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Eric Harvey
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prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 24d
hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book

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Everything Looks Perfect From Far Away An essay on "Peak Indie," inspired by Chris DeVille's book Such Great Heights
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Gen Z students are all very different but one trait they all share is wanting to do college in near-darkness. If I come in to a classroom and students are waiting, there's a 95% chance that the lights are off and similar odds that they're mildly bummed when I turn them on
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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thank you to my media history student researching WWII-era print advertising for showing me this sociopathic ad from a January 1943 issue of Life Magazine
A stereotypical white woman homemaker from the 1940s, loaded with so many weapons she looks like a mercenary soldier. The quote above her head reads "I helped cook 'em in my kitchen."
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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so what's going on here exactly
In a sign of how much politics has changed in recent years, Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance, the stewards of the current Republican administration, were not invited, but Rachel Maddow, the liberal television host who used to skewer Mr. Cheney for his support of the Iraq war, was on hand as a guest of the family.
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I cannot read, I'm not sure what you're talking about, and I forgot why I stood up. But I am hoping that the following statement will be put towards my class participation grade.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If Spotify symbolized the major labels plowing a camera-surveilled 8-lane highway through the thickets and warrens of mp3s and blogs, their approval of A.I. will quickly populate those crowded roads with giant, ugly, gas-guzzling pickup trucks that you can't pass
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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does literally anyone do this kind of thing in earnest, and not because they're a Republican faking an attack or simulating property damage
Back in 2008, a volunteer for John McCain’s presidential campaign named Ashley Todd said that she’d been robbed, pinned to the ground and had a backwards letter “B” carved into her face. She lied and said her attacker was a Black man who noticed a McCain sticker on her car, assaulted her and said "you are going to be a Barack supporter.” Todd later admitted she’d completely fabricated the whole thing. In 2015, a veteran in Texas named Scott Lattin reported his truck had been vandalized with “Black Lives Matter” graffiti in retaliation for the pro-police messages he had displayed. Police discovered Lattin had actually done the defacing themselves, potentially for insurance money. His wife and son were also implicated. In 2021, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) reported her home had been vandalized by “Antifa vandals.” There was graffiti reading “All politicians are bastards” and an “A” with a circle around it—an anarchist symbol, not an antifascist one. There was speculation at the time that Mace may have done it herself, though it hasn’t been proven one way or another.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Discogs sellers who throw an extra crappy record into every shipped order: we’re on your bullshit. Normies might be psyched to get a dinged-up copy of Seals & Crofts’ Greatest Hits for free, but the rest of us know you’re just offloading your trash
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This is what happens when you hire a lawyer based on the criterion that she could be confused for Melania in a police lineup

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Due to Botched Paperwork, Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted
ALEXANDRIA, VA—In a stunning admission, prosecutors in the James Comey case conceded that...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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All Your Baste Are Belong To Us
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
The author Joan Didion embraced Thanksgiving. And she staged it the same way she conjured her essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs, with an almost military mustering of planning and ambition. nyti.ms/47PYF8i
A young Joan Didion at a dinner table of women. Headline on card: How Joan Didion Thanksgiving
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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ugh
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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it's hard to do a Defector

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No collection of journalists trying to start a new publication today could replicate the above conditions. (How many high-visibility blogging jobs are there left to even quit from?) Starting any new venture is difficult, but the conditions that Defector launched under were practically Easy Mode compared to today’s media environment.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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trying not to kms

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November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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basketball has an injury crisis because they're cramming too many games in, esp back-to-backs, and the ever-evolving sport now makes players run more than ever, but players won't volunteer to make less for fewer games when they can simply sit and make the same money

sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I hurt my finger the other day and it was the absolute worst
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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just thinking about how different the American Revolution would’ve been if everyone had cell phones
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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an exemplar of the West Michigan accent on the right. Bless her
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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cc @pablo.show
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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strange hed/photo combo tbh
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Was Olivia Nuzzi’s MySpace-era pop single “Jailbait” a known thing before today.
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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not a very Tricky puzzle today
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“he will continue teaching” lmao, so the skeevy sex pest won’t damage the brand for future donors and other influential alums but he’ll still interact with current young people as an educator and mentor, really innovative way to lay the priorities and power relationships bare
rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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you know it’s gonna be lit
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ryan Lizza will join the ManningCast in the third quarter
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM