Cat Zhang, Pitchfork

Whether it is “the vivid detailing in each song,” her “openness to new media and technology” or initiatives like her Mi.Mu Gloves, Imogen Heap’s work has impressed the likes of A$AP Rocky, Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves. “Heap’s music sounds like it could be released today, and not simply because the 2000s are trendy again,” Zhang writes.

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic

Warzel’s Galaxy Brain e-newsletter makes the reduce in our weekly roundup so much as a result of his writing on expertise and associated matters is persistently on level. This week, he spoke to an ex-Infowars staffer concerning the Alex Jones trial, together with what that work expertise was like and what we are able to do to carry Jones accountable. 

Paris Marx, Time

“Musk has become the figure everyone was looking for: a powerful man who sold the fantasy that faith in the combined power of technology and the market could change the world without needing a role for the government,” Marx writes. “But that collective admiration has only served to bolster an unaccountable and increasingly hostile billionaire. The holes in those future visions, and the dangers of applauding billionaire visionaries, have only become harder to ignore.”