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The Novelist Jordan Castro

The author lives (especially on TikTok).

on Jordan Castro’s The Novelist and a reader’s need to identify with their favorite authors.

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'The Novelist' is anti-autofiction

High-Design See-Through Speakers

From Transparent to Pioneer to Harman Kardon and Apple, the clear speaker lives on.

on the lineage of see-through audio products.

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The High-Design Speakers You Can See Through

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NFTs worth paying attention to.

[Kyle](https://x.com/chaykak) and [Osirene](https://twitter.com/osirene_) recap the new web3 projects you need to know, even if you’re not buying into them.

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Good mints

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Hearts are meaningless.

on what we talk about when we talk about likes.

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Like inflation

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Shitposting is the perfect medium for British political commentary.

writes from London after the resignation of PM Boris Johnson.

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Bursting the Westminster bubble

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

Moderan

The existential anxieties of an empire that finally understood it could die.

on a midcentury warning from David R. Bunch.

The future is Moderan

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