New notes from Ismael Nafría, Casey Newton, and James Breiner

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Sunday, December 17 ∙ Open in app Recent notes from people you follow on Substack Ismael Nafría 2d Fantástica esta serie especial de The Verge: The year Twitter died https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk 2 Casey Newton 5d Alex Jones’ return to X is indefensible. It also probably won’t matter Jones’ return to X will surely bring with it the usual provocations; who knows which fictional chemicals will be turning which animals gay in 2024. But on the X of today there are…” — Casey Newton 41 8 4 James Breiner 19h One of New Yorker’s 25 most popular online articles of 2023 tracked the huge decline of humanities studies at American universities. “The end of the English major” Ironic because: “Most institutional-opposition movements of the past sixty years, from Vietnam protest to today’s defund-the-police efforts, have been amplified on campuses. That’s partly because fields like literature and history teach close, fact-based… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Weekly_Special_121423&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_weekly_digest&bxid=5be9e5a62ddf9c72dc649dc1&cndid=22144413&hasha=7bc94136e0955ccbf8609ba27231e0c8&hashb=2702573e1af555fc9e2bfb6c98db8b494ee22dd3&hashc=c1e3b15297a70bbd786a5c9772c7c0d7cd01a7e0c6d74f8df9a1b0aa4e0b3ed6&esrc=auto_auth_de See what else you missed © 2023 Substack Inc. 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe 716