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Philadelphiatheculturejournalist.substack.comJoined February 2009

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Jul 26, 2022

IMPORTANT BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT The Culture Journalist is back from a brief hiatus today with a guest we've been wanting to interview for forever: the one and only Max Collins from Eve 6, aka the "Heart in a Blender Guy," aka

@eve6

journalist

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drew millard

@drewmillard

Feb 2

im so bad at 'marketing my substack' but this post spells the ideals to which i aspire

we are proud to announce we have adopted the "ceo grindset"

jewels from my mind palace, vol. ii

🚨new

ep 🚨 dark finance edition 📉 This episode has everything: Chuck E. Cheese! Devo! The Metaverse! And the predatory practice of leveraged buyouts, an invisible hand w/such a vast chokehold on American society you prob have barely heard of it

The politics of this list are... occasionally a bit strange (in a section on work)

Feb 3

Excited to unveil the first-ever private equity-themed episode of the pod, with Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman &

' Lauren Boyle We discuss how leveraged buyouts funnel capital away from companies and workers and into the coffers of the corporate overclass!

Why everything is getting worse all the time, with DIS

Filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and DIS co-founder Lauren Boyle discuss leveraged buyouts and their vampiric effects on society

THE CULTURE JOURNALIST, "FINANCE EDITION"

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The Culture Journalist

Feb 3

NEW POD ALERT

We brought on Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and @dis' Lauren Boyle to discuss why consumer experiences are always getting crappier, jobs are becoming increasingly precarious, and workers are constantly being asked to do more more with less. theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/syzygy-lever

Feb 3

Also such a pleasure to speak to Lauren about the work

has been doing supporting artists and filmmakers and carving out a space for the sort of deep thinking that goes against the incentives of algorithmic media. We are lucky that this resource exists!

The occasion for this, of course, is Jacob's excellent short documentary for

Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

called 'Syzygy,' which was inspired, of all things, by the story of Chuck E. Cheese and Meta's 2022 super bowl ad and absolutely blew us away when we saw it

dis.art

dis / Syzygy

Excited to unveil the first-ever private equity-themed episode of the pod, with Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman &

' Lauren Boyle We discuss how leveraged buyouts funnel capital away from companies and workers and into the coffers of the corporate overclass!

Why everything is getting worse all the time, with DIS

Filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and DIS co-founder Lauren Boyle discuss leveraged buyouts and their vampiric effects on society

There is no song that I associate more with the idea of being young and cool and weird in New York (and for some reason, walking down avenue B, where it still never fails to pop into my head). RIP Tom Verlaine.

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Television - Marquee Moon

Television - Marquee Moon [1977]

WSJ News Exclusive | BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content

Jan 28

At the same time, what seems lost in the discussion around this article is that they seem to be using this primarily for quizzes, an area where they have known to rely on "fan-generated content" (ie, unpaid content creation) in the past

Assuming the stock price rallied at this news bc integrating AI implies "saving money on labor" (dark!) but the extremely silly thing is that AI-assisted written content is so factually unreliable it's likely to require more editors to make it publishable

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CEO Jonah Peretti said the publisher would use the technology to make more comprehensive quizzes and interactive content.

The Culture Journalist

Jan 27

NEW OFFLINE RECS JUST DROPPED, FT. THE ONE AND ONLY

@daisandconfused

!! We discussed: —Hoka hiking boots —

@delia_cai

's new book, 'Central Places' —Scottish noir —

@dirtyverse

's collaborative membership badge with

@earlymajority

Offline Recs: Daisy Alioto

Scottish noir, Gorpcore hiking boots, and other hot picks from the CEO of DIRT, aka "'The Village Voice' of the internet"

drew millard

@drewmillard

Jan 27

honestly never realized that listening to someone be like "hey here's some stuff i like" would be so fun and yet! twitter.com/daisandconfuse

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The divine comedy of network states.

Jan 27

Also here is the her piece on Užupis. (Hint: It's also sort of a review/critique of Balaji Srinivasan’s The Network State)

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No Embassy

Recording this was honestly such a treat. Thank you

We recorded a "mini pod" with

@daisandconfused

about her latest culture obsessions (Hoka hiking boots! Scottish noir!),

@dirtyverse

's new take on the magazine subscription model, and The Republic of Užupis, a 7000-person micronation she wrote ab for DIRT

Offline Recs: Daisy Alioto

Scottish noir, Gorpcore hiking boots, and other hot picks from the CEO of DIRT, aka "'The Village Voice' of the internet"

mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot

UNICORN RIOT

@UR_Ninja

Jan 26

We are #LIVE from #Philadelphia covering an apparent public community meeting about new redevelopment plans for FDR Park in South Philly hosted by the authors of the plan. Residents who planned to speak against the redevelopment are not being allowed in.

UNICORN RIOT

mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot

@UR_Ninja

Opponents of Philly FDR Park Development Speak Out

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Thanks for having me

🌱

Offline Recs: Daisy Alioto

Scottish noir, Gorpcore hiking boots, and other hot picks from the CEO of DIRT, aka "'The Village Voice' of the internet"

Brooklyn will always be my heart, but lately the 76ers theme song has become my love language

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1 2 3 4 5 SIXERS! Philadelphia 76ers Oldschool Anthem

Made for my final project for flash class. Feel free to pass it on and share the sixers love.

Nick Statt

@nickstatt

Jan 24

Break-even media businesses owned by writers & editors (or worker cooperatives with flat management & profit sharing, etc.) might truly be the path forward out of the private equity / for-profit hellscape that we now find ourselves in. twitter.com/Vahn16/status/

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Jan 24

the weird thing about tech cratering at the same time as journalism is that people are no longer telling journalists to "learn to code"

Jan 21

"We call it the mainstream, but it's the stream. What we have to do as artists and writers and thinkers is get out of the stream, find the tide pools where weird little things are growing." One of many gems from our convo with

Psychoanalyzing the escape fantasies of Silicon Valley oligarchs, with Douglas Rushkoff

Jan 20

The thing that makes media layoffs even more demoralizing than they already are is how companies always try assure everyone that they will magically be able to continue producing the same quality journalism with fewer people/resources. This is simply not true

A new season of The Culture Journalist is here! We spoke to

about bunkers, island micronations, Mars colonies, and something he is calling "The Mindset" — a perfect shorthand for the "extract and escape" strategy of the libertarian techno elite

Psychoanalyzing the escape fantasies of Silicon Valley oligarchs, with Douglas Rushkoff

douglas rushkoff

Culture Journalist is the best. I'm so proud to be on their radar.

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Calamity Dre

@AndreaDomanick

We’re baaAAAaaack! S4 starting off spicy with a dive into the escape fantasies of tech billionaires w genius @rushkoff twitter.com/AdHocEmilie/st…

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I told Drew he shouldn't use this headline, but this is a good piece about two of our favorite conversation topics: leveraged buyouts and Joel Embiid

i am famously a writer about finance, and also the nba

i should have written a better headline but i've gotta go walk the dog

Ok, Jose

@JoseRMejia

I cannot wait to dive into this

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Kicking off our 2023 season in style, if I do say so myself

Psychoanalyzing the escape fantasies of Silicon Valley oligarchs, with Douglas Rushkoff

Calamity Dre

@AndreaDomanick

We’re baaAAAaaack! S4 starting off spicy with a dive into the escape fantasies of tech billionaires w genius

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Been a fan of

's work since I was a wee aspiring culture journalist interning for Arthur magazine (RIP), so it means a lot to have him on the show!

I also highly recommend that you check out

Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Kirkus and Literary Hub The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind., Survival of the Richest, Escape...

's excellent new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, which I could not put down

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Survival of the Richest

Also covered: interest-backed currencies, the rise of scientism in the era of Francis Bacon, and a fun story about Timothy Leary and his theory that tech bros are using technology to recreate the experience of the womb

A new season of The Culture Journalist is here! We spoke to

about bunkers, island micronations, Mars colonies, and something he is calling "The Mindset" — a perfect shorthand for the "extract and escape" strategy of the libertarian techno elite

Psychoanalyzing the escape fantasies of Silicon Valley oligarchs, with Douglas Rushkoff

As someone who frequently edited Drew's work back when I was still at VICE, I can say he is wonderful to work with and you should hire him!

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Drew Schwartz

@drewjschwartz

I just got laid off for the second time in six months (lol), and I'm looking for work! Editors: I'd love to freelance for you. I'm also on the hunt for a full-time editing and/or writing gig. If you'd like to get in touch, shoot me an email at drewjosephschwartz[at]gmail[dot]com

Rick Paulas

@realrickpaulas

Jan 15

I want to make it clear: you are a morally better person if you live in, not just visit, New York City. It makes you literally better than people who live somewhere else.

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Dirt

@dirtyverse

Welcome to the new Dirtyverse! Today we are debuting our publishing platform as well as paid subscriptions. 🧵

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ruby justice

@being_on_line

ESSAY 1/12 I've been a member of the Facebook group "furry art under 20$" for the last five years. When NFTs started to gain traction, a thought creeped in my head, what was this new technology enabling exactly?

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On Furries and the Limits of Trustlessness

"The furries have been selling unique digital art and building communities online for the past 20 years, without needing to outsource the trust to non-human agents in the form of blockchains." A fascinating cyber ethnography from @being_on_line fwb.help/editorial/on-f

Furries have traded unique digital artworks for years, without relying on blockchains. Crypto communities can learn from their emphasis on trust and mutual care.

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