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A funny thing about Bluesky is that every once in a while, a post of mine linking to a story gets shared and liked a fair amount and yet it drives absolutely no traffic. This is actually different from Twitter, which would drive a bit of traffic in these instances...

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Depressing NYC real estate statistic of the day: More than a quarter of Manhattan residential transactions last year came via trusts (meaning rich person bequeathing to other rich offspring): therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

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all lana del rey songs follow the exact same structure BUT it’s a very good and effective structure

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layoffs at the information… extremely foreboding

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after ~5 years at The Information, i've been laid off, alongside 2/3rds of our features team. i am devastated. if you're looking for an experienced investigative reporter with a knack for producing high impact features about tech and business, please reach out: [email protected] DMs open

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Ex-employees at the Surrey hotel are suing its new owners for not giving them their jobs back after going bankrupt due to the pandemic: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

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happy new perfume genius album day to all who celebrate

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the VF denton interview is very bizarre

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a developer plans to spend more than $1B converting cruise ships into luxury condos on water: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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wild statistic: eric adams unveiled a virtual voucher system to help 200K new yorkers get Section 8 housing. since june, when it went live, only 318 have successfully used it to get a new home: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

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haven’t thought about this guy in probably seven years but losing it over the idea of being “bearish on language learning”

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linkedin brain is a disease

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congrats to bkmag for finding a way to give the most common name a typo

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anyone on here have fuchsia dunlop’s ‘the food of sichuan’ and could give me a picture of a recipe?

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dasha’s quotes as a community board meeting in midtown east are exactly what one would expect her quotes to be www.curbed.com/article/dash...

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the latest example of High Literature doing luxury sponcon has arrived (an insert in the weekend NYT)

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need to debrief with fellow western massachusetts-ers Of A Certain Generation about how the new perfume genius sounds like vintage winterpills

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the SNL PR machine has really been on overdrive for the last few months (two stories in the NYT today alone!) and i cannot wait for this campaign to end

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a fun plus to the lorne michaels book/reply-all story is that it informed me that renata adler is still alive

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forgot to post this here, but i got a new job

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A little bit of personal news: Today was my last day at Modern Retail/Digiday. It's been a crazy/amazing 5+ years there. I've never learned so much at a job and worked with some of the best business journalists and editors in the game. More soon on what's next!

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linkedin engagement bait has become such a bizarre amalgam of social media trends. i just saw a post where someone wrote a long and pretty uninteresting analysis of amazon earnings but included a headshot for no apparent reason? like, why is it there???

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NEW: A day after de minimis changes, Temu is already focusing on "local" products: www.modernretail.co/technology/a...

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Mschf—the self-described art collective that got sued by Nike for the Lil Nas X Satan Shoes—is soliciting journalists to write "pulitzer-worthy" stories for a new magazine. But the magazine will be printed on soap bottles. That is, it's launching a soap brand: www.modernretail.co/marketing/ms...

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A rare hybrid media/retail scoop from me: Mschf is soliciting pitches for a new magazine -- but it's actually not a magazine, it's a line of soap that will have long-form articles written on it: www.modernretail.co/marketing/ms...

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A rare hybrid media/retail scoop from me: Mschf is soliciting pitches for a new magazine -- but it's actually not a magazine, it's a line of soap that will have long-form articles written on it: www.modernretail.co/marketing/ms...

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haven't noticed this tiktok-like video carousel in linkedin before

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The Trump tariffs are supposed to help grow domestic manufacturing. But, U.S.-based apparel manufacturers may not be ready for primetime. We looked into the state of U.S. apparel manufacturing and why the current infrastructure may not be set up for scale: www.modernretail.co/operations/u...

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Condiments brand Haven's Kitchen is the latest food startup to close up shop: www.modernretail.co/operations/c...

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as a former 'wheel of fortune' contestant (i won't be going into this further), i'll say that vanna understood her role as golden age game show cohost icon, even at the smallest level. she made a point of going into our area before the airing and talking with all of us, which others did not do.

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something i find quaint is when fark shows up as a traffic source to a story. a real blast from the past, if you will

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Macy's has abruptly ended its tuition-free college program for employees less than three years after it launched. Shows how much the landscape has changed for retail workers over the last few years—companies no longer feel the need to offer these perks. www.modernretail.co/operations/m...

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This is a really great dive into how retailers' messaging around diversity initiatives has changed in light of right wing pressure and the Trump administration: www.modernretail.co/operations/h...

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this @hellgatenyc.com story about all the insanity at bushwick daily is so good and juicy. the EIC makes only $36K; the current owner took out multiple loans to buy it in 2018; this owner has been 86'd from a local bar; it's retracted TWO recent restaurant reviews! hellgatenyc.com/whats-going-...

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