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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

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On particle effects in video games.

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

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All that glitters

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A premint opportunity.

announce how to enter the raffle to mint Monica Rizzolli's latest edition. 

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Remembrance of Things Future

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TikTok vs. chatbots

The future of search

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Magazines are the original creator economy, so why is nobody talking about them?

on the forthcoming Taste Economy. Terry Nguyen compiles links from the dirtyverse. 

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The Taste Economy

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George Lois predicted the present. 

on how current fashion trends rely on conceptualism rather than craft. 

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The idea is the design 

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The pursuit of vanity.

on the Ozempic craze, the next wave of “collective” social media platforms, and the end of *Succession*.


Miracle pills

Alice in Wonderland eating a mushroom 

On the pleasures of growing psilocybin mushrooms.

Shrooming

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