There is no "tension" here if you realize that the voters who are up for grab don't live in mental universe where ideological categories like "liberal" or "conservative" have strong purchase. Rather, their orientation is prosystem vs. antisystem — with conflicted voters having a… https://t.co/ECn8rYw9Ic— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 18, 2025
Dr. Laura Robinson on X: "I think a huge part of the draw of tradwife content is that it markets the idea that we actually don't need social services, schools, or a government because everyone has an endless possibility of bootstrapping inside them. Tradwife content usually deliberately obscures or" / X
Val on X: "This is true. The city pop craze of the late 2010s was entirely driven by uploads by those archivists. The image people associate most with Marika Takeuchi’s Plastic Love was from a different album but used on a YouTube upload https://t.co/HQc2u3HrtB" / X
— Val (@VK_HM)
I wrote about this idea pretty extensively in yesterday's newsletter - in the age of speculation, narrative production is far more important than real production
— Kyla Scanlon (@kylascan)
I dunno man. I think people getting this wrong.
No one been under the impression that alcohol is good for you. We know it’s bad. Duh.
Reason why alcohol use gonna decline is cause we exist in a culture of narcotics and gluttony now. the phones. Porn. Social media. Dating…
— Joe Holder (@JoeHolder_)
I was trying to figure out why Los Angeles feels so different. It's not just that a lot of rich people moved out, it's that the middle class don't live there anymore. All these neighborhoods are now super expensive so it sucked families out, and with them the teenagers that…
— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn)
(1) August Lamm on X: "I'm calling it right now: abstention is the next big thing. Sobriety, celibacy, digital minimalism, dumb phones, religion. The age of hedonistic hyper-consumption is over. We're moving into a new and peaceful age marked by moderation and self-discipline. I can't wait." / X
— August Lamm (@AugustLamm)
It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager.
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_)
charlotte bancroft a.k.a. austerity measures on X: "everyday life in the united states is psychologically punishing in such a unique way. we’re in the most advanced stage of economic development relative to the rest of the world, so even though material conditions here tend to be higher than they are elsewhere" / X
— charlotte bancroft a.k.a. austerity measures (@wifekisser303)
⚠️ S2 on Twitter / X
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Linus (●ᴗ●) on Twitter
Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory.Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast.This is unreal pic.twitter.com/8rig77MGuR— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) August 20, 2023
hegelian vs predator (satire) on Twitter
this is a perfect example of a traumatized person using other-oriented framing as a shield/to mask pain, and a valuable lesson in strawman vs ironman readings of trauma responses + the toxicity of outrage algorithms📜 pic.twitter.com/VBD7BfEs7M— hegelian vs predator (satire) (@rachelisonline) May 29, 2023
Emily Nussbaum on Twitter
I love you Gen Z, but you are wrecking your brain by labeling everything as mid, basic, cringe, problematic or sus & it will ultimately bite you in the butt, even if you are an Aquarius— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) April 30, 2023
Ryan Broderick on Twitter
So I've been tracking emerging AI cults. Whether it's people worshipping a jailbroken AI, forming emotional or ideological bonds with them, or groups that have sprung up to build an AI to complete a specific goal.They're happening, but all of them are human-first social groups. https://t.co/tXHsf4yMIW— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 4, 2023
Paul Fairie on Twitter
“A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Soft
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Michael Nielsen on Twitter
Douglas Adams, pithily summing up 90+% of commentary on ChatGPT: pic.twitter.com/DUYgsXCe0U— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) January 31, 2023
Nabeel on Twitter
Probs obvious, but I think lack of cheap housing in cities is the main thing to blame for most culture getting worse (contemporary novels, indie movies, music, less weird art, etc.) — mostly, the only people who can afford to make a career in this stuff have inherited wealth now.— Nabeel (@nabeelqu) December 22, 2022
Kat Tenbarge on Twitter
Libs of TikTok is a bad faith viral rage conduit. You know this. I know this. They know it. But she and her followers spin it like they have no idea what they're doing and how dangerous it is. They'll say things like "she's just reposting what other people say! How is that bad?"— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) November 28, 2022
acquired waste 🇺🇦 on Twitter
the fact that roger ebert wrote this is 2009, way before fandom and reference culture was anywhere near as ubiquitous as it is now... pic.twitter.com/OXtPLwwRCm— acquired waste 🇺🇦 (@camelcrushed) October 9, 2022
Mark Jacob on Twitter
With all the arguments over whether MAGA Republicans are fascists, I reread William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” to see how much the rise of Hitler and the rise of MAGA smell similar.Conclusion: They do. This thread lists 10 ways. Please take a look. pic.twitter.com/bgTLn4OLgb— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) September 2, 2022
swami sound (back in the day soulecta dub) on Twitter
NYC is gentrified snd segregated as hell, specific crowds in manhattan don't mesh with the tastes of some brooklyn crowds, gigfinesse is monopolizing venue spaces in lower manhattan and paying horribly, and the BX is left with geographical stigma and sporadic DIY scenes https://t.co/COUB3U4zFw— swami sound (back in the day soulecta dub) (@swamisound) August 16, 2022
Brendan Nyhan on Twitter
“"AZ, MI & PA have nominated statewide candidates who would have direct power over the certification process and who worked to overturn the 2020 result or have said they would not have certified it." Could easily undermine a clear Electoral College victory https://t.co/juu3H79M2P”
hugh francis on Twitter
The millennial formula to building brands (hollow vessels) is topplingThose who (wastefully) slapped condescending design language on a thing we already had & sold it to back to us (via Obama-era optimism) are being punished for their willful wrongdoinghttps://t.co/v4hllwIMMU— hugh francis (@_HHFF) August 10, 2022
Lara Mendonça on Twitter
This is more or less what my final project is about… Facebook killed the blog and it has killed the ownership of our digital archives with it https://t.co/HTcwRhho1u— Lara Mendonça (@laraisuncool) July 25, 2022