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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Novel as meme page

The writer as curator.

on novel-specific moodboards, playlists, and Instagram meme pages.

Midjourney girls

It can't do hands.

on the copious number of fingers in the uncanny valley.

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AI's art school problem

Layoff Vlogs

Just another day in the life.

on tech layoff vlogs, AI-generated Buzzfeed quizzes, and blonde discourse.

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Royal scents are more common than you think. 

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Pure and simple

Joan Didion

Portrait of the writer as an exhibit.

on the Joan Didion “retrospective” at the Los Angeles-based Hammer Museum.

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What Joan Didion means

Recession indicators

Some non-economic theories. 📉

on cultural recession indicators, Timothée Chalamet’s Apple ad, and the theory of “max pain.”

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Lead us out of IP myopia. 

in conversation with Kold Open’s Georgia Rippin.

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On the web series

TikTok heat

Dead podcasts, bland buildings, new injections.

helms our dispatch, a running recap of the latest digital culture news. This week: TikTok gets heat for its “heating” tool; "old man" TV; and a Dirt-y sourcing request on podcast listening habits.


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