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Glossier

Smartphone face for brands.

on DTC companies’ made-for-online branding. Plus, some community Discord inquiries and good links.

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2D branding

Conquered by Clippy

"Assist me deeper."

on 'Conquered by Clippy,' one of the strangest pieces of smut ever put online.

Microsoft Word erotica

Somewhere Good

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

interviews Naj Austin, founder and CEO of Somewhere Good. 

MTV 

Pictures came and broke your heart.

on MTV News, the Writer’s Strike, and remembering Dooce.

Video killed the radio star

Temu haul

Hauling and hoarding.

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

Buy low, sell low

Big wig

Beating Drew Barrymore’s record-breaking hairpiece.

interviews artist Dani Reynolds, who holds the Guinness World Record for world's widest wig.  

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Jennifer Lawrence in No Hard Feelings

The raunchy studio comedy returns.

on the death and rebirth of the crude and the lewd: the R-rated tentpole comedy.

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Rated R

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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