blocked in China"

https://en.greatfire.org/https/archive.ph

my friend uses a vpn. according to him the censors can still see what you're doing on your vpn, but they turn a blind eye if it's banal enough. i asked because i noticed that he was still posting on instagram and twitter after moving to shanghai

Good article on the DSM as arbiter of personal identity in a recent issue.

Good piece on Fetterman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/john-fettermans-war

Yeah, I just finished reading that. This paragraph stuck out for me:

From the back seat of the Bronco, I could not see Fetterman’s face, but he seemed to be enjoying himself. His steady stream of commentary washed over me like sports talk radio. Reflecting on the Presidential race, he said it had been inevitable that Trump would be the G.O.P. nominee: “DeSantis was like a Scott Walker in four-inch lifts,” whereas Trump “broadcasts on a very specific frequency that brings out people who don’t give a shit or know who is mayor or supervisor.” In the most recent elections in Pennsylvania, he went on, Oz and the Republican candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, had both tried to replicate Trump’s approach, only to lose badly on Election Day. “There’s only one Pennywise,” Fetterman said, referring to the murderous entity in Stephen King’s novel “It.” “And everyone else who tries to pretend that—they just look like a clown at a birthday party.”

Unfortunately, the impression that I got from it is of someone who I agree with on a lot of other shit, and is generally good to have in the Senate, who is completely wrong about Israel and completely immovable on the issue.

And he might be reelected for decades.

I don't see any way out of this situation. So long as Dems are the party of everyone-not-a-fascist it's going to elect legislators like Fetterman.

I think it's fair to giving him shit as long as he speaks like an 8 year old bully about the genocide. I'm not voting for him again.

Lol was just going to revive this as I saw this blog/page that talks through the statistical evidence in the Letby case.

https://triedbystats.com/

There is no way I would vote for
Fetterman again, but that’s stating the obvious. I’ve met people like him all my life in PA— they’re all not-so-secretly racist assholes

Lol was just going to revive this as I saw this blog/page that talks through the statistical evidence in the Letby case.

https://triedbystats.com/

― xyzzzz__, Monday, June 24, 2024 5:15 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

shouldn’t you check with your local precinct that this is approved reading material?

lol

just skimmed through. good stuff

There is no way I would vote for Fetterman again, but that’s stating the obvious. I’ve met people like him all my life in PA— they’re all not-so-secretly racist assholes

this is the closest i've ever seen you to admitting you might have been wrong about something!

which is cool. i wasn't in a position to vote for him, but was a fan, and am also deeply disappointed

My subscription expires at the end of July. I only subscribed in the first place so I could pillage their archives for anything and everything they had on Cecil Taylor (which was a lot, going all the way back to 1957), and I don't know if I'm ready to give them another $120. Although I suppose it's a tax writeoff since it could wind up being research for potential future projects.

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

just skimmed through. good stuff

― flopson, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Knew you'd like a bar chart

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

I got a year via cheap "please come back!" promo, extended it another year cheap, and then some friends gave us a gift sub that extended it one more year. I'll hang around through the centennial next year but probably not after that. Unperson, I'd keep it as a business expense.

things i never read in the new yorker:

letters
talk of the town
shouts & murmurs
long depressing articles about politics or global affairs
anything by patricia marx
fiction
poetry
critical reviews of classical music or theater

but for some reason i always read the restaurant review even though i don't live in NYC

first thing I read in the new yorker:

long depressing articles about politics or global affairs

Ha I religiously read the restaurant reviews too.

first thing I read in the new yorker:

long depressing articles about politics or global affairs

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

ha, same.

Followed by Justin Chang's reviews.

as for the archives on jazz, I've really been digging this three issue-spanning profile on Ellington from 1944. So cool to get a sense how he was seen at his peak. Starts here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1944/06/24/duke-ellington-profile-the-hot-bach-i

The only thing I almost never read is fiction. I also don't make a point of reading the poetry, although it occasionally catches my eye in the middle of the page. I usually at least skim the rest, although I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!) or medium-sized articles in the back of the book about long-dead writers I have scant interest in.

Agreed that Tables for Two is reliably worth reading, especially since Hannah Goldfield became the regular columnist a few years ago. And now it's Helen Rosner, who's pretty good, too. I sometimes miss Goldfield in that space, but glad that she's still on staff, writing longer articles about food and dining.

Everyone seems very proud of themselves for not reading the fiction. I admit it's usually not to my taste, but I will give stories a try now and then.

The Tessa Hadley story in this week's issue was at least as interesting as that article about the Surgeon to the Stars.

i'm not proud of most of this, but it's how i manage getting through each week's issue and keep myself sane. also i'm not that interested in short fiction in general, though they often have authors i like in the NYer.

i am proud of never reading david sedaris pieces, that guy sucks

i'm not proud of most of this, but it's how i manage getting through each week's issue

Same

If you cancel and wait them out, they'll eventually send a better deal. I cancelled in spring 2023 and after about 10 months, I got mailed an offer to get 12 months for $50. I'm a pretty casual New Yorker reader so the gap in my subscription doesn't bother me

ditto and we didn’t even wait 10 months it was more like 1 or 2 if even. my bf was the one who did all the negotiating over the phone but we got a drastically reduced subscription
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 6:31 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if you have a .edu address you get a nice discount too — I think my rate is 69.99/yr

I jump to the restaurant review and any long-form pieces about scammers or people putting themselves in uncomfortable & inadvisable situations (y'know, trekking across Antarctica or spending millions of dollars getting to the bottom of the ocean, etc).

I go right to pieces about like Ja Rule opening a nail salon or Slick Rick's line of magnet poetry.

And he might be reelected for decades.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 24, 2024 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. he’s in his mid-50s, is 6 foot 8 and overweight, has heart failure, and already had a stroke

also, a terrible driver

I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!)

Anderson is my current favorite of the staff writers. Always amazed how he gets through the most dangerous parts of the world, reports on whatever complicated conflict is going on there, and gets out. I mean, he got to Haiti and met with Barbecue last year!

I did like his Personal History about hitchhiking around the world as a teenager in the '70s.

people putting themselves in uncomfortable & inadvisable situations

this one was really good:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-woman-who-spent-five-hundred-days-in-a-cave

Yes exactly right, a perfect example of the form.

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. he’s in his mid-50s, is 6 foot 8 and overweight, has heart failure, and already had a stroke

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 2:42 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

also, a terrible driver

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes),

otm

Back when I subscribed - I dropped off last fall because it got too expensive and I wasn’t reading enough for it to be worth it - was largely about the movie reviews, the music blurbs, the book reviews, the occasional big feature. The poetry sometimes, the fiction less often, when it was a fiction writer I was into.

What I pretty much always read and was always reliably delighted by: Peter Schjeldahl, the GOAT.

Same.

I sometimes skip long features about international subjects (sorry, Jon Lee Anderson!)

this is crazy! who else is doing what he’s doing? I’d pay for a quarterly with a single 30 page JLA feature per issue

he really is one of the best

I'm more likely to read him if I'm keeping up with the magazine week to week, as opposed to trying to get through a stack of back issues.

I try to read as much as I can online.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/02/lucy-letby-found-guilty-of-trying-to-kill-two-hour-old-baby

I read it through my local library via Libby app.

Shocking case, defence were negligible in not challenging more robustly the statistics used to convict her.

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, May 15, 2024 4:17 AM bookmarkflaglink

Same. It's free with a lot of local library cards. https://libbyapp.com/