Louis CK on stage at the 76th Annual Peabody Awards in 2017 (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
TODAY’S MUST-READ NEWS AND ANALYSIS
- Facebook knowingly inflated video analytics by 150 to 900% to encourage marketers to buy more ads. [The Verge]
- As Sears files for bankruptcy, we look back on how the mail-order catalogue subverted racial hierarchies in the Jim Crow era. [The Washington Post]
- A female Uber passenger was forced to pay $1,047 after her driver kidnapped and assaulted her. [The Cut]
- Rachel Bloom parodies Mrs. Frizzle in a Magic School Bus style PSA on STDs. [Refinery29]
- Virginia school quarantines transgender student from classmates during a routine lockdown drill. [Vice]
- Serial’s new season tackles racial bias in Cleveland’s criminal justice system. [Broadly]
- Louis CK joked on stage about how he lost “$35 million in an hour”—because somehow he’s the real victim. [Someecards]
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YESTERDAY FROM BITCH
- Excavating Trauma and the Healing Power of Haunted-Home Films | Trauma-of-the-home films have the power to demonstrate human resilience in the face of terrible things. [Sezin Koehler]
- Not a Follower, Not yet a Leader: Women Cult Leaders Hold an Insidious, Misunderstood Power | The role of powerful women in cults has generally gone unnoticed by the new wave of creep-seeking entertainment. [Hanna Olsen]
- Home Sweet Haunt: Grief and Trauma Are the Specters of “the Haunting of Hill House” | You can’t control trauma, and you can’t always protect yourself from scares. [Dahlia Balcazar]
