{"id":252412,"date":"2022-08-16T02:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252412"},"modified":"2022-08-16T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:10:06","slug":"the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/16\/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places\/","title":{"rendered":"The Money Is In All The Wrong Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: This is a version of my personal newsletter, which I send out via Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. You can see other issues&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/when-the-going-gets-weird.ghost.io\/\">and sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two weeks ago, Sydney Sweeney was on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. The accompanying profile was full of glamorous photos, as is the custom. In the story that ran under and around those images, Sweeney <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places\/\">talked about how frustrating it has been<\/a> for her to watch nepotism babies breezily enter an industry she fought to be in, and how Hollywood doesn\u2019t encourage loyalty, and how she still feels somewhat financially insecure. This, as you can imagine, created swift and immediate backlash\u2014against Sweeney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"320\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2022-08-08-at-106644967551218636566.png?resize=525%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252418\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dave Karpf on the problems with &#8220;longterm-ism&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longtermist philosopher William MacAskill has a book coming out soon, and he\u2019s been on quite the media blitz. You can read an adapted excerpt here, in the New York Times, or read his Time Magazine cover story, or his Foreign Affairs article or listen to Ezra Klein interview him, or read Gideon Lewis-Kraus\u2019s in-depth profile in the New Yorker. But <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/672568-dave-karpf\">Dave Karpf, a professor from George Washington University, says<\/a>: &#8220;There\u2019s something deeply troubling about Longtermism. I don\u2019t mind it as a philosophical thought-experiment, but it has adopted the trappings of a social movement (one that is remarkably popular with rich technologists like Elon Musk), and we ought to ask some hard questions about who is promoting it and what it ultimately aims to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Masters of the Guitar do &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les Maestros de la Guitarra, a Barcelona musical group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=olHI-y3bDaM\">do an amazing acoustic version<\/a> of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Billie Jean,&#8221; with all four of them playing the guitar at the same time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barcelona Guitar Trio &amp; Dance - Billie Jean (Homenaje a Paco de Luc\u00eda) New version\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/olHI-y3bDaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On TikTok, Election Misinfo Thrives Ahead of Midterms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the midterm elections this fall, TikTok is shaping up to be a primary <a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3dq6Q1c\">incubator of baseless and misleading information<\/a>, in many ways as problematic as Facebook and Twitter, say researchers who track online falsehoods. The same qualities that allow TikTok to fuel viral dance fads \u2014 the platform\u2019s enormous reach, the short length of its videos, its powerful but poorly understood recommendation algorithm \u2014 can also make inaccurate claims difficult to contain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"362\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot_20220815-211737_nytimes6215348663973085544.jpg?resize=525%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252416\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Science Confirms That Depression Is Complicated<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you really blame your sadness on your serotonin levels? Recent research says \u201cprobably not.\u201d While the public has been led to believe that depression is due to an \u201cimbalance\u201d of one or more chemicals in the brain, a paper in the journal Molecular Psychology <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/167367\/depression-serotonin-chemical-imbalance\">says the evidence for serotonin just isn\u2019t there<\/a>. Of course, an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but neuroscientists have been testing the serotonin hypothesis\u2014which proposes that a deficiency of serotonin is a cause of depression\u2014for almost 60 years, apparently with little to show for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"350\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/c8232d4075eeaa4897131c17e460b30e35e250062275636326291788131.jpeg?resize=525%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252417\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Planet of the Bored Apes: Inside the biggest NFT success story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evening of February 4, business partners Greg Solano, 33, and Wylie Aronow, 35, were at their respective homes with their significant others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/features\/bored-ape-yacht-club-greg-solano-wylie-aronow-profile\">when they got some alarming news<\/a>. They had just learned that BuzzFeed News was going to publish a story revealing their identities \u2014 heretofore carefully hidden, or so they thought \u2014 to the wider world. \u201cWe got 20 minutes warning,\u201d Solano recalls, speaking earlier this month at a hotel in downtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"922\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/17ca1b19-9075-433b-9180-12adf0d8613d-header_design_98556387783263795788.jpg?resize=525%2C922&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252419\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An underwater fashion show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/womengrom\/status\/1559055802685587459?t=dgK_5un2IFE03BZCkhRZxQ&#038;s=19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This is a version of my personal newsletter, which I send out via Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. You can see other issues&nbsp;and sign up here. Two weeks ago, Sydney Sweeney was on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. The accompanying profile was full of glamorous photos, as is the custom. In the story &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/16\/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Money Is In All The Wrong Places&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}