Cat Zhang, Pitchfork

Whether it is “the vivid detailing in every tune,” her “openness to new media and expertise” 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 prefer it could possibly be launched as we speak, and never just because the 2000s are stylish once more,” Zhang writes.

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic

Warzel’s Galaxy Brain e-newsletter makes the reduce in our weekly roundup lots as a result of his writing on expertise and associated subjects is constantly 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 change into the determine everybody was searching for: a strong man who bought the fantasy that religion within the mixed energy of expertise and the market might change the world while not having a task for the federal government,” Marx writes. “But that collective admiration has solely served to bolster an unaccountable and more and more hostile billionaire. The holes in these future visions, and the hazards of applauding billionaire visionaries, have solely change into more durable to disregard.”