Best things I Heard This Week (Week 28, 2005)
Pusha T, left, with his brother and rap partner No Malice during their NPR Tiny Desk concert. A poster image from the video.
- What Makes Us Free?
- NPR Throughline brings us this terrific introduction to neoliberalism, or the idea that the market can solve major societal problems, that are better than solutions from the government.
- Autocracy in America: The Return
- This season, the show adds chess player and Soviet/Russian/Azerbaijani democracy activist Garry Kasparov. Kasaprov saw the rise of Putinism up close. He has thoughtful opinions about the way 🍊 is similar in his behavior, if not his effectiveness.
- From gr*pists to nip nops, how self-censorship shapes the language of TikTok
- Algorithmic editing (i.e.: what gets promoted and supressed) is shaping the way we use words online. I was unfamiliar with the term
nip nops
before this episode, but immediately knew what it was when I heard it. - Clipse: Tiny Desk Concert
- Grindin' is a classic. If you've ever banged out that beat on a desk or a lunch table, you'll appreciate how they adapted it to a live performance.
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