Luke Winkie
Staff Writer at Slate
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slate.com | Luke Winkie
The Slatest By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Nobody should envy the position Ted Cruz finds himself in these days. Here is a senator who rose through the ranks in Washington as a boilerplate, Harvard Law–educated Republican—meaner and more pedantic than his contemporaries, sure, but ultimately bound by the same antiseptic platform (tax cuts for the rich, a microscopic federal apparatus).
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vulture.com | Luke Winkie
Nintendo has built a cottage industry out of reselling its classics over and over again. The company’s Virtual Console service, which was available on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS, hosted an impressive cross-section of old games, but it wasn’t a subscription service. Nintendo would charge you, like, five bucks for the privilege of playing Galaga. That never felt like a great deal. Surely, we don’t need to be doling out the archive piecemeal, right? Why would anyone spend real money on a 30-year-old game?
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2 weeks ago |
slate.com | Luke Winkie
Skip to the content Users By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For a different perspective on what’s going on at Bluesky, check out this conversation between my colleagues Alex Kirshner and Nitish Pahwa.
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slate.com | Luke Winkie
Skip to the content Politics By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the end of May, the official X account belonging to the Democratic Party posted an uncaptioned photo of a musty-looking armchair lingering in the shadowy corner of a dimly lit bedroom.
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2 weeks ago |
slate.com | Luke Winkie
Wide Angle By Of the many reasons Nintendo has flourished during its four-decade run in the video game industry—a Pixar-like dedication to quality, a memorable roster of mascots, an inherent creative brightness that cuts against the grimdark fantasies promulgated by other franchises—the company’s prime advantage might be its commitment to affordability.
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RT @neurothicca: Melania’s face is posted up in Times Square Mussolini-style https://t.co/acFWPfOIS3
*extreme guy who is reading The Nineties — Chuck Klosterman voice* I really think we underestimate how many things that seem to be paradigm-shifting ultimately end up being fads.
Netflix is launching AI-generated ads by 2026 • Designed to match the show or movie being watched • Some will appear as midroll ads or during pause breaks • Will roll out to all countries with the ad-supported tier https://t.co/t2AfRrkAGg
it really is funny that this guy has adopted this new-right fashion sensibility -- whole lot of leather jackets -- which all look uncanny and strange on him. If you were wearing bike helmets to college you are just going to be incapable of a glow-up for the rest of your life
The @NewYorker has a great new profile of fascist ideologue Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug, who's been praised by JD Vance. Yarvin insisted on wearing a bike helmet in college classes, and was dubbed "helmet-head" by his classmates. https://t.co/IkmoFgsqpI
