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Marc Hogan
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Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal
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Now that I've had more coffee, gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
www.nytimes.com
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I just hope both teams have fun being the warm-up act for Bad Bunny
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject
Review expected to propose a significant redesign after years of delays and overruns
www.ft.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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you heard him, time to put multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of your lives or risk being left behind
The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.
January 25, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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I'm not going to ask if you're doomscrolling. Everything is hard right now. But you still need to eat some food, drink a glass of water, as well as time to rest and recover.

Try not to stay up too late tonight. Sleep deprivation will make everything you need to do harder, including helping others.
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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me: I give up
mpls: we are going to flood our frozen city with candlelight
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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As a reporter, one thing I relearn from biographies is what might last from your copy.

1) Worthwhile fact you got first
2) Fake or misleading story given to you for PR clean-up
3) Perceptive review/analysis that jibes w historical consensus
4) Hilariously off-base review worth quoting bc it sucks
Getting to the final chapters of a long biography, when it turns into a catalogue of their horrifying health problems
January 24, 2026 at 12:41 PM
While many of you are likely yelling "go Harry Styles" or "it's negative degrees outside" I'm yelling "I put a Bun B reference in a newsletter article about asset-backed finance" OK actually this post format doesn't work, posting anyway
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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"Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable." - @anildash.com

www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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"Remember the winter / Gets cold in ways you always forget"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVX...
Rhythm & Soul
YouTube video by Spoon - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Was doing some research today that reminded me to check up on 3-D movies. A futuristic technology decades in the making that became genuinely popular and then faded away due to quality control and cost issues. Many such cases. trends.google.com/explore?q=%2...
January 22, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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i spoke to Dry Cleaning, Colleen Green, and 5 more industry sources. they all said that it's gotten harder than ever for developing and mid-size acts to make ends meet on the road.

the affordability crisis is here for indie artists.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Is the Touring Business Broken for Indie Acts?
Artists, agents, and managers say that touring is more expensive than ever, and it's becoming harder for indie artists to make money on the road
www.rollingstone.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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I COMPLETELY missed that there was a new Tiny Vipers record near the end of last year. Just acoustic guitar, that voice and so, so much reverb. Gonna be devastated all day.

tinyvipers.bandcamp.com/album/tormen...
Tormentor, by Tiny Vipers
9 track album
tinyvipers.bandcamp.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Nate Silver's brain has been melted by social media to the point that his definition of "Bluesky" as a catch-all boogeyman now includes *checks notes* the General Staff of the Danish Armed Forces
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
"In much the same way that funding from venture capital firms allowed platforms like Uber to operate at a loss .... , Condé Nast’s relative lack of interest in monetizing Pitchfork allowed ... " [citation needed]
January 21, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Influential albums cont.
The Softies - Holiday in Rhode Island (2000)
January 21, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I think about this every day. Mainly because “Nobody Wants This” wasn’t a better show.
everything remains embarrassing bc sky ferreira hasn't lifted the hex
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I enjoyed overseeing today's The Allocator newsletter (from With Intelligence/S&P Global) while founder Leanna Orr is away. I wrote about animated GIFs!

Subscription info for institutional investing pros, very few of whom likely follow me here but hey: pardot.withintelligence.com/e/284832/l-2...
January 20, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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There it is
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Spending an hour googling some guy you then don’t ever mention in the piece, one of the many sweet writing feelings the machines can never replace
January 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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The Minnesota Star Tribune has reporters write about the ICE crackdown in Minnesota, then emails the next day’s layouts to Des Moines, Iowa, to be printed, then trucks the printed papers back to Minnesota for delivery, then can’t get the newspapers delivered because of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
For anyone overwhelmed on here, my favorite feeds are Quiet Posters bsky.app/profile/did:... and Gift Links/Gift Articles bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM