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A Post In the Machine.

A Post In the Machine.

I'm bundling a bunch of content so that you can save some money! That's a joke. As is bundling your streaming content. I explain that, plus talk about a handful of shows you should be watching.

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I’ve been watching a lot of random shows lately and that might be something that leads to something else, like a really amazing column or three, but mostly I’ve been reading.

I know, weird.

And I’ve been working on kicking my social media habit.

Weirder.

Beyond that, everything we know we learned from television:

  • Of the handful of shows you should be watching right now, I’d put “Black Twitter: A People’s History” on Hulu right at the top. I’ve seen all three episodes of Prentic Penny’s documentary based on the Wired cover story from Jason Parham (“A People’s History of Black Twitter”) and it doesn’t disappoint, not even for a minute. Easily digestible, funny, smart, poignant and perceptive, “Black Twitter” is one of those rare documentaries that talks about very current history in a way that has depth and nuance, instead of something that was just rushed into production. A huge cultural moment (ongoing, just going differently now that Twitter is X and a lot of people have bailed) is encapsulated in “Black Twitter” making it important while at the same time vastly entertaining.

  • I’m going to need one of those Black Twitter memes when I get to the later part of this column and write about The Great Bundling Non-Story and start losing my shit.

Meme alert! “Black Twitter” goes deep.

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