“Ayo momma’s gonna make this a bop.”
In collaboration with TMN favorite The Pudding, a mini-doc on what happens to music artists after they go viral on TikTok. (Forty-six percent of a studied group received major label deals.)
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American artist Garrett Pruter is removing all of the birds from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
American artist Garrett Pruter is removing all of the birds from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
↩︎ Trafalgar Avenue
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Devin Coldewey: Can we please have dumber cars that focus on letting the driver drive.
Devin Coldewey: Can we please have dumber cars that focus on letting the driver drive.
↩︎ TechCrunch
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Americans who catch Covid-19 abroad are using a backdoor to get home: flying to Canada or Mexico, then crossing a land border.
Americans who catch Covid-19 abroad are using a backdoor to get home: flying to Canada or Mexico, then crossing a land border.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Photography originally seemed like a Rosetta stone to perceiving color objectively, but “turned out to be a red herring.”
Photography originally seemed like a Rosetta stone to perceiving color objectively, but “turned out to be a red herring.”
↩︎ Lapham’s …
An excellent essay on poverty and writing by Starr Davis.
In the middle of my imagination, I am a girl who will always be homeless, but in reality, I am an educated Black woman who rents an apartment in Downtown Columbus. Trying to outrun poverty has cost me a piece of my soul.
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Ted Gioia’s 14 warning signs that you’re living in a society that lacks a counterculture.
The banal word ‘content’ is used to describe every type of creative work, implying that artistry is generic and interchangeable…. The experts who ‘explain’ the culture to us all seem to be inside…
Seven varieties of stupidity, explained. “The tool or platform we’re using can keep us stupid, even when we’re smart.”
Seven varieties of stupidity, explained. “The tool or platform we’re using can keep us stupid, even when we’re smart.”
↩︎ The Ruffian
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“I’d say this one is probably on purpose.” A bit of code searches academic papers for obscene words hidden in their titles.
“I’d say this one is probably on purpose.” A bit of code searches academic papers for obscene words hidden in their titles.
↩︎ Rob Manuel, fuck yeah!
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