The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself

Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of
“self-care” online; Mike talks with Today in Tabs’ Rusty Foster about logging off. Also: UNBOXING.

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Intro Links

• TikTok CEO meets with Trump while asking for Supreme Court to take up ban appeal – UPI (upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/12/17/TikTok-meets-Tr…)

• Hawk Tuah Haliey Welch's Crypto Team Nets £2.59M Amid Botched Token Launch, Fans File SEC Complaints – IBTimes (msn.com/en-gb/money/other/hawk-tuah-haliey-wel…)

• Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media – TechPolicy (techpolicy.press/researchers-consider-the-rela…)

• Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco – The Guardian (theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/26/online-influ…)

• Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 – Pew Research (pewresearch.org/internet/2024/12/12/teens-soci…)

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The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats

Find Jessica:

• jessica-defino.com

• The Review of Beauty newsletter (jessicadefino.substack.com)

Segment Links:

• Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light – WorldCat (search.worldcat.org/title/A-burst-of-light-:-e…)

• Studies on retail therapy — here (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096…), here (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mar.20…), here (taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/978131…) and here (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S105…)

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Touching Trail

Find Rusty:

• Rusty on Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com)

• Today in Tabs (todayintabs.com)

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Today on Trail (todayontrail.com)

• Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would - The Conversation (theconversation.com/would-you-pay-to-quit-tikt…)

Most of the TikTok users (64%) and almost half of the Instagram users (48%) were prepared to pay to be off them, so long as others were off them, resulting in average valuations across all use