[SIC] Day 456

Vol 4, No. 36. 🔓 Cee-lo, for the players out there.

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Platformations

• The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP / The Atlantic

• How Platforms Influence Your Perception / Ritzholtz

• A Group of TikTokers Tried to Detox Their Timelines. The Memes Were Too Strong. nyt

• Ergo: the National Gallery of Art is “rizzing up the internet with art history” / Link in Bio

• The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot / Platformer

Write Ups

• An excellent writeup on Tunkhannock Pennsylvania’s Pizza Hut Classic. My Mom’s hometown, incidentally / Slate

• DSM-6 time: US psychiatry bible gets an update / Semafor

• Spotify will begin selling physical books through a Bookshop.org partnership / Reuters

• You Can Spend a Night in a Dreamy Bedroom From Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ / Artnet

Lympics

• Jeff Carvalho’s All Winter Olympics Edition / Selectism

• White Rock: the official film of the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics is a documentary set to a propellant synthesizer score by Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman / Semafor

Posters

• Washington Post staff laid off while in Milan still hope to find beauty in the Olympics /CBC

• Blame Bezos / The Rebooting

• Not just ‘A Fking Magazine’: The unexpected renaissance of corporate publications / Monocle

Internationalists

• Substack bets on Canada as next expansion market / THR

• Puma’s new Chinese backer will give Nike a run for its money. Anta’s sales have grown 17% a year for the past five years, with the US maker of the famous swoosh managing 4% / FT

• Fom Piers: Japanese city cancels cherry blossom festivalover badly behaved tourists / BBC

Savants

• A Middle School Sports Program Became a Feeder to the NBA / Town And Country

• NASA’s Neurodiversity Network is looking for high school summer interns to work on projects with NASA scientists/ Qualtrics

• Missed this: The Dalai Lama won a Grammy / Stereogum

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