Ann-Derrick Gaillot traces how Vine’s shuttering last year disproportionately affected the careers of Black Viners.
The Outline
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Harshing the Internet Poet’s Mellow
Instagram poet Collin Andrew Yost got trounced online, but his experience offers a lesson in how to cultivate empathy.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Aaron Edwards, Alice Su, Jia Tolentino, and James Somers.
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An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad)
When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
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The Unsettled
In Ubud, Indonesia, Jessa Crispin looks at the impact of next-generation expats — Western tech workers and “digital nomads” in search of carefully curated, long-term authenticity.
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How the Aztecs Predicted the Apocalypse
But then it didn’t happen. Or did it?
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Sam Kriss, in a post he calls his “magnum opus” in The Outline, explores the age-old warning not to stare directly at the sun.
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What Happens When You Stare at the Sun?
“The injunction not to look directly into the sun isn’t just medical — it’s always political.”