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Deez Links Founder Delia Cai on the Power of Hate Reads
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Delia Cai is a New York-based writer, editor and author of Deez Links. You may know her as the mind behind the outstanding “Hate Read” pop-up newsletter. She’s held stints at BuzzFeed and Vanity Fair, and published her debut novel Central Places last year. She joins the pod to talk about digital etiquette, the power of a good format, why everyone needs to go see Twisters in 4DX and why people who talk about replacing art with AI art should go to jail.
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