If you’re of a certain zoomer-ish age (born between ‘97 and ‘02?), you grew up in global financial crisis and haven’t known much else since. The great recession likely colors some of your earliest memories. For many of you, becoming conscious of the big cruel world started with
This blog contains some images of offensive racial caricatures and also a kinda disturbing AI dog. They are included for educational/informational purposes only. Viewer discretion is advised. In the fall of 2023 my alma mater offered an experimental one credit hour course called “Basic Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT.” The
Last blog, we made fun of Ed Kilgore’s take on the 1968 vibes of everything right now, which was that the vibes are not very 1968 right now. That was published on April 18. We also noted that, on the same day, the NYPD arrested over 100 student protestors
If you’re anything like me, you just signed a one-year lease. If you’re two things like me, you found your new apartment on Zillow — the favorite app of girlfriends everywhere. The Pinterest of 20-something urban professionals. The holy grail of content farm listicle writers. The Zillow of people
I found my first therapist on PsychologyToday.com. He checked all my boxes, took my insurance, and seemed affordable. His profile photo was strangely alluring; a friend commented that he appeared to be "looksmaxxing." When I showed up to our first session, he seemed more anxious than I
The Morning is a serious contender for most popular email newsletter in America. It’s the flagship daily newsletter of New York Times. It has millions of subscribers. And it’s “anchored” by a very pleasant man named David Leonhardt. Every morning, intrepid Times journalists paste a bunch of hyperlinks
I didn’t have time to blog last week because I was too busy going to my full-time job and also having fun on the weekends. Luckily, I came down with a 103 degree fever yesterday. My bed is soooooo cozy right now. Buzzy tech lawsuits ranked by how serious
Imagine you’re a middle-to-upper class suburban American with either a mild-to-severe fear of home invasions or a casual-to-obsessive impulse to monitor the whereabouts of your teenage children, or both. According to your screen time data, your most-used app is Nextdoor. You’re a member of a PTO or an
On Saturday, February 10, a group of skaters and also probably some other people who feel very strongly about this kind of thing mobbed and demolished a self-driving car in the streets of San Francisco. I’m still unclear if this was all spontaneous or planned, but it eventually went
At this point, HBO should probably be cutting us all a check. I’m posting about your show, Sam. Me and my friends are creating public discourse about it and everything. The smartest thing The Idol did was target the exact cultural themes necessary to generate the type of brain