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Also, keep scrolling, there’s a list of what I’m streaming and reading this week at the bottom. 😊

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PLAYBACK

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

• Foraged Sounds - Way Back Home (Dreamy Psych Folk / Soft Rock / Ambient Vinyl Mix) on YouTube

• Bridget Jones still has the touch.

• Avalon Emerson: 9000Streams (YouTube)

• Julian Casablancas on The Adam Friedland Show (YouTube)

• Walden Green gives Oklou an 8.0 (Pitchfork)

• yes mami! by Chow Lee (Spotify)

• Everything Is Peaceful Love by Bon Iver (Spotify)

• KIM & KANYE by Rosco P. Coldchain (Spotify)

• “There’s a nearly 5,000-member Discord channel, NKWeb, partly devoted to tracking his myriad accounts and decoding his myth.” Kieran Press-Reynolds goes down the rabbit hole of Yabujin (Pitchfork)

• Brutalist director Brady Corbet is living paycheck to paycheck (WTF With Marc Maron)

• Ugly accessory company Humane has been sold for parts (Bloomberg)

• A chilling reminder from Amazon that you don’t own your Kindle books (The Verge)

MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

• CDG brought back their Brillo heart perfume bottle holder (i-D)

• Snaxshot on Coca-Cola’s milk strategy

• “I always say that I cover everything from Target to Hermès. I’m interested in brands that people care about, which could mean either loving them or hating them, but they care about reading about them.” An in-depth interview with Lauren Sherman. (System)

• “You can’t rebadge xenophobia.” Séamas O'Reilly in The Irish Examiner

• “Before there is a suit, there is a body, and the body is terrible.” Gary Shteyngart goes bespoke. (The Atlantic)

• Columbia Alumni against free speech (The Intercept)

• Kaitlyn Tiffany communes with the memory of Flaco at New York Historical’s new exhibit (The Atlantic)

• Relatable new short fiction: “His coworkers were delusional losers with bad skin. Gabe had a shaved head, huge gauges, tattoos and a second job at Guitar Center, a side hustle giving bass lessons, and he loved to discuss hypothetical fight situations, citing his MMA training.” (Relegation Books)

• “At first he was just a series of pixelated images on the screen. A pair of eyebrows, a distinctive smile.” Madeline Friedman on Luigi Mangione. (The Point)

• These nuns are trying to save women on Texas’s death row (The New Yorker)

• “Rather than referencing the past, designers are stripping it for parts.” Elizabeth Goodspeed on public domain. (It’s Nice That)

• A love letter to voice notes. (TIME)

• Diptyque launches Fondation Diptyque to, “encourage and cultivate imagination at the heart of society.” (Diptyque Paris)

• The Fence launches Capital Letter: “a newsletter that picks from London’s old and new, and gives you something genuinely interesting to do.”

• A lot of my wardrobe is from Quince and I feel fine about that. (The Cut)

• “Entrepreneurialism is not the lived experience of most Americans, nor should it be.” I agree! (The New Republic)

• Pre-order My Science by poet Rachelle Toarmino (Sixth Finch)