Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose
All my preferred brands are in the 'what to buy instead' list (except Made In, who get a positive note for raising comparatively little money and making good things)
Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"it can really only be embraced by people who have suffered the highly specific neurological injury you get by taking an economics degree: an injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power"
Index of Aesthetics
"CARI defines a consumer aesthetic as a visual movement unified by overarching attitudes and themes that survived long enough or became popular enough to be appropriated by capital (a bar that is being lowered constantly as our cycles of cultural propagation accelerate). Aesthetics are grouped here roughly by the time of their peak ubiquity, but many of them have examples to be found well outside that range as each movement spread from avant-garde settings to vernacular use."