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16 Aug

Revisit some of our favorite Silicon Valley stories we’ve published over the years; Daisy and Walden share good links.

If you follow us anywhere and somehow managed to miss it, Dirt was in the New York Times! Here’s a gift link to the article, by the excellent (former Dirt contributor, no less) Paul McAdory.

We’ve gotten quite a few new subscribers this week. If that’s you: welcome to the Dirtyverse! Today’s newsletter features one of our classic roundups of good links from throughout the web; plus, we thought we’d give you all a taste of Dirt throughout the years by returning to one of our most fertile valleys—literally—of coverage. —Walden

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DIRT ON SILICON VALLEY

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THE TASTE ECONOMY

Dirt co-founder Daisy Alioto recently gave a talk titled “The Taste Economy” at FWB Fest 2024. You can watch the talk in full here:

PLAYBACK

Snippets of streaming news — and what we’re streaming.

  • Forget by Fashion Club and Perfume Genius (Spotify)

  • No Romeo by Harmony (Spotify)

  • Oso Oso’s “life till bones” (Spotify)

  • “Despite the danger, I’m completely captivated and almost protected by Lemon’s songs.” Danielle Chelosky with a new artist to watch in Merce Lemon (Stereogum)

  • R.I.P. to arguably the greatest of all time, Gena Rowlands (Metrograph)

  • A new E. Alex Jung profile is always cause for celebration—and of Darren Star, arguably the Max Martin of TV, is as good as it gets (Vulture)

  • Sapphic alert! In May, Becky Miller interviewed Anna Dorn about her pulpy, hazy, very gay novel Perfume and Pain; now, that book is being adapted by Legendary Television, with Clea DuVall set to direct (Variety)

  • Industry/Myha’la posting will continue until morale improves (Late Night with Seth Meyers)

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MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

  • I don’t trust anyone the way I trust Twitter’s Audrey Horne to lay out the definitive rules of engagement for choosing, serving, and eating oysters (Substack)

  • As the company nears a potential IPO, can you take the “Kim” out of SKIMS? (Inc.)

  • You’ve heard of the bad art friend. Now meet the bad fiction friend, in Helen Oyeyemi’s new novel Parasol Against the Axe (Lux Magazine)

  • Professional chess drama can be very Shakespearean (Chess.com)

  • This one’s juicy too: a former Frog Club (arguably the most exclusive restaurant in NYC) sous chef went off in a Reddit AMA (Reddit)

  • NYC government officials are pushing for student newspapers at every high school, to which I say: yes, and also, if this happens you have no idea what fresh hells you will have wrought (Gothamist)

  • Let me live inside these 1940s bathroom and kitchen palettes (Present & Correct)

  • “Her features are precisely carved, pleasingly proportioned and burnished to a high gloss. And half of her face is missing.” Irma Florá Kiss on Fragment of a Queen’s Face at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Wall Street Journal)

  • Dirt contributor corner: Helena Aeberli interviewed Alexandra Coburn for her Creating Spaces newsletter series; Vivian Medithi reviewed Latto’s new album; Katy Kelleher meditated on Deep Time

  • “Inner Light” by Jack Hanson is as beautiful and detailed as the Frans Snyders still life that accompanies it (The Paris Review)

  • The Ralph Lauren Martini Bear Throw pillow is so uncool it loops back around to being cool again. And I need it (X)