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In case you missed it…

• Ben Firke caps off our PEAK OBJECTS series with MUBI, writing about the red curtains in Twin Peaks

• An examination of the “Lost Zillennial,” slipping through the generational cracks

• A fresh round of Prune Clippings from Tyler…this nude oil painting is a showstopper.

Never post ft. Mike Rugnetta

Mike is a writer, host and producer, currently at Never Post and Fun City. He joined Tasteland to talk about summer derangement, the end of platforms, hentai and more. Listen below.

OUR FAVORITE ICKS

As you may know, Dirt has a new Instagram-native magazine for creative complaining. It’s called Ick, and has already attracted some truly great material. Here are a few of our faves:

“Kitchen sponges” — Sophia Benoit, writer and comedian

“The word ‘meal’” — Ty Haney, entrepreneur

“Never talking about politics / only talking about politics” — Josh Gondelman, writer and comedian

GET CLONE.FYI

Clone has an RSS feed now! Here are some of the stories we’ve been following…

• The new old book cover trend (The New York Times)

• Nobody wants to hang out on TV anymore (Yahoo)

• “Nothing feels cool anymore and we wonder what changed.” (Kneeling Bus)

• Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE (AP) 

• Netflix raises revenue, margin forecasts (WSJ)

• Inside the intentionally ‘fratty’ AI startup that wants you to ‘cheat on everything’ (SF Standard)

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