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The Monetization Cliff Is Also a Design Problem
AI companies tightening token limits and Spotify toggling videos off share the same underlying anxiety: abundance killed the product.
tech business
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Infra Wars: When the Stack Becomes the Diss Track
Andy Jassy's shareholder letter as competitive manifesto reveals how infrastructure spending is the new geopolitics, with $200B as the opening bid.
tech business culture
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The Antwerp Six and the Accelerator Industrial Complex
The Antwerp Six were never meant to be a movement. Neither were most startup cohorts. Yet mythology does more work than the curriculum.
fashion business culture
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Jasper Johns, Waymo, and the Art of Noticing
The artist who made flags strange and the robotaxi that maps potholes share a method: sustained, systematic attention to what everyone else ignores.
art tech culture
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Melissa Chiu, Guggenheim, and the Museum as Startup
The Hirshhorn director moves to the Guggenheim just as private collections flood auction houses. Museum leadership is now a venture play in slow motion.
art business culture
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Who Owns the Frame? Photography's Identity Crisis
From Piero Manzoni's living sculptures to the photo market chasing painting's aura, authenticity is the art world's most contested resource.
art culture business
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Monopoly Is a Game. Ticketmaster Made It Real.
The Ticketmaster verdict, the Meta-Google jury finding, and AI's profit cliff all ask the same question: what do we owe the platforms we can't escape?
tech culture business
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