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Somewhere Good

An app wants to be your neighborhood's third space.

interviews Naj Austin, founder and CEO of Somewhere Good. 

Temu haul

Hauling and hoarding.

on the shopping app Temu and a new Dirt investigates query.

Buy low, sell low

AI reader

Is there meaning in the machine-generated?

considers ChatGPT's impact on how we read and write. Read the [first part of the essay here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2023/04/the-ai-writer). 

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BeReal

When novelty fades.

on BeReal’s last-ditch effort at staying relevant. Daisy Alioto shares some thoughts on Bluesky.

BeRelevant

PFP evolution

The profile picture's evolution.

on the prevalence of faces on the social internet and the profile picture's future in Web3. This piece is also published in [issue 1 of Arkive Magazine](https://arkive.net/magazine/evolution-of-the-profile-picture).

The return of avatars

Jenny Holzer's New Corner (2011) at Kukje Gallery in Seoul. (Image by Collin LaFleche)

Jenny Holzer

The human remains the hallmark to emulate.

on reframing the conversation around ChatGPT and AI from threat to tool. The second part of this essay will be published next Friday.

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The AI writer

Narcissus

The struggle to recognize your own face online.

on the uncanny distance between the faces we encounter digitally and our own reflections.

Losing face

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