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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

Boom and Echo

Boom and echo

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Songs Ojai

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Making babies

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Girls HBO

Everyone loves it (now). 

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The Girls rewatch

Coach Ted Lasso

A new kind of bullshit job.

on the coaching industrial complex, The Idol drama, and Lydia Tár's Twitter. 

Coach, put me in

Forspoken-magic

On particle effects in video games.

on particle effects, video games’ increasingly screen-filling eye candy.

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All that glitters

Fred Social 

Bring the beat in. 

on Fred again, a Berlinale mini-dispatch, and AI DJs.  


Fred again 

Fred again (explained)

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An interview with co-founder Lance Priebe.

interviews the co-founder of Club Penguin.

Club Penguin

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Napoleon Dynamite, the ultimate food porn film.

looks back on the surprising, touching use of (kind of revolting) food in Napoleon Dynamite.

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Tina, eat the food

Naveen Andrews and Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout

An FTX tv show looms.

on FTX, Silicon Valley scammers, and the ascension of "content" as our highest cultural value.

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