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Jasmine Sun’s Project of Self-Transformation

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Postscript No. 23 | The tech reporter on Sontag, Stanford, and Silicon Valley

POSTSCRIPT Kit Knuppel *Jasmine Sun is the author of the popular Substack “Jasmine’s Substack.” She is a contributing writer to The Atlantic, has published multiple pieces in The New York Times, and was recently interviewed by Ezra Klein. Her beat is the technologies and social mores of Silicon Valley. In her writing about Chinese peptides, the “permanent underclass,” and the furor over the construction of data centers, she has become the go-to “anthropologist of disruption.” She is 26. “I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation,” Susan Sontag wrote in her…

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