Music
Plastic Wrap
Spotify Wrapped Now Includes an AI-Generated Podcast Analyzing Your Listening Habits
Want to hear two robots chat about your music taste? This Wrapped season, Spotify and Google teamed up to make that dream (or nightmare) a reality.
Elana Klein
The Big Interview
Breaking Gold Medalist Phil Wizard Says Raygun Doesn’t Deserve the Meme Machine’s Wrath
Marah Eakin
Digital Culture
The Stan Accounts That Keep Posting Through Brazil’s Ban on X
Angela Watercutter and Gabriel Leão
shaolin punk
Martin Shkreli Made Copies of His $2 Million Wu-Tang Album—and Hid Them in ‘Safes All Around the World’
Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
It Ain't Hard to Tell
Nas’ Illmatic Was the Beginning of the End of the Album
C. Brandon Ogbunu and Lupe Fiasco