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Life and death at Balthazar

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Live, Laugh, -Love Island- (cover image)

Smooth brains in the villa.

on the questionable pleasures of a post-Brexit Britain’s number-one export: Love Island.

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Live, laugh, 'Love Island'

RadioShack Twitter

You can't escape the horny RadioShack account.

on brand Twitter and the sex inherent in commodity fetishism.

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Cummodity fetishism

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The digital world can be too smooth for comfort.

on designers’ theft of digital textures that better emulate the physical world. He also made this on-theme Dirt logo.

The black market of BlkMarket

A scan of a teenage Ivanka Trump in Teen Vogue. (Instagram/@thankyouatoosa)

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The Amy Astley era.

on her favorite teen magazine and its embrace of nepotism babies, before Gen Z made the term a thing.

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Teen Vogue's "nepo babies"

Illustration by Kyle Knapp

Snap crackle pop.

writes that ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) has returned television back to the revolutionary-adjacent art form that Walter Benjamin saw film being 86 years ago.

Streaming broke TV

John Hinckley Jr. 

Who's afraid of John Hinckley Jr.?

on how to think about the music career of Reagan’s wannabe assassin.

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The no redemption tour

Backrooms

Fighting for the future of The Backrooms.

on a war between world builders and purists on r/creepy (and off).

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Liminal dust-up

Phil Mickelson LIV Golf

The agony and ecstasy of Phil Mickelson.

unpacks the golf drama you didn’t know you cared about.


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LIV laugh love

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