Kneeling Bus
Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times this week about the waning of what he calls the “millennial lifestyle subsidy,” an arrangement that has enabled consumers to enjoy a cornucopia of app-enabled luxuries for significantly less than their true cost. Funded by vent…
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In the early 1940s, essayist Joseph Mitchell spent more than a year in pursuit of an eccentric New York character named Joe Gould, “a blithe and emacia…
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The CEO of Redfin posted a great thread this week about how weird the US housing market is right now, starting with this anecdote:
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My favorite Twitter account is @EvanCollins90, a design researcher who compiles images that represent visual aesthetic trends from the recent past (he …
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Energy consumption currently sits at the nexus of the tech industry’s two main focal points, climate change and cryptocurrency. The former is largely a…
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Long before the pandemic started but especially during it, “stuff” has seemed to inexorably fill up any domestic space we make available for it, almost…
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In recent months—probably sometime during the winter—I started noticing that the internet felt crowded, the first time I can recall truly feeling that …
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This week I wrote an essay for Real Life about the creator economy, the ongoing monetization of the web, and the speculative tendencies that are unleas…
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