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What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair
It was Halloween in Orlando, and we had piled into a car to make a short trip from the Hilton to an after-party down the road, to wind up the first night of the latest edition of a gathering called the National Conservatism Conference. For at least many of the young people, the actual business…
“Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,” by Jamil Jan Kochai | The New Yorker
First, you have to gather the cash to preorder the game at the local GameStop, where your cousin works, and, even though he hooks it up with the employee discount, the game is still a bit out of your price range because you’ve been using your Taco Bell paychecks to help your pops, who’s been…
They Did It for the Clicks | The New Republic
“What Cheese Are You?” was a quiz that appeared online in February 2014. BuzzFeed, the digital media company that published the quiz, returned to the same theme in December 2016 (“What Delicious Cheese Are You Based on Your Zodiac Sign?”), February 2018 (“Everyone Has a Cheese That Matches Their Personality—Here’s Yours”), August 2019 (“This…
A World Without Mad Magazine
The California painter and critic Manny Farber extolled “termite art” as occurring “where the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence, so that the craftsman can be ornery, wasteful, stubbornly self-involved, doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it.” That need for art to be ugly, to go where it is not wanted,…
Lil Miquela Shows Us the Future of Fame – GARAGE
With the rise of AI personalities like Lil Miquela, who can be anyplace at any time, the future landscape of fame is here. So where do humans fit into it? Lil Miquela herself weighs in. Michael Jackson and Lil Miquela. Miquela wears hat and vest by PRADA. Photograph from Getty Images from the Getty Images Entertainment collection,…
Time Magazine sold to tech billionaire Marc Benioff – The Washington Post
Business Time Magazine sold to tech billionaire Marc Benioff Marc Benioff (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) By Thomas Heath September 16 Time Magazine, the storied publication whose cover images for decades helped shape the national conversation, has been sold to a Silicon Valley billionaire. Salesforce.com owner Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, are buying the magazine from Meredith Corp….
Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch fell flat: by and large, people were skeptical of the efficacy of targeted advertising; the ads we got…
How a free canvas tote became a bigger status symbol than a $10,000 Hermès bag – MarketWatch
Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, carried an Hermès Birkin bag worth roughly $10,000 on her arm in the ill-fated Instagram post that got her slammed for “flashing her wealth” — and then lecturing a critic about her “sacrifices.” But status symbols don’t have to cost as much as a luxury purse….
Inside The Economist’s Plan to Conquer America – Folio:
CMO Michael Brunt details the 175-year-old magazine’s strategy to boost circulation revenue by penetrating a still largely untapped market. Conditional Logic for What’s Trending Video Posts Running a profitable, mass-market magazine whose revenue is overwhelmingly driven by print advertising is — to put things mildly — a much riskier proposition in 2017 than it was a decade ago….