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The lack of a diversity in GIRLS launched a thousand thinkpieces. One thing I always thought was behind the resentment a certain kind of woman of colour writer had for Dunham: the freedom she had to lovingly savage her own milieu, to poke fun without the burden of representation.
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this week in THE CRITICS newsletter @NYMag, some oscars counterprogramming: i spoke to @JDavidsonNYC about the met's new production of a five-hour wagner opera. i WILL be going
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“The world is dumber, and we all know it,” Lane Brown writes. It’s not just that children have been bombing their standardized tests or that more than a quarter of U.S. adults now read at the lowest proficiency level. It’s also that in nearly all aspects of life, we’re opting for routines, entertainment, and entire belief systems that ask less and less of our brains. For our Cover Story, Brown writes about our recent cognitive diminishment — and proposes a counter-intuitive theory of what’s causing it: nymag.visitlink.me/VEMvwP
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i wrote about cuomo's AI slop for @NYMag's big dummy issue :) vulture.com/article/dumbest-…
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“I hate all these stories about Condé Nast,” New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells writer Madeline Leung Coleman. “It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar.’ vulture.com/article/susan-or…
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"I hate all these stories about Condé Nast! It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar." I profiled Susan Orlean, whose first memoir, Joyride, is out today @NYMag
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From me, on my employer (along with many other media companies) licensing content to OpenAI vox.com/technology/352849/op…
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I’ve been disgusted to see my friend Frances lose her coaching contract for our local tennis courts to a business-brained leech whose growing fiefdom already includes three public courts across the city. Thankful to @cliomiso for taking on this story curbed.com/article/tennis-co…
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What happens when a beloved local tennis coach gets replaced by the highest bidder? Something like 'There goes the neighborhood' - @cliomiso reports on the high-stakes drama at the Jackie Robinson courts in Bed-Stuy curbed.com/article/tennis-co…
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In the mag this week, @LaneBrown and I, plus a bunch of other people. came up with the New Rules of Hollywood Stardom. If you like a blurb, that means I wrote it; if you didn't, it was someone else! vulture.com/article/how-to-b…
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