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When it comes up, I still calculate grams to ounces conversion via weed bag increments. 28 grams to an ounce. Fruit of a misspent youth.

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"(S)enators are uniquely empowered to speak up. Also it’s their job, and they took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and the domestic enemies are in their face right now, and as obvious as can be." Rebecca Solnit

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Eid Mubarak!

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"The American people have spoken – and we have heard them. Yes, indeed, there is a ‘new sheriff in town.’ Which has made it a very different ‘town’ — one that some of us no longer wish to visit. It is no longer obligatory... https://zbarocas.micro.blog/2025/03/21/the-american-people-have-spoken.html

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I imagine the Tesla protests are so much more effective than the social media exoduses in large part because their impact is seen and felt more widely and directly. In the end, leaving a platform or service for any reason ot... https://zbarocas.micro.blog/2025/03/21/i-imagine-the-tesla-protests.html

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"Looking at the past, I see, if I may oversimplify the picture, a mixture of failures and achievements. The failures were due to well-meaning but shortsighted thinking, to a pedestrian ideology; the achievements were due to a magna... https://zbarocas.micro.blog/2025/03/08/looking-at-the-past-i.html

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"Church isn’t a showcase for saints, it’s a hospital for sinners." Black youth, A Time for Burning

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Sort of Floating Manhattan, New York City

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I appreciate the thought behind the spending boycott tomorrow but urge shoppers instead to spend at non-corporate businesses. I’m a small-business owner myself and we can’t afford a day of no customers. Hopefully, some pe... https://zbarocas.micro.blog/2025/02/27/i-appreciate-the-thought-behind.html

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"The word “devotion,” as I am using it, need not refer to the embodiment of a specific religious form. Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation.”" — Nathaniel Dorsky, [Devotional Cinema]

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It’s been nearly impossible to write anything here. I say nearly but of course I mean impossible. The last few months — and more so the last few weeks — have left me baffled and stunned, despairing and frightened. My usual ... https://zbarocas.micro.blog/2025/02/24/its-been-nearly-impossible-to.html

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Caspar Brooklyn, NY

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Subway Yard Manhattan, NYC

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Matthew and Ruby Brooklyn, NY

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If you need a paid-subscription newsletter platform, you or your staff can surely find something other than Substack. If you don’t know why this matters, you might look into it.

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Little Sale Tags "The more I think about songs, the more mysterious they become. They stand in our minds as spiritual histories of certain times; they represent in their lyrics and lines of melody wars and other disasters, moral process, the fruits of exp... https://zachbarocas.com/little-sale-tags

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Here’s a social story: I met @danimichaeli.bsky.social in second grade. Our teacher was mean as a snake. Dani was as kind as could be. She’s long gone. Dani remains terrific.

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Here’s a social story: I met @gregpak.net 30 years ago next month. He answered a flyer I hung at NYU seeking a cameraman for a pre-student film I was making. He remains as thoughtful and talented as ever.

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I just subscribed to Greg Pak - Personal and Political! buttondown.com/gregpaknet

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Dissolves Difference "The smartphone is what you get when the architecture of media collapses. It’s a black hole full of light: information supercompressed but radiant. In its singularity, it might be described as the first postmedia medium. Its circu... https://zachbarocas.com/dissolves-difference

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Just fired up the @newfreedomsound.bsky.social account.

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‘President Biden Is Bowing Out After One Term. He’s Not the First.’ 🔗 Chris Cameron / nytimes.com

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The Guy Who Did This ‘We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This’ Charlie Warzel / theatlantic.com "That Zuckerberg should look out over his kingdom and see it as “out of touch” isn’t a criticism of “woke” Democrats or a regulation-crazy government... https://zachbarocas.com/the-guy-who-did-this

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Best Of 2024 BrooklynVegan.com My some-of-my-favorite-records-from-2024 list is live at BrooklynVegan. Thanks again to the editors for inviting me to take part.

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Queens Local Queens, New York, 2023

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‘MUSIC 2023: A DECIDEDLY SELECTIVE SURVEY’ 🔗 Steven Greenfield / permanentransience.blogspot.com

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Uniquely Designed "Sit down. Be yourself. Be prepared. Be attentive. Defy the voices. Be the thing you want to be. Write. Be playful. Be reckless. Remember that you are uniquely designed for the idea that is moving toward you. You are good enough. The idea is about to arrive." Nick Cave

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Pause for a Moment Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC "Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers of your reinventions." Colson Whitehead

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Truly Senseless and Preposterous T.J. Clark · Frank Auerbach’s London: Frank Auerbach "This episode has stuck in my mind because it’s as close as I’ve ever come to what is supposed to be the primal scene of modern art: the experience of ma... https://zachbarocas.com/truly-senseless-and-preposterous

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Carrying On, Backing Out, Moving on Iâve been thinking about backing out of my social media accounts again for some time. Iâve been here before. Iâve deleted, for instance, three or four Facebook accounts since 2008. I canât rememb... https://zachbarocas.com/carrying-on-backing-out-moving-on

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Why Are We Here? "The U.S. will now be run by a white supremacist authoritarian President and a political party that has chosen to accept that brand as its identity." Sherrilyn Ifill

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Political Technology "There is no doubt that a key factor in votersâ swing to Trump is that they associated the inflation of the post-pandemic months with Biden and turned the incumbents out, a phenomenon seen all over the world." "There is also no... https://zachbarocas.com/political-technology

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