Month: March 2021
March 4, 2021
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“Nearly two years ago when I wrote one of the earliest features about Substack for the Times, I called it something akin to a new/old social network, a product I…”
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Billie Holiday deserves better
“B efore the tragedies of Britney Spears or Whitney Houston, there was Billie Holiday. There’s a cruel blueprint to the way American society treats many of its…”
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Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future
“This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here . If you like it and want more like it in…”
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The short-term, middle-term, and long-term future of the coronavirus
“W hen experts envision the future of the coronavirus, many predict that it will become a seasonal pathogen that won’t be much more than a nuisance for most of…”
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“Looking closely at dang near anything might very well be the key to it all. 1 With that in mind, I’ve been trying to get better at this, this deceptively simple…”
March 3, 2021
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Lorraine O’Grady Finally Has the World’s Attention
“Photo: Hassan Hajjaj for New York Magazine. Photo assistance by Martei Korley. On a very hot day in September 1983, the artist Lorraine O’Grady dressed in all…”
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The story of ‘Drake’s plate’, the biggest hoax in Calif. history
“This was nice. But Shinn decided it would be even nicer to roll rocks down the steep incline. As he searched the ground for rocks, he noticed a flat metal…”
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What Every Heart Emoji Really Means
“Questions about heart emojis are very common, and this makes a lot of sense. No-one wants to be accused of giving the wrong impression, nor step over some kind…”
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“Advertising has replaced product recommendations and personalization on Amazon and other retailers’ websites. They are no longer trying to guide product…”