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Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty(thebaffler.com)

18 points by prismatic 10 days ago | 27 comments

A Baffler essay by Kate Wagner on the decline and scarcity of public toilets and the problems this creates.

The Music of Destruction(thebaffler.com)

21 points by lermontov 3 months ago | 9 comments

Up in Smoke(thebaffler.com)

37 points by NaOH 5 months ago | 18 comments

The Darkness from the Darkness(thebaffler.com)

5 points by lermontov 7 months ago | 0 comments

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (2014)(thebaffler.com)

9 points by lbrito 8 months ago | 1 comments

Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair(thebaffler.com)

44 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 33 comments

W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history(thebaffler.com)

6 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 2 comments

Surely You're a Creep, Mr. Feynman (2019)(thebaffler.com)

8 points by marvinborner 1 year ago | 0 comments

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel(thebaffler.com)

23 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Therapist in the Machine(thebaffler.com)

11 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Composer Has No Clothes(thebaffler.com)

63 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 27 comments

Spreadsheet Assassins – A short history of "software as a service"(thebaffler.com)

66 points by kmt-lnh 2 years ago | 40 comments

It's not what the world needs right now(thebaffler.com)

138 points by cribbles 2 years ago | 96 comments

Hanging by a Strand: Worker dissent brews at an iconic New York bookstore (2020)(thebaffler.com)

9 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 3 comments

It's All Bullshit(thebaffler.com)

47 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 32 comments

It's All Bullshit: Performing Productivity at Google(thebaffler.com)

17 points by williamsmj 2 years ago | 0 comments

Construction Time Again: The quality crisis in American building(thebaffler.com)

37 points by NN88 3 years ago | 41 comments

Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin(thebaffler.com)

168 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 287 comments

Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger(thebaffler.com)

51 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 134 comments

The Problem with Music (1993)(thebaffler.com)

107 points by brudgers 3 years ago | 84 comments