19 Apr 21 Monday Briefing

A roundup of five things I found interesting in the past week

1. What does Freud have to do with the layers of Rome? Most fascinating Rabbithole Read™ (my term) this week.

2. Remember the Britney documentary from a couple months back? Well, this time it's Vanessa Carlton, not as huge as Britney, but certainly a star in the early aughts. Talk about a walk down musical memory lane.

3. In equal parts hysterical and terrifying because this could well be the future of work.

4. Somehow this sort of cockwomble assclown can still be seen as patriots by some segments of society instead of the terrorists that they are. That said, the storied history of American rebellion began with militias.

5. And more about the Roman Empire, but about its fall and how it shaped the world as we know it.