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#752: To post is to calculate • Plus: otherworlds, cozy lit and VHS rentals
#752: To post is to calculate
Plus: otherworlds, cozy lit and VHS rentals
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#751: Slop recipes and self-made bops • Just happy to be here, in your inbox
#751: Slop recipes and self-made bops
Just happy to be here, in your inbox
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December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#750: Scavenging in the wreckage • Plus: I saw the best memes of my generation destroyed by the onslaught of adulthood
#750: Scavenging in the wreckage
Plus: I saw the best memes of my generation destroyed by the onslaught of adulthood
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#749: The last good thing on Twitter • Plus: independent peer cultures and youth internet grift
#749: The last good thing on Twitter
Plus: independent peer cultures and youth internet grift
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#748: An elaborate Dadaist prank • Plus: Slop politics, subpoenas and Gawker’s Best Restaurant series
#748: An elaborate Dadaist prank
Plus: Slop politics, subpoenas and Gawker’s Best Restaurant series
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#747: "Silence is hated" • Plus: Grokipedia, goons and getting directions
#747: "Silence is hated"
Plus: Grokipedia, goons and getting directions
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#746: Everything is TV but TV is YouTube • Plus: clip culture, chatfishing and Talibros
#746: Everything is TV but TV is YouTube
Plus: clip culture, chatfishing and Talibros
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#745: Prime Daze • Plus: Klarna culture, Trump aesthetics and the joys of location-sharing
#745: Prime Daze
Plus: Klarna culture, Trump aesthetics and the joys of location-sharing
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#744: Life as content • Plus: literacy, Labubu and an antisocial social app
#744: Life as content
Plus: literacy, Labubu and an antisocial social app
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#743: The future is being written by kids who thought 'Black Mirror' was aspirational • Plus: 4chan for women, faerie smut and a TikTok trend I heartily endorse
#743: The future is being written by kids who thought 'Black Mirror' was aspirational
Plus: 4chan for women, faerie smut and a TikTok trend I heartily endorse
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#742: Surveillance culture and MAHA mommy bloggers • Plus assorted other slop, fluff and propaganda
#742: Surveillance culture and MAHA mommy bloggers
Plus assorted other slop, fluff and propaganda
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#741: A slippery thought experiment • Plus em dashes, empaths and TikTok birth control skeptics
#741: A slippery thought experiment
Plus em dashes, empaths and TikTok birth control skeptics
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#740: The gamification of culture • Plus "algorithm movies" and historical nostalgia
#740: The gamification of culture
Plus "algorithm movies" and historical nostalgia
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#739: How information works online now • Plus: the (self-defeating?) quest to sound more human online
#739: How information works online now
Plus: the (self-defeating?) quest to sound more human online
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#738: Teapot tempests and Bayou daddies • Plus the last unyielding vestiges of monoculture
#738: Teapot tempests and Bayou daddies
Plus the last unyielding vestiges of monoculture
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#737: I think we’re allowed to just have fun sometimes? • Plus an alternate theory for why we didn't get a "song of the summer" this year
#737: I think we’re allowed to just have fun sometimes?
Plus an alternate theory for why we didn't get a "song of the summer" this year
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#736: TikTok detectives and viral dupes • Links weekend edition is BACK, baby
#736: TikTok detectives and viral dupes
Links weekend edition is BACK, baby
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Nobody posts online anymore • Call it the revenge of the lurkers
Nobody posts online anymore
Call it the revenge of the lurkers
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The cult of performative hydration • On Stanleys, seltzer, reverse-osmosis, water additives and the regressive charms of luxury wellness
The cult of performative hydration
On Stanleys, seltzer, reverse-osmosis, water additives and the regressive charms of luxury wellness
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
When gamification goes too far • Meet the unrepentant cheaters of Duolingo
When gamification goes too far
Meet the unrepentant cheaters of Duolingo
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How TikTok drives the pop music machine • Without the app, we might not have artists like Benson Boone and Shaboozey
How TikTok drives the pop music machine
Without the app, we might not have artists like Benson Boone and Shaboozey
linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The accidental poetry of Google search • Pull up your Google history and see what it tells you
The accidental poetry of Google search
Pull up your Google history and see what it tells you
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM