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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November 2022

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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September 2022

This isn't a Try Guys explainer. I would never do that to you within the sanctity of On Posting. But you are going to need to grasp the basic principles…

July 2022

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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April 2022

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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March 2022

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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February 2022

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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December 2021

I've learned to organize my perception of time by the PR blasts that appear in my inbox. The way I see it, there have been three distinct questionable…

October 2021

Every day, people ask Jensen Karp if he finally figured out what was going on with the shrimp in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I know this because I search…
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September 2021

It should be impossible to read Spin in 2021. The URL should either redirect to an elegiac 404, or a tasteful archive of the magazine's glory years. No…
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June 2021

June will be my best month of 2021. I don't keep a ledger — I usually only discover how much money I made each year after adding up all the numbers in…
I used to follow Eve Barlow back in the day. She was a notable music writer who authored a couple of good record reviews, and she bounced around my…
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