The Newsletter Boom ft. Delia Cai Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · 09/24/2025 · 43m

Thank you @deliacai.bsky.social for joining the Study Hall podcast! Great chat about the newsletter boom, media gossip, and post-layoff comebacks!

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Besides, I maintain that it is the distinct purview of writers and artists and actual non-baseball-cap-enabled thinkers to get our dunks in where we can, in the beautiful city of New York and larger project of America wherein cultural capital is still not something that can be entirely bought and stripped for parts yet; thus being able to categorically reject an AI company’s attempt to be “cool” and “community-minded” is probably the closest thing to artistic freedom we will have in this decade. So let me reiterate, actually, that I think this shit is so fucking dorky, and anyone who is excited about the “aesthetics” of an AI company reveals a soul so malnourished from lack of exposure to basic facts of experience, sensation, context and yes, TASTE, that a semblance of a gesture toward meaning activates some kind of rhapsodic trip-wire within. Oh my sweet children. I can’t believe you think that’s beauty.

Need a cigarette after reading @deliacai.bsky.social's ant-AI screed in today’s Deez Links www.deezlinks.com/p/the-ai-cla...

i'm banning reviewers from using the word "lush" to describe works written by asian authors. enough is enough

Hate Read Season 2: call for submissions Finally, some good news.

Hate Read is coming back, and I want you to write for it: www.deezlinks.com/p/hate-read-...

Holding human connection hostage Unless you upgrade for a premium Friendship subscription!!

"[one] wishes more of our generation would simply just shut up and start literal cults, instead of unimaginatively shoehorning every impulse into a high-growth-potential brand." @deliacai.bsky.social www.deezlinks.com/p/holding-hu...

@deliacai.bsky.social wrote about this in 2021 for Vanity Fair: www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/0...

🟧 The new rules of media 20 lessons for digital media’s present and future

I had some newsletter fun: "The New Rules of Media", 20 lessons for How Digital Media Works Now, with help from @deliacai.bsky.social @davidcho.bsky.social @nwquah.bsky.social // onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-ru...

A text screenshot that says: “Everything is a personality cult, and maybe just a cult. You have to cultivate your own, no matter how small. To do so you must always be relatable, but also ideally aspirational. Just don’t get too out of the reach of your cultists.”

This is both very good and mostly depressing …

Who wants to have a cult?? Can’t I just write some good stories and host interesting shows/events?

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The uncomplicated tradness beguiles A little thinker for the family table...

nuclear family thoughts www.deezlinks.com/p/the-uncomp...

“Man infatuate” indeed Well, congrats to Vanity Fair for finally publishing something PopCrave couldn’t immediately pick through and clout-jack, I guess!

should we discuss the Cormac McCarthy muse thing www.deezlinks.com/p/man-infatu...

I think there's a pendulum in newsletter writing that swings between "I'm sharing one high-impact thought" and "I'm assembling a small digital magazine," and right now I feel like I'm receiving too many magazines and not enough high-impact, self-contained thoughts

adventures from the OG gossip girl rewatch

featuring a nice selfie I took the day I got laid off

Crazy that the word "estranged" predates the internet. E-stranged, to make one another stranger, seems otherwise like an obviously named state of modern relation

I for one look forward to seeing Elon try to share power in a group project

This happened again but now I'm BACK

wow i thought i got locked out of bluesky turns out my pw was exactly what i thought my pw was gonna be

manifesting this for the media industry in 2025 or so

last night i sat at a table of kind and intelligent and open-hearted artists who had never heard of nolita dirtbag so naturally i decided to ruin their lives

LOGGING ON

Ohhhhh my god u caught Elon Musk in an act of hypocrisy? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite bella hadid

met a poodle named Wolfgang who has apparently learned to impatiently tap his owner when he's tired of her chatting

guys only want one thing and it's to sit at the bar and split a tomahawk steak w their bestie

1 special chocolate square at bk museum first saturdays .... super recommend ...........1.5 squares not so much

FUCK accidentally let one of those fat ass bumblebees inside

"Rivers Cuomo has joined Bluesky."

Exquisite

skeet or be skeeten