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Nancy Friedman

Names, brands, and the language of commerce, plus occasional dot-connecting about fashion, retail, culture, and city life.

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The fate of books

The guillotine

A couple of weeks ago I began seeing a spate of articles about how Anthropic, creator of the large language model (LLM) Claude, set out in 2024 to “destructively scan all the books in the world,” as an internal document...

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Words of the week: Degenerate, degen, degenerative

These three words share an etymology — degen, pronounced dee-jen, is a clipping of degenerate — and have been appearing in my feeds lately in new contexts or with new senses.

Degenerate

“Has there ever been a better time to be a ‘deg...

9 days ago
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July linkstack

If you’re just joining us1, Linkstack is my monthly roundup of interesting things I’ve read, watched, or listened to on Substack and beyond. Here’s the June linkstack, and here’s my entire Substack archive back to August 2023. This is a lon...

13 days ago
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"Bolt upright"

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I’d never given a lot of thought to bolt upright except to appreciate how turned the idiom into the name of a fictional...

16 days ago
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Subtitles: What are they good for?

A few months ago I worked with an author on the subtitle of his memoir. The book’s one-word title had been established early on, but the subtitle was proving to be a vexing challenge. What did it need to say, and how best to say it?1

Not l...

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