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"You cannot be any type of girl without being monetized, and you cannot follow a trend or a creator without buying into what’s for sale." In our new #longreads reading list, Zoe Yu navigates the complicated online world of teenage girls. longreads.com/2024/05/28/gir…

"What is it about a girl online that invites Amazon storefronts, product placements, aspirational wish lists, and slang like “girl math” to make consumerism a frilly joke?" With stories from The Atlantic, VANITY FAIR, The New York Times, Vox, and more. longreads.com/2024/05/28/gir…

"We impede ourselves when we believe we’re advancing our calls for racial equity and social justice by imposing our rigid ideological orthodoxy on everyone else," write Siddhu Pachipala and Zoe Yu cnn.com/2024/07/11/opi…

Zoe Yu from the Harvard Youth Poll strikes again! Check out her great piece with Siddhu Pachipala that discusses self-censorship on college campuses

Say hello to our latest Journalism Accelerator cohort finalists! 🧵

11 rising Asian Pacific journalists within the business, culture, and entertainment sectors will join us for exclusive masterclasses and networking opportunities with industry veterans. (stop romanticizing palm trees, Wei Tsay, Xintian Tina Wang, Yang-Yi Goh, Zoe Yu)

my parents are nowhere to be seen but i know they had their coffee together

wrote a thing about turning twenty!!!!! open.substack.com/pub/ondeadline…

Denis Villeneuve says “human beings are ruled by algorithms right now" and cell phones are banned from his film sets. “Cinema is an act of presence. When a painter paints, he has to be absolutely focused on the color he’s putting on the canvas. It’s the same with the dancer when

Alan Bennett, this is it

New: Jeff Bezos emails staff at the Washington Post announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward are largely going to focus on personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.

This is painful to read, and it shows a deep failure on the part of Harvard College. We need to make academics the center of Harvard life again. For now, the only way to do that is to make undergrad classes harder. A world where everyone gets an A betrays Harvard's mission.

Agree with everything in this thread, but imho a lot of this is also downstream of holistic admissions. Was told over and over again as a high school student that the top schools didn't want mere nerds, but well-rounded kids who posted good enough grades and...

Social Media Is an Outrage Machine — Here’s How to Avoid Getting Caught in Its Trap teenvogue.com/story/social-m…

Social Media Companies Want You to Be Outraged — Here's How to Avoid Their Trap teenvogue.visitlink.me/ZuFwT1

The Chicago Sun-Times published an upcoming summer books list that is obviously AI. The clues are that there is no byline and at least 8 of these titles do not exist.

Always a joy (and a blast) to judge the The New York Times Open Letters contest. Sharp, thoughtful takes on big questions—read them here: nytimes.com/2025/06/18/lea…

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