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14 Jan

We have nine Dirt x Marfa Public Radio totes still in stock! Support local radio and get your order in today. —Daisy Alioto

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đź’™ Michelle Lyn King has announced the launch of Joyland Editions, a small press that will publish two novellas a year. She will edit alongside Maddie Crum. King wrote about tarot for our Summer of Bibliomancy series, Crum wrote about Sheila Heti. (Publishers Weekly) đź’™

PLAYBACK

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

  • Perverts by Ethel Cain (Spotify)

  • Won’t someone please think of the TikTok trends? (Bloomberg)

  • “For people raised with almost twenty years of YouTube, the idea of free music is not a radical disruption but simply the weather.” Sasha Frere-Jones on Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine (4Columns)

  • Dua Lipa in conversation with Olga Tokarczuk! (YouTube)

  • Dirt contributor Lewis Gordon tells us which video games to look out for in 2025 (Vulture) 

  • Sanrio comes to Netflix (Variety) 

  • Matt Perpetua maps the current NYC indie scene on Spotify

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MIXTAPE

  • “Tired of all the men who would only believe me if I believed what they believed, and of the haunted feeling all this disbelief left me with.” Catherine Lacey in Granta

  • “The Smell of Data is a new scent created to instinctively alert internet users of data leaks on personal devices.” (Smell of Data)

  • Art Deco is back. Dirt called it. 

  • Y/Project is closing :( 

  • Get “a nice, tight mind” by copying Evan Armstrong’s tech stack (Every)

  • There is “sad girl lit” and then there is “bored girl lit” (Strange Matters)

  • G/O media hit a new low

  • If you’re old enough to remember The Hipster Grifter, do your hip stretches. (Hell Gate)

  • Dark conspiracies are brewing around OpenAI whistleblower’s death (SF Standard)

  • I wasn’t fast enough to get the UNIQLO x JW Anderson seagull socks

  • A universal history of the afterparty (Dilettante Army) 

  • “An ethic of pure progress will accelerate equally toward shitcoins, space, and solar energy.” Jasmine Sun on the “tech right”

  • From 2019: How to drive through flames (Guernica)