15 things I consumed this week

Question of the week: thoughts on the TikTok ban

Hello!

Welcome to my last 15 things of the year.

1. “The Ghosts in the Machine,” by Liz Pelly for Harper’s, on Spotify’s “plot against musicians” to populate its most popular playlists with fake stock music to lower royalty payouts. Crazy but unsurprising (America in a nutshell).

2. This sugar cookie (and glaze!) recipe from the NYTimes. They turned out so perfe…