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1. Is it just me or is this Emmanuel Macron video asking American engineers concerned about climate change to work in France kinda seductive? I can't get his good looks but I gotta learn how to talk in these dulcet tones, lol.

2. Great essay on F. Scott Fitzgerald.. It's nice to see that, away from social media frenzies and clickbait, there is still some great writing out there. “Fitzgerald is less the heir of Veblen, perhaps, than of Marx, who described the fetishizing of commodities… Marx was being satirical, but so is Fitzgerald when Gatsby gives Daisy a tour of his mansion and begins pulling his tailored clothing from ‘two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-​gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.’ Daisy is overwhelmed with emotion. ‘“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”’”