Is Farhad the Person of the Year?

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There are many moments for this, but i feel like i really kind of felt that like cognitive dissidence or whatever. With farhad, there is a dope innocence, and he's not stupid either. But there is a hum quality to everything he writes. Fore i'm like, it's almost offensive, cause it feels like a man's intellect in a baby. I say this to some one who havent been very friendly with fir and he's cool. He's like a good bloke. But then he'll write something for him, like, what the fuck. Are you talking about me? What's going on?"

Paris Marx is joined by Ed Zitron for a wide-ranging discussion on the responsibility tech media has to its readers, the problems with crypto, and why bosses like Elon Musk are desperate to force workers back into the office.

Ed Zitron is the CEO of EZPR and writes the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Follow Ed on Twitter at @edzitron.

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In March, Kevin Roose wrote a Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto, and Ed was one of the critics that Molly White got to contribute to an edited version.
Sam Harnett wrote an essay on how the early, uncritical coverage of the gig economy helped legitimize its exploitative business model.