C. Tangana may be a rapper, but on his latest drop, the strongest hint of hip hop is in the light electronic beat laid over what’s otherwise a very chill bossa. Singing about desire, C’s soft voice spins up tension so thick you could cut it with a knife (a metaphor you’ll see played out thoroughly in the”Comerte Entera” video), without even the slightest crescendo. The means couldn’t be further from the ends and that in itself equals intrigue. Listen here.

You know the vaccine rollout is going badly, and evidently Washington State is feeling so inept that they’ve enlisted Starbucks to ease the logistics. Think about it: Starbucks has spent years honing the ability to get you through the line and out the door with a drug (caffeine) in your arm (hand). They know where to set up so everyone can find them, and they’ve even set up a system to let them know you’re coming. It is not dumb to contract them to combat a public health crisis; it’s just embarrassing. (What’s even more embarrassing is that they haven’t thought about a free-coffee-with-your-inoculation campaign—what’s a better incentive than “shot for a shot”?)

Did you know that Covid almost wiped out this year’s slate of new emojis? Disruptions in the spring evidently pushed back the timeline enough that the new symbols couldn’t be finished before 2022. Knowing that the world WILL end without an annual crop of digital hieroglyphs, the Unicode Consortium cobbled together some code from old emojis to make some new ones that we can have this year, goddamnit. And because these new symbols are made of pre-existing code, they aren’t going to have the usual problem of not rendering on older operating systems— which means, no matter how old your phone is, you get the same linguistic access as everyone else. [This is where I’d put the bandaged heart emoji if it had been released by now. You win some, you lose some.]

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