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She’s making a point, but I’m distracted by Gus from the firehouse standing on a table, whipping his shirt over his head to a Backstreet Boys song. Mabel, his girlfriend, is sitting at one of the seats below him like absolutely nothing is amiss, calmly sipping a mug of cider. I guess she’s used to that sort of behavior from him.
B.K. Borison • Business Casual (Lovelight Book 4)
Source: The A.V. Club
Watch The Avengers re-assemble to record The Avengers in Lakota
Like the Depp-Heard coverage, the forces that Sacasas describes can be deeply cynical and destructive. They’re also almost always exhausting for those of us consuming them.
The Atlantic • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
I would wager that the most common goal of a Substack writer is to accumulate enough paid subscribers that they can quit their day job and write for themselves full time. It says as much in the Notes announcement. For any writer on here, that would obviously be great, but that’s not how social media companies set things up to work, and despite the
... See moreCydney Hayes • The Elite Capture of Substack
digital nomads”—people
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
When I asked what, exactly, they thought made someone a promising Substack writer, Best turned to McKenzie and asked, in a jokey hush, “Do we keep the Baschez score a secret?” McKenzie laughed. They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their ... See more