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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. I always thought Center For Fiction was the place where you were most likely be seated across from an old coworker or Twitter mutual, but after running into both Arielle Swedback (sorry I was naked) and Sonia Weiser (sorry I was talking about Lindsay Clancy) at the gym this week, I’m starting to think it’s Chelsea Piers??

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. 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 Grimes, a singer, songwriter, and producer. Two of her albums, Art Angels and Visions, were chosen for Pitchfork’s list of the 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Keeping my iPhone 17 tucked away in a box so one day my kids can reflect on simpler times…—Kate If you hate newsletters, you will NOT like this: New on ICYMI: There’s always trouble when a fandom explodes and has to navigate new members. But what’s happening with the WNBA is something even weirder.

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. “I’m in a lot of journalist groups. Journalists are using AI constantly. I think there are a lot of people who are very performative about AI online.

In light of the recent discourse about influencers and women, I thought I’d republish this essay from last year that speaks to just how warped the word “influencer” has become.

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.

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 Shaad D’Souza, the editor of Shaad Magazine on Instagram and writer for The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Pitchfork, and New York. Shaad enjoys keeping up with the ridiculous gamified nature of American politics, never made a Substack because he hates the idea of preaching to the converted, and prays for God to take away all his opinions.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. I don’t use AI.

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. Nick’s Riff This Week On the malevolent energy of storage units: “Onto this American dark matter we project our fears and fantasies. We see the terrorist, stockpiling his weapons behind a roll-up door, on the news or in a movie. It’s where Rust Cohle keeps his snuff tape.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. I’m appearing alongside some great Substackers for the live shit you should care about quiz show at Joe’s Pub TOMORROW! The event is free—I hope to see you there!! —Kate Does not subscribing to embedded mean hating me?