So Asterisk dedicates a whole self-aggrandizing issue to California, leaves EV for Obelus (what is Obelus?), starts charging readers, and, worst of all, celebrates low prices for eggs and milk?
Obelus seems to be the organizational name under which Asterisk is registered—both the asterisk and the obelus are punctuation symbols so I highly doubt that Obelus exists separately from Asterisk.
Charging readers is probably an attempt to be financially independent of EV, which is a worthy goal for all EA organizations and especially media organizations that may have good cause to criticize EV at some point.
The eggs and milk quip is just a quip about their new prices; I don’t understand what’s offensive about it.
The California issue is weird to me too.
[Conflict note: writing an article for Asterisk now]
The eggs and milk quip might be offensive on animal welfare reasons. Eggs at least are one of the worst commonly consumed animal products according to various ameliatarian Fermi estimates.
FWIW EV has been off-boarding its projects, so it isn’t surprising that Asterisk is now nested under something else. I don’t know anything about Obelus Inc.
Like Karthik, I don’t really understand what is so terrible about this, but I agree that the California edition is at least strange. It’s interesting how many of the ideas central to EA originate from California. While exploring the origin stories of these ideas is intriguing, I would be much more interested in an issue that explores ideas from far outside that comfort zone and see what they can teach us.
However, I’m not an editor and don’t think I’d make a good one either 😅
Time to cancel my Asterisk subscription?
So Asterisk dedicates a whole self-aggrandizing issue to California, leaves EV for Obelus (what is Obelus?), starts charging readers, and, worst of all, celebrates low prices for eggs and milk?
Obelus seems to be the organizational name under which Asterisk is registered—both the asterisk and the obelus are punctuation symbols so I highly doubt that Obelus exists separately from Asterisk.
Charging readers is probably an attempt to be financially independent of EV, which is a worthy goal for all EA organizations and especially media organizations that may have good cause to criticize EV at some point.
The eggs and milk quip is just a quip about their new prices; I don’t understand what’s offensive about it.
The California issue is weird to me too.
[Conflict note: writing an article for Asterisk now]
The eggs and milk quip might be offensive on animal welfare reasons. Eggs at least are one of the worst commonly consumed animal products according to various ameliatarian Fermi estimates.
I see, fair enough.
If you previously liked the magazine these seem like relatively weak reasons to cancel it.
FWIW EV has been off-boarding its projects, so it isn’t surprising that Asterisk is now nested under something else. I don’t know anything about Obelus Inc.
You should cancel if you think it’s not worth the money. The other reasons seem worse.
Like Karthik, I don’t really understand what is so terrible about this, but I agree that the California edition is at least strange. It’s interesting how many of the ideas central to EA originate from California. While exploring the origin stories of these ideas is intriguing, I would be much more interested in an issue that explores ideas from far outside that comfort zone and see what they can teach us.
However, I’m not an editor and don’t think I’d make a good one either 😅