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Feb 27, 2026

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🌀 Where Everybody Knows Your Username

Connection in a world without communal spaces

Asena Kaya Karaca, +1

Music

Feb 25, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 Algorithms on the Charts

The rise of generative music.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

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🌀 The Barbie Doctrine: How A Plastic Doll Rewrote the Rules of Diplomacy

Feb 23, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 The Barbie Doctrine: How A Plastic Doll Rewrote the Rules of Diplomacy

Whose dream are you living in?

Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Culture

🌀 Influencer Alchemy: Identity Into Income

Feb 20, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 Influencer Alchemy: Identity Into Income

How the Self Became a Product

Asena Kaya Karaca, +1

Music

Feb 18, 2026

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8 min read

🌀How Rap Outgrew Its Own Gold Chain

Why did every rapper start sounding like a millionaire, and why is that era ending?

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

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🌀 The Vought Effect: When the Meltdown Became the Message

Feb 16, 2026

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6 min read

🌀 The Vought Effect: When the Meltdown Became the Message

The meltdown is the strategy now.

Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Culture

Feb 13, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 The Virtue of Your Shopping Cart

Signaling by Saying "No"

Asena Kaya Karaca, +1

Music

🌀 How Zara Larsson Let Her Fans Rebrand Her

Feb 11, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 How Zara Larsson Let Her Fans Rebrand Her

Zara Larsson let a meme influence her career, and it paid off.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Culture

🌀 Scarcity Theatre: Drops, Queues, and FOMO

Feb 6, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 Scarcity Theatre: Drops, Queues, and FOMO

The Pain of the "Near Miss"

Asena Kaya Karaca, +1

Music

🌀 Bad Bunny Made Puerto Rico the Center of the World

Feb 4, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 Bad Bunny Made Puerto Rico the Center of the World

How a love letter to Puerto Rico became the most important album in the world?

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

🌀 Where Everybody Knows Your Username

🌀 Algorithms on the Charts

🌀 The Barbie Doctrine: How A Plastic Doll Rewrote the Rules of Diplomacy

🌀 Influencer Alchemy: Identity Into Income

🌀How Rap Outgrew Its Own Gold Chain

🌀 The Vought Effect: When the Meltdown Became the Message

🌀 The Virtue of Your Shopping Cart

🌀 How Zara Larsson Let Her Fans Rebrand Her

🌀 Scarcity Theatre: Drops, Queues, and FOMO

🌀 Bad Bunny Made Puerto Rico the Center of the World

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