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I ordered a new iMac on Saturday, only to discover that there has been a “fraud hold” on my credit card since around January 2. However, there’s been no fraud — it’s comes from my increasingly eccentric efforts to ignore any communication from corporations, including ones whose services I use.

I get a lot of junk mail from Citibank, my credit card provider, offering me programs that give me discounts on shopping at various stores, or rental cars, or credit reports — or other things I don’t want. I long since started throwing out anything from Citibank that wasn’t clearly a bill. Unfortunately, that also means I threw out a new credit card that was sent to me in December to [...]

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My co-workers and I were filming outside the Apple Store on 5th Avenue yesterday. It was a fake news bit — filming tightly on our actors, though with the Apple Store in the background. About five minutes in, a security guard came over and (politely) asked us to stop filming. Then he corrected himself and said “Well, please don’t film the building.”

We acquiesced, but I was infuriated. The building is outside in a public space. Really public actually: Fifth Avenue and 59th Street of New York Fucking City. They didn’t build it there to be hidden or demure. They WANT it noticed. We weren’t being rude, we [...]

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Just curious — has anyone had their bags searched by the police on the subways ever since they started announcing every five minutes that they might have to search bags?

I accidentally re-read 1984 this week so I’m seeing Big Brother everywhere.

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