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

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

charli's substack

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.

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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

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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

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

Magic Internet Money

Fashion is not cool anymore

Choosing Kindness

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Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

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

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

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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™"

palantirmouseketeer

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?

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

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Narrative Distillation - kwokchain

How the NBA lost its cool

Copying a Carhartt Jacket

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whimsy and the literacy crisis

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The Stupid Report — A Study of Human Intelligence

Against the dark forest

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