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As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a blogger
I did not grow up on Vanity Fair, or Esquire, or any of those lurid, mostly fabricated 9,000 word Playboy interviews with, like, James Caan. My parents…
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Professional Writer?
Last summer, I wrote a story for, let's say, a mid-tier Hearst magazine about "survival influencers." Basically, there is a small sect of YouTubers…
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Posting through it one last time
I've been on Twitter for my entire adult life. The @Luke_Winkie account was created in 2009, during a languid computer lab session in high school…
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Did the campus free-speech people actually go to college?
It is weird that we have spent this much time talking about campus free speech. The germ of the discourse dates back to the early aftershocks of the…
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Nothing to lose but our Musk
To be clear: It is definitely bad that Elon Musk owns Twitter now. The reasons for this are numerous and exist on a wide gradient of urgency. It's…
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Twilight of the Good, Bad Columnists
There's this Guardian columnist who occasionally pops up in my timeline named Adrian Chiles. I do not know much about him, other than that he used to…
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Becoming Wordle Man
On January 7, I published a story about Wordle in the Slate culture section. It's about 1,200 words long and took a morning to write. I'm not sure if I…
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