“I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for Pine Island, which has, like many rural Midwestern towns, become an unlikely microcosm of the AI debate.”
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A Notorious Pitchfork Reviewer Was My Biggest Musical Influence
“Pitchfork reviews have always been just as much about where and how music fits in the culture as they have been about the music itself.”
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ISpyForGood
“On any given day I was seen as both valuable and disposable, sometimes oscillating between these in the same hour.”
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Masking My Autism Made Me Sick
“The rules dictated that I hide not only my sensitivity but my essential being in the world.”
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Food Shopping in Rome
“Deliciousness, I discovered, was more filling than deprivation.”
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Planet TikTok
“The app’s young user base, fragmented content, and amped-up algorithm helped it spread around the world. If the US bans it, what would be lost?”
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Album as Poem, List as Confession, and Our Top 5
We may often think of poetry as something formal or grand, or meant for the pages of a book. But these two essays remind us that poetry lives in many places.
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In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson
“You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.”
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Flight Risk
“Useful is another mask. It’s the one I have worn the longest. It’s the mask many try on after gifted, after emotional, after too much.”
