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Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment.

on Frank Ocean at Coachella, Love is Late, and the HBO rebrand.

Bad livestreams

Hogwarts

Video games are in their baroque era.

on the au courant visual style in video games. 

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Going baroque

Rachel Sennott

Spotting online personalities in the movies.

on yet another way social media is eliminating the barriers between different spheres of public life.

All the viral people

Kim Kardashian Variety

No one wants to (watch you) work anymore.

on a cultural shift, as seen on reality television.

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The end of televised hustle 

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investigates the decline of podcast hype. Plus, streaming layoffs and new Lana.

Death of the podcast

Jeremy Strong Succession

On the SUVs, yachts, and helicopters of Succession.

writes in praise of Succession's transport sequences. 

Moving money

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Winner winner (celebrity) chicken dinner.

on Hot Ones and Chicken Shop Date, two crispy kinds of internet talk shows.

A-list mukbang

Caroline Polachek's Desire, I Want To Turn Into You"

Caroline Polachek as Fembot. 

on the ways in which pop star Caroline Polachek uses cyborgian aesthetics to further explore her own humanity. 

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