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"Selling Out"

plus, An Exactly Specified List of Who and What I'd Sell Out For. Phil X Who???

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Phil Christman
Oct 19, 2025
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This week there was a mini-controversy — probably already forgotten by the time I’m done typing this post, let alone Sunday 6AM, when this post goes out — because the writer Jia Tolentino, who has done some good work for the New Yorker in the past, announced that she was “collabing” with Airbnb. She had agreed to write “sponcon” for them, despite a prev…

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