Matt King @_mattking

Write about culture, tech, waste, wealth, skyscrapers | @TheAtlantic, @newrepublic, @thebafflermag | Best American Essays Notable ‘22, '23 matt-king.me CHI ➡️ NYC ➡️ BAL Joined September 2010

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Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

5 days ago

The emergence of “slop” was foretold as soon as we started consuming content via “the feed”

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Lupin @lupinxart

3 weeks ago

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. i promise.

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Stavros Halkias @stavvybaby

3 weeks ago

I can’t wait to try the new chemicals evil food companies are coming up with to beat ozempic

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an excerpt from FREE GIFTS in @nplusonemag on social cost as the underbelly of the free gift, and the peculiarity of pollution as "matter out of place" in a system where matter is ordered by price: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

4 weeks ago

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Skyline Enjoyer 🏗️🏙️🇺🇦 @LivinAWestLife

4 weeks ago

Small American city skyline starterpack

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Brandon @blgtylr

a month ago

Did you guys see the thing about how using AI in medical practice for a short period of time is correlated with doctors becoming much worse at the same tasks unassisted. Like it obliterated decades of practice and expertise.

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Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan

a month ago

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open 👻 (via raygiubilo/IG)

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Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco

a month ago

We need more theater critics. More food critics. Architecture critics. Movie critics. People who have studied a subject and aren’t afraid to point out when art is terrible instead of just “creating content.”

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Mariah Blake @MariahCBlake

2 months ago

I’m heartbroken for my child and for all the world’s children. We had a historic opportunity to protect them, and we failed. #plasticsTreaty #plastic #PFAS theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Anna Astakhova @Anna_Astakhova

2 months ago

@ProfNoahGian Must read: lithub.com/ruled-by-numbe…

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Benoit Denizet-Lewis @BenoitDLewis

2 months ago

YOU’VE CHANGED has a cover! A book for anyone who’s ever tried to shed an old skin—or watched someone else do it and thought, "Really?" It’s about people chasing transformation, others denying they’ve even jiggled their ideological thermostat, and what change looks like in an age…

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Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis

2 months ago

WSJ: "More than $1 billion worth of beverage cans were dumped in U.S. landfills just last year, the trade group estimates. By weight, that was similar to all the primary aluminum produced by U.S. smelters."

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

2 months ago

This is a brilliant piece. You might think Delta, Southwest, American and United are firms that make money flying people from place to place. You would be wrong - they are companies that lose money flying people around, and make money in nexus of loyalty, points and miles.

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Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4

2 months ago

Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

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Baltimore Beat @baltbeat

2 months ago

Issue 66 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover photo is of James Mosher League baseball players on their opening day. It was taken by Christian Thomas.

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 months ago

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that: cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations