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Card-handling legends like Jason England and Derek DelGaudio lambasted Madison on Facebook, with DelGaudio calling him “the Milo Yiannopoulos of magic.” Memes were created, jokes were made, and Madison loved every second of it. He used it as fuel for his fire.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Jim Goad is the Godfather of the New Right.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

What began as a way for Zuckerberg to harness collegiate misogyny and self-interest has become the fuel for our whole contemporary nightmare, for a world that fundamentally and systematically misrepresents human needs.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Liz Pelly • The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
While the obstruction of taste and the tactic of corrupt personalization may feel like individual problems—users must work harder to identify what they truly like—it also quickly scales up into massive social issues. When millions of consumers are subtly misled and thus ultimately fed what they consume, certain kinds of culture are choked off from
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
But no, I hated the neighborhood. Smugness oozed from its leaves and blossoms. I would watch the privileged children of Park Slope walk to their segregated public school each morning with their BPA-free bento boxes packed with seaweed snacks and feel unreasonable disdain. Not that I was not part of this problem, whatever it was, the class politics
... See moreEmily Witt • Health and Safety: A Breakdown
A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
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In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutte... See more
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