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Nick’s Riff This Week
Why American homes are so ugly inside: “We’re stuck trying to make gray-floored, landlord-special-painted flips and rental units feel homey with affordable solutions like buying ‘Bless our nest’ signs from Wayfair and hanging massive, cheap flat screen televisions in our living rooms.”
Left: I was on a panel for Evereden about youth mental health and technology. Right: I was at a dinner for Substack about MY mental health and technology (newsletter sponsorships).
This was one of those weeks where, due to my own decisions, I was overwhelmed and overworked to the point of sprinting from Soho to the East Village where multiple Substack staffers had to tell me to “calm down.” I had a great time sitting across from brittany spanos, which gave us a chance to swap Tree Paine lore, as well as Michele Dale and Meg Youngblood at Substack, who had Timothee Chalamet and Gaylor tea, respectively. As for media gossip, here’s everything that happened online this week.
Max Tani
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From the @semafor media newsletter: Tensions between Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg and Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson over his podcast. Atlantic edit staff feel Nick is undercutting edit side, cannibalizing potential guests, and blurring the line between business and editorial.
1:37 PM · Oct 5, 2026 · 24.2K Views
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Speaking of The Atlantic, it seems like New York Magazine got tired of the outlet poaching everyone’s writers and randomly decided this week to post a couple Atlantic-style stories shading everyone’s favorite socialist mayor:...
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