622: Met Gala boycotts, how Zohran balanced the budget, and types of Modern Men

Youch, 3 weeks behind Coreyspondence due to work and travel - here’s a remedial issue from a few weeks ago and then right afterwards I’m going to send an Egypt specific one because that’s where I’ve been the last two weeks.

Zohran balanced the budget! Atrioc dives into exactly how he did it and it's fascinating to see the inner workings of mayoral finances. Essentially it's a lot of deferring payments and credits.

This ‘museum’ printed out all 3.5M pages of the Epstein files and you could make appointments to peruse them in Manhattan. It may go on tour now.

The Met Gala happened at the Met Museum, which has been a haute couture event sets the middle of the 20th century, but recently prices have climbed to like $50,000 a pop which means that only the most rich and famous people are there we're in the most ridiculous clothing, which is fun to gawk at.

But this year Jeff Bezos and Amazon are sponsoring itso there was a lot of backlash due to their working practices. Activist group Everybody hates Elon snuck in Amazon branded urine bottles to the restrooms, for instance.

This journalist made the comparison to the devil wears prada 2 to which I happened to watch the week before and found a compelling take on the modern media and fashion landscape that even has the Met Gala and a billionaire investor Bezos analog as the antagonist. Anna Wintour the Vogue editor runs the gala, after all, and she was the inspiration for the Devil in the book the first movie was based on.

I got chills reading this Types of Men You Date in the Bay Area piece, because I daresay every man can see parts of themselves in the sad male archetypes this female author lays out here. Her thesis is that modern culture throws out the good masc with the bad masc in a way that leaves men hollow, and there's something to be said for that.

I have heard the idea that modern men need a rite of passage from boyhood many times, like most indigenous cultures had, because girls already know when they become women - it's when they start menstruating.

This father daughter team makes delightful 3d printed zoetropes I can’t take my eye off of and installs them in public squares.

This video on the origins of meme noise effects placed several noises we know and love and hear often, with a behind the scenes look at how such things proliferate.