Weekend Mixtape

Hello! Daisy here.

We hope you enjoyed The Dirt Review of Dupes.

ICYMI, you can see all eight pieces listed on the front page of our platform. Yesterday’s piece, Look rich quick, is about duping “old money” aesthetics on social media, written by Michelle Santiago Cortés who is joining Dirt for the next three months as a contributing writer as Terry Nguyen moves into a contributing editor role.

Michelle Santiago Cortés is a freelancer who writes about life online and youth culture, mostly for The Cut (and now Dirt!). Before that she was at Refinery29. In addition to writing about art and technology she is a fan of: seaweed, rocks, and art books.

THE TASTE ECONOMY

127 of you came out to Bushwick for our event on Thursday! Along with Spice Capital, we hosted two lively panel discussions.

Terry Nguyen spoke with Reggie James (Eternal), Drew Austin (Kneeling Bus), Andrea Hernandez (Snaxshot) and Naj Austin (Somewhere Good) about worldbuilding.

After that, I moderated a discussion between Tina He (Station), Emma Bates (Diem), Jose Mejia (FWB) and Tony Lashley (Marine Snow) about the future of social media.

A recording of the event will be available on Hypeshot for the next three months. If you are a paying subscriber of Dirt, it’s free–just log in with the wallet that holds your subscription. If not, tickets cost ~$5 and can be purchased with a credit card. Please reach out if you have any issues with the recording!

PLAYBACK

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

• Steven Soderbergh is releasing his next series, Command Z, on his own website. (h/t Roy Price)

• Luke Winkie talked to the folks behind the amazing YouTube channel, Defunctland. (Slate)

• You simply must watch Fran Drescher’s rousing labor speech set over the Ether beat

• “He cracks jokes constantly—about his idol-turned-mentor Future, about struggling to censor himself in a Pistons halftime performance, about his vision for his own Jimmy Fallon-esque late-night show, about rappers in the Far East biting the Michigan sound.” Mando interviewed Veeze (NPR)

• Legendary actress and singer Jane Birkin has died. (Vogue)

MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

• “A focus on the negative experiences of womanhood–however broadly and ecumenically defined–will yield a negative feminism: participation credentialled on the basis of suffering.” A long read on Sontag and Dworkin. (New Left Review)

• Nicolaia Rips for The Paris Review, on a mysterious hole in her ceiling.

• “The Dunning-Kruger effect is the hemophilia of dynastic capitalism.” Well…yes. (n+1)

• In other good news, “we are all data laborers for big technology companies, whether we are aware of it or not.” h/t Anna Grigoryan (MIT Technology Review)

• As such, Dirt is on Threads!

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