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Not Boring by Packy McCormick | Substack
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The decision about where to stay was simple. His pal from Austin, René Pinnell, who now lived in San Francisco, and his girlfriend, Selena, offered up a spare room in their small but welcoming apartment.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Belong Anywhere,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
overwhelmingly passive.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
One such curator is Derrick Gee, a former online radio d.j. who lives in Australia. I first encountered Gee on TikTok and was pulled in by his architect-ish look: thin wireframe glasses and stylishly baggy, often monochrome outfits. He records videos of himself talking into a microphone in a low, soothing voice, breaking down trends in contemporary... See more
Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
It was as if you could buy only the books that appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, but the list was operated by an untrustworthy company, one solely devoted to treating books as fungible objects to be offloaded as quickly as possible.