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Brooklyn's lost indie decade

The rise of DIY in Bloomberg’s NYC, with "Us vs. Them" author Ronen Givony

Mar 6 • Andrea Domanick, Emilie Friedlander, and Us v. Them by Ronen Givony

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February 2026

Yearning vs. looksmaxxing

Swoon culture, vibecoding new internets, figure skating, and more on our February Weather Report

Feb 27 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

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Welcome to the reality exchange

How prediction markets are gamifying everything, with John Hermann

Feb 13 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

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January 2026

The network state moment

Inside the tech right's quest to start alternative nations, with Sam Venis

Jan 29 • Andrea Domanick, Emilie Friedlander, and Sam Venis

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36 predictions about culture in 2026

What’s next for art, tech, media and society—from the war on bright white lighting to the rise of a neo oral culture.

Jan 16 • Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick

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December 2025

CUJO PRESENTS: THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY IN 2026

Our second reading group meetup is just a few weeks away.

Dec 31, 2025 • Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick

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2025 retrospective: The year of content about content

The best music, films, books, style trends, and memes of 2025—with Ruby Justice Thelot

Dec 30, 2025 • Andrea Domanick, Emilie Friedlander, and Ruby Justice Thelot

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The agony and the ecstasy of the modern job hunt

Words of Mouth's Rachel Meade Smith on the changing nature of "search work"—and the psychic contortions of squaring our innermost selves with the…

Dec 23, 2025 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

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Revisiting Hauntology, or the sound of lost futures

Simon Reynolds explores the genre’s 20-year legacy and how music can repurpose the past to make sense of an uncertain future.

Dec 4, 2025 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

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November 2025

Culture enters its plot twist era

Zohran video guy Anthony DiMieri joins us to about the Trump-Zohran buddy comedy, dark woke, and why everyone is so obsessed with Geese.

Nov 28, 2025 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

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Mayor Mamdani and the new image politics

Gideon Jacobs on the political aesthetics of the Zohran campaign—and how reality is beginning to bend the rules of fiction.

Nov 14, 2025 • Andrea Domanick, Emilie Friedlander, and Gideon Jacobs

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October 2025

When the future looks like the past, with Katie Bain

Katie wrote a book about Coachella! She joins us discuss the 2026 line-up, the AI industry's nostalgic rebrand, and anti-sellout discourse on our…

Oct 31, 2025 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

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