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Today’s story, which is the first part in a series I’m working on about WNYC, asks a simple question: why did New York Radio hire Andrew Golis to be its (extremely well-paid) Chief Content Officer? It also explains what piqued my interest in writing about the station in the first place. Before we get started, I’ve got a real-time update, related to my reporting: in less than a month, four reporters have quit the WNYC newsroom, at least one of them citing mental health reasons.

It’s conglomeration summer, baby! inMusic acquired Moog, Native Instruments absorbed iZotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance, and now Pioneer DJ’s AlphaTheta has bought Serato, all in the past few months. Although I have no specific insider knowledge – I actually had another newsletter ready to go when the news dropped less than 48 hours ago – I wanted to use this week’s Future Filter to break down some of the reasons I think this merger happened, what it might mean for the two companies, and what the future holds for the DJ industry at large.

Back in November 2016, when the impossible happened—when the sun turned to ash, the stars to cinders, and Donald Trump snatched his mad victory—there was instantly the expectation that a great era of protest music would follow. It was a thing people seemed to cling to: the sun is no more, but at least the tunes will slap. Four years later and this spectacularly bad president has fallen, replaced by a run-of-the-mill terrible one, so we can start to examine this strange era of American history.

A few years ago, I stumbled across an account on Twitter @KidsWriteJokes. The conceit is pretty much what it sounds like: people submit jokes told by children. Most of them are not very good but they become hilarious through the sheer repetition of unfunniness. I spent hours reading “jokes” like: Why wolves howl? / Because they have no idea what they are doing. knock knock / who is there? / love / love who?

I’m going to preface this by saying: I’m a liar. When people ask me about being a writer (which is a catch-all job title I’m still trying to get used to), I say it’s always what I wanted to do when I was little. Which is absolutely true — I sent a full manuscript to literary agents at the age of 12 — but also ignores the short but nonetheless significant stint of my early years when I desperately wanted to be a marine biologist.

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Hey, lovely human 👋🏻 Well, I almost don’t know where to start with this one. It’s like all of my birthdays and Christmases have been rolled into one, gift wrapped and then hand-delivered by Henry Cavill who also wants to marry me. (Don’t judge my fantasies, plz). You know what I’m talking about, right? 👇 Firstly, if you happen to be one of these people who thinks about the Roman Empire daily/weekly/monthly for no reason, please continue to do you.

In the private support group I run, a woman recently shared the story of her husband going about a month without showering, but still expecting her to have sex with him. And that opened the floodgates of male disgustingness. “My ex didn’t shower and never washed his ass. He insisted on sleeping in the nude and his sheets always had stains on them. One time he wanted to 69 and there were literal poo flakes near his balls,” one reader told me.

Vaginal discharge can bleach underwear, meaning it can fade or remove the dye from the fabric. This is normal, but it’s rarely ever acknowledged, never mind discussed or normalized, because we rarely discuss vaginal discharge in a non sophomoric, non punitive way. The other day I posted a video on TikTok about vaginal discharge and I did something that I don’t think many people have done before. I showed my own underwear so people could have an idea of what I as a gynecologist who specializes in vaginal infections considers a very typical amount of discharge.