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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/universe-hopping-through-substack

RandomTweet is a service that will show you exactly that - a randomly selected tweet from the whole history of Twitter. It describes itself as \u201ca live demo that most people on twitter are not like you.\u201d

I feel the same way about Substack. Everyone I know reads a sample of the same set of Substacks - mine, Matt Yglesias\u2019, maybe Freddie de Boer\u2019s or Stuart Ritchie\u2019s. But then I use the Discover feature on the site itself and end up in a parallel universe.

Still, I\u2019ve been here more than a year now. Feels like I should get to know the local area, maybe meet some of the neighbors.

This is me reviewing one Substack from every category. Usually it\u2019s the top one in the category, but sometimes it will be another if the top one is subscriber-gated or a runner-up happens to catch my eye. Starting with:

Ah, Culture. This is where you go to read about Shakespeare, post-modernism, arthouse films, and Chinese tapestries, right?

This is maybe not that kind of culture:

Saturday, just as I was finally logging off the internet after three tireless days spent tracking the Queen\u2019s passing with sad and incessant scrolling, Ray J exploded on IG live, fuming about Kris Jenner\u2019s latest PR stunt; a lie detector test conducted on\xa0The Late Late Show With\xa0James Corden,\xa0to prove she had no hand in leaking the infamous sex tape. The test, administered by a polygraph \u201cexpert\u201d John Grogan, determined that Kris was in fact telling the truth.