"It's not just food" was the marketing strapline for a mid-high-end supermarket in my childhood; on reflection, this gives away the implicit message in all branding — that the advertised product has specific magical properties in addition to those contained in its typical "use value."

Musicians are rightly angry with Spotify et al., but the uncomfortable truth is that listening to recorded music (rather than singing your own songs) is an alienated cultural activity that we might all be better off without.

The need for palette cleansers in music: lush ambient soundscapes need to be paired with sparse dissonance and vice versa.

Apparently the stage after "late-stage capitalism" is "clown-car capitalism" #musk #trump

Look at all the muscles in the neck - quite impressive and haunting that we carry this architecture around with us all the time

This text is an excerpt of a BBC News article about an Italian influencer. So many curious linkages of words when you decontextualise it.
#writing #linguistics