Introducing “screen time diaries”
Embedded’s pivot to video.
Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci.
I’ve been wanting to introduce a video component to Embedded for some time now, but was struggling to land on what would be most authentic. I don’t cover events or breaking news, but I’m also not a lifestyle creator. I just enjoy writing about how it feels to be a person online, and so that’s what I hope to capture with this new series. Inspired by Rachel Nguyen’s “POINT OF VIEW” video from 2020, I landed on the idea of a vlog not of my life, but what’s happening across my screens as I live it.
In the future, these videos will be available exclusively to paid subscribers, but I wanted the first one to go out to everyone as I work out the kinks including, it seems, just how long it takes for a video to upload to Substack. —Kate
Slate staff writer Nadira Goffe joined us to talk about her experience covering the Diddy trial—and sharing a press room with YouTubers:
Welcome to the weekly scroll, a roundup of articles, links, and other thoughts from being on the internet this week! Ahead: standing dads, Quan Millz, and AI’s “cognitive debt.”
What I’m consuming…
SO pissed I didn’t think of this
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