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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,
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“The model of the hotel undergoes a conceptual overhaul and is invested with a new experimental ambition that creates Manhattan's definitive unit of…
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John Herrman’s recent piece about the “junkification” of Amazon is among the latest of many essays observing the internet’s apparent descent into…
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One of the internet’s greatest strengths is also one of its major problems: its ability to commoditize information. Like the long succession of…
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During the pandemic, Lake Tahoe developed a “people problem”—or so a recent Guardian piece argues, describing an “influx of remote workers, second home…
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In December, the Nemesis consultancy published “Max Pain: A Recent History,” a memo that builds upon their early-2020 missive, “The Umami Theory of…
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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…
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With AI discourse proliferating as wildly as the output of the technology itself, I find myself wondering about the historical ratio of content to…
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