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I smoked every Chinese cigarette so you don't have to (DO NOT DO IT)

Dissociations

The Monolith

Body Futurism

Maison Margiela Opens the Folders — and It Changes How We Look at Fashion

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How Complex Systems Fail

Too many places are STERILE and TORCHED — let’s make them COOL and FUNKY

Quit Optimizing for Algorithms. Make Something Weird.

The Vulgar Image by Dean Kissick

Hito Steyerl: Art, Automation and Authoritarianism | Doomscroll

Money Is Not Our God

Why am I filled with nostalgia for a pre-internet age I never knew? | Isabel Brooks

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

The internet is dying on the outside but growing on the inside

Magic Internet Money

Fashion is not cool anymore

Choosing Kindness

Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

Why Casually Posting on Social Media Has Become a Thing of the Past

Degeneracy is a Symptom

If the leisure class signals its position by visible expenditure on nothing, by the conspicuous enactment of having transcended productive work, then what does the excluded class do? What does the class signal when it has also transcended productive work, but in the opposite dire

Bootlegging in the Deepfake Era with David Rudnick, Reggie James and Emily Segal

Worldview machines - by SHAIYAN - Pay Attention

I Used AI to Make a Video That Sucks

No one is bored and everything is boring

Better Than Free

The New Hong Kong Underground

Trying to Predict Impact Often Prevents the Highest Impact

The Laboratory and the Artist - Cleveland Review of Books

How Long Gone Today: March 24, 2026

New Institutions Roundtable

Lil Internet: :::Feel the Future:::

YOU DON'T ACTUALLY LIKE THE BAND "GEESE™"

This email is an instrument

Machine Decision is Not Final

Catherine Liu: I Live in the Future

Diana Kozachek: Synthoscene, Chongqing

Halloween on the internet, circa 1996

Art YouTube: A Genealogy | Spike Art Magazine

Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?

Sophie Wang

Why I Deleted My Second Brain: A Journey Back to Real Thinking

The breaking of the world — The Ideaspace

Narrative Distillation - kwokchain

How the NBA lost its cool

Copying a Carhartt Jacket

whimsy and the literacy crisis

taste.md

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