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Your guide to the cultural, political, and civic forces shaping the next generation.
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An Unlikely Alliance (opens the original)
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Jubilee Media and CNN announced they’re teaming up for a live town hall with Texas’ Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico moderated by CNN’s Erin Burnett.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="725" src="http
No, Gen Z doesn’t actually want to bring iced coffee to their job interviews (opens the original)
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*Written while sipping a Blank Street shaken vanilla bean cold brew, my new hyper fixation beverage*<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="728" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qry4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https
Gen Z’s new favorite insult (opens the original)
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Spend five minutes with a tween or teen and you’ll probably hear them say something along the lines of “that’s so AI.” What they *really* mean is that something looks fake, that someone is being fake, or that someone is acting robotic, i.e. showing little emotion. Subscribe below for Gen Z trends and insights twice a week in your inbox 💌<input class="email-input" name="email" tabinde
Even partying is something Gen Z is optimizing (opens the original)
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What makes a good first job in the age of AI? (opens the original)
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What happens to the first job when AI can increasingly do the work we used to give to people just starting out?I’ve been thinking a lot about what that means for Gen Z. As entry level, white collar jobs get squeezed, people are also telling us they want work that gives them something technology can’t — purpose, responsibility, and a chance to become good at something. That made me curious about teaching — and service more broadly — as a first job in the AI era.<span
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