ICYMI…

• Drew Austin wrote about slop as a way of life

• Andy Bourne wrote about John McEnroe for STRUNG

• We still have some Chipped nail sets available on Metalabel if you’re looking to bump your Halloween costume up a notch

THIS WEEK ON TASTELAND

Francis and I talk with Jose Mejia, co-founder of Scene Infrastructure Company (SIC)—a startup building tools for the experience economy (or, as he puts it, “Shopify for events”).

We start with beverage talk and end somewhere between indie media strategy and the future of democracy. Along the way: Claude vs. ChatGPT, Anthropic’s “thinking caps”, Addison Rae at Iconic Magazines, Diet Coke theology, and whether you can still have consensus reality in a post-consensus world.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• “THE DEATH OF THE COOL” (Chris Marino)

• IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ stock market correction (Financial Times)

• Cafe Gitane was ‘a vanguard of cool.’ Now employees say they can’t get paid. (Grub Street)

• I used to dress to piss people off. Then, I grew up. (High Snobiety)

• Oldschool Rave Flyer archive 1989-2000+ from all over the US & Canada <3 (Flickr)
  
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