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If you’re getting this email you open Dirt more than 90% of the time—which means we really value your opinion! We’d love your input on our 2024 Reader’s Choice Awards!

Here are the categories:

Couldn’t stop thinking about it. A story that lingered with you for some time.
Mood-bender. A story that seamlessly wove a spectrum of feelings in you.
Laughed out loud. A story that left you irresistibly amused.
Tearful triumph. A story that broke your heart.
Dirt story of the year. A story that’s a masterpiece.

PLAYBACK

Snippets of streaming news — and what we’re streaming.

• The Skeleton Key by Roc Marciano, The Alchemist (Spotify)

• Buzzfeed sold off Hot Ones (Variety)

• Love Is Blind contestants could be eligible to unionize (New York Times)

MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

• Charlotte Shane on the state of sex: “We may dwell in a pervert’s paradise, but no one invokes the spectre of sexual revolution or utopia, not anymore. We venture few dreams for the future, erotic or otherwise.” (ArtReview)

• A new lit mag is born: Terrazzo Mag. 

• The Whitney Museum is now free for everyone under 25. (Whitney)

• An infuriating report from The Marshall Project: “Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.”

• I continue to be entranced by the art of Min Ding

• Archeologists in France found a note in a bottle from 19th century archeologists (BBC)

• Future Commerce on Luigi Mangione merch and D.S. & Durga’s scented blanket collaboration (Future Commerce)