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Rip Florida oranges, subject of the best book ever written about a particular fruit

alex sammon@alex_sammon
Orange production in Florida has collapsed over 95% in less than 25 years. 100% of trees are now infected with a disease officially deemed “incurable.” Who killed the Florida orange? My investigation, in @slate, into the lost empire of the old citrus state.
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@SamAdlerBell What novels would you recommend for this kind of feeling?
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adults are supposed to reckon with this feeling — the sense that the world was whole, sensible, and suffused with meaning in childhood and no longer is — by reading novels and thinking about death and cultivating some irony about life. I suspect these guys don't do those things.
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"
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@tnyfrontrow Your review of In Jackson Heights got me to watch the film, and it changed my life. Thank you.
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This is great. There should be a place for music theory in music criticism. So often, the emotional effect of a pop song depends on its composition prompting the ear to expect something, and then subverting that expectation in different ways. Theory illuminates this.
Andy Cush@cushac
I've wanted to do this for a while: technical writing about songs (naming chords, &c) that is legible to non-technical readers, put together with more broadly interpretive criticism in hopes of getting to a deeper understanding of what the music is doing hearingthings.co/the-psychologi…
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On this first day of the Mamdani era, may I recommend 2015's In Jackson Heights, a film about, among other things, immigration, policing, gentrification, religion, lgbtq rights, community organizing, the world cup, real estate capital, local governance, and taxi cab drivers.
Eli@Eli_Maskin
Happy 96th birthday to our greatest living artist
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