‘For a lot of postwar kids, music took the place of religion. For Brian Wilson, it may be that they were one and the same.’
Ian Penman on the Beach Boys.
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There’s a reason that companies love to make expansive, sometimes absurd, claims about market definition: as the Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of per se illegality in antitrust law, plaintiffs are required to demonstrate that defendants possess market power.
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One idea I’ve been circling around is that “slop” is that which is “fully optimized” to its domain to the point of texturelessness or characterlessness. “Slop” in this sense is anything designed to be as easy as possible to produce, sell, and consume, but it’s particularly slop at the point where all or most other players in the same space adopt the same strategies
“slop” as the new “nonplace” maxread.substack.com/p/what-is-sl...
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