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Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come. Click to read Read Max, by Max Read, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Tech critic Paris Marx provides the critical take on Silicon Valley you’ve been missing

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter. Click to read The Present Age, by Parker Molloy, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Independent accountability journalism. Click to read Popular Information, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

A veteran Washington Post reporter offers an unsparing look at tech, AI and the future (but, like, the human side). Click to read Mind and Iron, by Steven Zeitchik, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

This is a newsletter about the dismal state of American politics, the far right, and .... sandwiches. Plus literature, whimsy, culture, and absolutely everything else you could imagine, brought to you by the mind of Talia Lavin, an overeducated, neurotic weirdo, and her beloved editor, David Swanson.

Inside the Delaware Court of Chancery, by Chance. Click to read The Chancery Daily, by Chance the Lawyer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Explain Wikipedia or die trying. Click to read The Wikipedian, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games, other media and internet culture.

Showing you how to bring ideas to life with code 🤙. Click to read The Craft of UI, by Jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, a Substack publication.

A fabulous magazine for modern women of style and purpose.

FARSIGHT is a quarterly publication that explores possible futures with the aim of provoking and inspiring change in the present.

The Magazine for Architectural Entertainment

Updated daily, Purple Diary chronicles global arts and cultural investigation across Art, Architecture, Fashion, Nightlife, Sex, Television, and Travel.

A Magazine for Opinions on Contemporary Culture

Youth and pop culture provocateurs since 1991. Fearless fashion, music, art, film, politics and ideas from today's bleeding edge. Declare Independence.

Mildew is a print magazine about secondhand fashion and creative reuse, featuring art and writing that inspires us to think about old clothes in new ways. As the voice of the new-to-you ecosystem, Mildew is a guide to dressing in the spirit of our times and reveling in the decay of fashion as we knew it.

Curating Web's Best Prose

A full-stack engineer and maker of digital tools and toys. He's looking for a new opportunity.

Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.

Designer working at the intersection of art, design, and code.