watching sec rush videos and thinking about how none of these girls were alive to watch the twin towers fall
Alex Sujong Laughlin
@alexlaughs.bsky.social
Tryhard | co-owner Defector
Last week I joined the @airmedia.bsky.social board (!!!) and this week we announce AIR's first international fellowship, New Voice Africa, which is in partnership with @radioworkshop.bsky.social! You love to see it!!! airmedia.org/programs/new...
New Voices
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Well look at that! The Cruelty of Nice Folks got a shoutout in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short review of recent releases.
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absolutely devastated to learn that my preferred sitting position is "considered" "unsafe" for "pregnancy"
People are opening these trinket boxes all over the place and then predictably they're devolving into sites of small-scale authoritarianism defector.com/trinket-box-...
Trinket Box Purveyors Are Melting Down | Defector
Who among us has not attempted to start a whimsical community-oriented project only for it to devolve into a site of small scale authoritarianism? It happens all the time! It even happened in my own t...
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i'm in @yoweishaw.bsky.social's newsletter today breaking some personal news lmao proxyhq.org/posts/alex-s...
if you're not a poet and you decide to write a poem, i highly recommend enlisting nyt's poetry columnist elisa gabbert to help edit 😅
Audio Flux@audioflux.bsky.social · last mo.Here come the Circuit 07 fluxworks! Starting with: Hungry Ghost by @alexlaughs.bsky.social "In the Buddhist tradition, the hungry ghost represents the way desire can consume a person’s entire being, and even their soul." Interrogating "wanting" via pantoum 🙌 www.audioflux.org/circuit07/al...
Here come the Circuit 07 fluxworks! Starting with: Hungry Ghost by @alexlaughs.bsky.social "In the Buddhist tradition, the hungry ghost represents the way desire can consume a person’s entire being, and even their soul." Interrogating "wanting" via pantoum 🙌 www.audioflux.org/circuit07/al...
I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
Every Time a Bell Rings
A fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film's actors and creators, its unexpected journey f...
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Kicking off the new Try Hard season with a conversation with OG YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen, who quit her influencing career in 2020 defector.com/why-star-you...
Why Star YouTube Influencer Ingrid Nilsen Quit Her Job | Defector
Despite its apparent ubiquity, the career of “online influencer” is so young that the first generation of people to use that title are not only still working, but still young. Ingrid Nilsen was one of...
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I keep finding my dead cat’s hairs on me and then my day is derailed by grief!!!!!! I miss my buddy!!!!!
She pivoted to video, folks. And she feels complicated about it! defector.com/try-hard-is-...
'Try Hard' Is Back, Now In Video Form | Defector
In my early twenties, a huge part of my job was to convince older journalists in my newsroom to use social media. This is the kind of job that only a young person could have, not just because of my to...
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for aapi month i came out of retirement to weigh in on the wasian discourse defector.com/wasia-can-be...
Wasia Can Be A Lot. It's Fine. | Defector
When I was 24, a stranger on the internet called me a white man, and it sent me into such a tailspin that I changed my byline. Before then, I was going by “Alex Laughlin,” just my first and last name....
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the crazy thing about writing a book is that it really does happen in 30-60 minute chunks
Yesteryear doesn't work because there's very little humanity in Natalie's character; she's a caricature even to herself in a way that feels dishonest. The premise has a lot of opportunity to explore contradictions in this worldview but was held back by a lack of curiosity.
might fuck around and listen to the "you're wrong about" anastasia episode again while i clean the house
I love Lena Dunham but I didn't really love "Famesick" defector.com/lena-dunham-...
Lena Dunham Can't Help Herself | Defector
There’s an apocryphal story concerning the original pitch for Girls: Supposedly, Lena Dunham wrote it on the back of a cocktail napkin. It was all vibes but no plot or fleshed-out characters, and situ...
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One of the best things about Audio Fluxing is working with many amazing humans. Like these rock stars! Aka our Circuit 07 Commissioned Producers: @alexlaughs.bsky.social, Daniel Ondieki, Munira Kaoneka & Remoy Philip. Curious to hear their very varied takes on climate stories? Stay very tuned ✨
genuinely starting to think i am out this money because paypal is a crazy fucking behemoth of a company and every time i call i'm told the person i talked to before didn't do the thing they said they would and it's literally so hard to contact a human
Alex Sujong Laughlin@alexlaughs.bsky.social · 4mo agolast month i realized that my paypal had been hacked and nearly $3000 was stolen from me. i filed a claim with them and they said they saw nothing wrong. i appealed, and now nothing. should i pay an etsy witch at this point??????
for a project, i’m on the lookout for people who made life-altering decisions where everyone in your life (maybe including you) thought you were crazy, but it felt like a “now or never” thing and you did it
doing something kinda different with try hard this season and it means i've been listening to a lot more trump 1 era podcasts for prep (call your girlfriend, the cut on tuesdays). man, we were feasting during the boom times
huge news: i'm finally listening to the beginning of a love is blind season like a podcast so i can get the visual reveal at the same time as the contestants
everyone should know that my pal julia furlan is now the midday host on radio kingston playing bangers and bops every weekday and i think that is the coolest thing ever radiokingston.org
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last month i realized that my paypal had been hacked and nearly $3000 was stolen from me. i filed a claim with them and they said they saw nothing wrong. i appealed, and now nothing. should i pay an etsy witch at this point??????
I’ve been in Boston for 2 hours and I’ve already heard some extremely disturbing sentences, like: “My hourly rate as a 2nd year was $1400” and “The PE guys I know are just SO happy, they have the BEST time. You’re in for a good time” Chilling
of all the disturbing things i see on linkedin, the thing i'm most disturbed by is the journalists posting these looong posts in chatgpt voice. what is going on