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Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci.

Welcome to media_gossip, Embedded’s special weekly edition of … media gossip, sent every Friday. You’re getting this because you subscribe to Embedded, but you can opt out here. My podcast, ICYMI, is putting on a live show on July 21.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. This interview is part of a limited series on Embedded, brought to you by In Stock, Shopify’s Substack about the craft and culture of entrepreneurship.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. ICYMI, the Slate podcast I host, is doing a live show on July 21! Hosted by me and Club Internet’s Rachel E. Greenspan, the show features some of our favorite past guests, like Tell the Bees, as well as other creators, like Akilah Hughes, who have redefined what it means to make things online.

Welcome to media_gossip, Embedded’s special weekly edition of … media gossip, sent every Friday. You’re getting this because you subscribe to Embedded, but you can opt out here. For a future issue: —Kate As former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-William battles Meta’s attempts to bar her from speaking about her memoir Careless People, it’s jarring to see members of the press—who benefit from the constitutional right to freely share information and opinions—hobnobbing with Mark Zuckerberg.

Every other week (or so) we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Today we welcome Grace Byron, who has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, Vogue, Bookforum, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Herculine, is out in paperback this October. Grace only watches the TikToks that her boyfriend shows her and has deleted both X and Bluesky.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. If you’re a minor who reads Embedded, tell me when you’re older. —Kate New on ICYMI: Grifters are capitalizing off of viral World Cup moments. Head over here to subscribe to ICYMI wherever you listen to podcasts 🫶 When I started using the internet as a kid, I broke my parents’ every rule. I did not, among other things, only use AIM in the living room under their supervision.

The more discerning among you might be asking, “Why does half of this video about going thrifting take place in a Stew Leonard’s?” In my defense I’d never been before. The Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary: Ten Years Together by Peter, Paul, and Mary

This is part two of media_gossip’s special two-part series about the state of music criticism. Read the second part, The Best music critics, according to music critics, here. Using my prerogative as editor here to highlight a few names: Ellen Willis (my professor at NYU, who convinced me, an overly serious young man, that pop culture was worth taking seriously, but not too seriously) among the greatest, and always worth reading now: Molly Mary O’Brien, Marissa R.

Welcome to media_gossip, Embedded’s special weekly edition of … media gossip, sent every Friday. You’re getting this because you subscribe to Embedded, but you can opt out here. This week’s media_gossip is a two-fer, with a follow-up for free subscribers hitting inboxes tomorrow! Ahead: Carla Lalli Music’s book tour budget, a NYT TK debacle, and a(nother?) journalist polycule. —Kate By Nick Catucci We still love you, Ethel Cain.