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Is the Internet Making Culture Worse? by Celine Nguyen
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Pudding.cool's article on the fuckery of women's sizing
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People Turn To 'Manifesting' Because the Economy Fails Them by Lauren Fadiman
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SLOP IS VIOLENCE by Marianne Eloise
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Why Is Everything So Ugly? (The Editors of n+1)
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An article about how cockatoos like dips <3
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Child's Play by Sam Kriss
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Haley Nahman's writing on Substack (one of her best pieces linked)
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David Berman's roast of his evil dad
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Why It’s Taking So Long by Johanna Hedva
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Critical Condition by Natalie Adler
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The Romance of Being Unreadable (Ocean Vuong) by Andrea Long Chu
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Seán Hewitt on The Legend of Zelda
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The Character and Language of Pain
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15 Years Ago, Portlandia Told Portland Who It Was by Matthew Trueherz
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Black Like Me? Bridgerton and the Fantasy of a Non-Racist Past by Gary Younge
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The Perpetual Present-Tense by Rayne Fisher-Quann
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Things I Read That I Love Archives
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These article round-ups reliably contain GEMS.
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On Liking Women by Andrea Long Chu
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (Harvard Business Review)
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Padma Lakshmi's Grub Street Diet
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Everything she eats sounds amazing and I love that she ac...
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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by R.S. Benedict
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Bringing Sexy Back by Kate Wagner
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The Red Hand Files, Issue #248: more Nick Cave on why AI sucks
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The Red Hand Files, Issue #218: Nick Cave on why AI sucks
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AI slop image to illustrate that AI slop sucks
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An Uncomplicated Man by Emily Wilson
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Going Postal by Max Read
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Is social media a manifestation of the death drive? Yeah ...
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Against Access by John Lee Clark
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XXI. On Breakdown by Jamie Hood
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Sharp, funny, real.
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