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Criticism of Spotify has traditionally focused on its poor economics for artists and its flattening of music taste (read Liz Pelly’s excellent Baffler series for the best of both categories). In the past month, however, the company has opened up two new fronts against its haters,
Drew Austin
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Manhattan Hotel Futurism
“The model of the hotel undergoes a conceptual overhaul and is invested with a new experimental ambition that creates Manhattan's definitive unit of…
Drew Austin
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Speak No Evil
John Herrman’s recent piece about the “junkification” of Amazon is among the latest of many essays observing the internet’s apparent descent into…
Drew Austin
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All That Is Air Melts into Air
One of the internet’s greatest strengths is also one of its major problems: its ability to commoditize information. Like the long succession of…
Drew Austin
Feb 24
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Dub Housing
During the pandemic, Lake Tahoe developed a “people problem”—or so a recent Guardian piece argues, describing an “influx of remote workers, second home…
Drew Austin
Feb 17
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The Culture of Cope
In December, the Nemesis consultancy published “Max Pain: A Recent History,” a memo that builds upon their early-2020 missive, “The Umami Theory of…
Drew Austin
Feb 10
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#200: All Tomorrow's Parties
Among Glenn O’Brien’s many incisive aphorisms, his assertion that “parties are work” has always stuck with me. O’Brien claimed to have learned this from…
Drew Austin
Feb 4
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Goodbye Horses
With AI discourse proliferating as wildly as the output of the technology itself, I find myself wondering about the historical ratio of content to…
Drew Austin
Feb 1
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