Dude, who even knows.
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What is Quartz even supposed to be? I see stuff linked there off twitter sometimes and it’s like “kinda what you’d expect from being linked to medium off a 300ish reblog tweet only better, also with a graphic design sensibility that reminds you of when Vice was Vice and not “Time-Life with a 2007 style because 2007 is 4eva” or whatever the fuck it is now
But then I go to their front page and it’s like “What does the slowdown in Foo’s heavy industrial sector mean for Bar’s resource exports?”
Is this like, woke The Economist
fuck us, that could work, couldn’t it
OK but Woke The Economist is literally just Marx
It’s owned by The Atlantic and it takes a similar perspective that The Atlantic does, so to some extent it is like a...
That’s the impression I was getting, but that’s a good term for my feeling. woke The Economist
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femmenietzsche said:
I remember when it was just starting out as an Atlantic spinoff and was… normal. So weird when you see a publication finding a niche apparently against the will of its creators like that.