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Why Gen Z is plugging in wired headphones and tuning out AirPods

So why are "It" girls like Lily Rose Depp and the Olsen twins ditching wireless earbuds and opting instead to plug into their devices? “Wired is an attitude,” Shelby Hull, the 24-year-old creator of the Instagram account @wireditgirls, told Mashable. “It is the way you carry yourself and move about the world.”

Clarks Wallabees – the shoe for men who don’t want to wear shoes
Why the classic square-toe lace-up is still the coolest footwear around.

The Beach, a “Infinity-Looping Experience” from A24
The Beach is a documentary from Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton that documents his time living on a isolated beach in order to “transform his life through the healing power of nature”. From the looks of the trailer, it’s a little bit ASMR combined with slow TV — A24 is playing the film in a continuous loop (an “infinity-looping experience”) from November 22-28 so you can just dip in and out of it during the week. More info here and here. Looks beautiful (via Kottke.org).

Dune Director Denis Villeneuve breaks down the Gom Jabbar scene

Denis Villeneuve breaks down the scene where Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is challenged to a test, the Gom Jabbar, to see if his humanity will overcomes his animal impulses. A poisoned needle is held to his neck to incentivize him to complete the test. Denis explains how he built such a tense scene with the layering of an ancient aesthetic and visual effects.

Watch Kanye West Talk Cancel Culture, His Beef With Drake, & More On Drink Champs
Kanye talks about his split with Kim Kardashian, the 2009 VMAs, his beef with Drake, Balenciaga underwear, cancel culture, Big Sean, TikTok, Damien Hirst, getting “shadowbanned” on Twitter, politics, his vaccination status, abortion, his choppy new haircut (“harder than wearing a Trump hat”), and more.