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NICE IS FAKE." It's an August Sunday in Los Angeles and Megan Thee Stallion-the at once benevolent and brutal queen of the Hotties-is reintroducing herself. "Playtime is over and all that nicey, nicey? That's done." ¶ The Megan on her latest album, Traumazine, which will be released the following week, isn't exactly brand new-it's more her. The Megan in front of me today, though, laughing wearily, says she is on hour 44 of her workday: "I feel like we've been up for a week straight." Aside from her being a bit quiet, it would be hard to tell if she were tired. Her mood sets the tone of the room, and when she smiles, which she does often, so do all the people watching her. Everyone is watching her. ¶ On top of doing radio spots, late-night interviews, and photo shoots like this one, Megan is still tinkering in the lab with her team to get the album's visuals just right. "I wanted everything to be black-and-white because that's how plain I'm making it," she tells me. It's true that the album's lyrics leave little to no room for guesswork. It's hard to imagine Megan being any clearer about what she's trying to say and to whom she's speaking. Consider "NDA," the first track: "Sick of bein' humble/'Cause you bitches don't respect that." It's a warning; two tracks later, "Not Nice" is a threat: "I'm on my fuck-you shit, bitch / I'm done bein' nice/And when it come to cuttin' people off/ I don't think twice." In other words, if loyalty isn't a skill you possess, you're better off staying away from Megan.
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Early and Often: David Freedlander - Momentum vs. Machine The Trump and Harris campaigns battle it out for every last vote.
WIth two weeks left to go, the contours of the 2024 presidential election are clear: Both campaigns need voters who usually don’t vote, and Kamala Harris needs to bring the Democratic coalition, including its Trump-curious members, back home.While the Republican side plans to spend the remaining days of the contest trying to lure low-propensity voters to the polls, the Harris team will attempt to persuade voters of color to return to its side and will try to increase numbers among white voters in previously red suburbs.
Drowning in Slop - A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage-and it's only going to get worse.
SLOP started seeping into Neil Clarke's life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine. Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently. He summarized a typical example: “Usually, it begins with the phrase ‘In the year 2250-something’ and then it goes on to say the Earth’s environment is in collapse and there are only three scientists who can save us. Then it describes them in great detail, each one with its own paragraph. And then—they’ve solved it! You know, it skips a major plot element, and the final scene is a celebration out of the ending of Star Wars.” Clarke said he had received “dozens of this story in various incarnations.”
The City Politic- The Other Eric Adams Scandal The NYPD shot a fare evader, a cop, and two bystanders. He defends it.
On Sunday, September 15, Derell Mickles hopped a turnstile, got asked to leave by cops, then entered the subway again ten minutes later through an emergency exit. This was at the Sutter Avenue L station, out by his mother's house, five stops from the end of the line. Police said they noticed he was holding a folded knife. They followed him up the stairs to the elevated train, asking him 38 times to drop the weapon.
Can the Media Survive?
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A Matter of Perspective
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A retrospective reveals an architect's vision, optimism, and supreme arrogance.
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In a time of war, there is a danger in surveying the world as if it were a novel.
Trust the Kieran Culkin Process
First, he nearly dropped out of Oscar hopeful A Real Pain. Then he convinced Jesse Eisenberg to change the way he directs.
The Funniest Vampires on TV
What We Do in the Shadows is coming to an end. Its idiosyncratic brand of comedy may be too.
