how to eat a fake sandwich
The fake deli on Leonard Street opened about a year ago.
The Etymology Nerd
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slop realism
We are in a culture of optimization, which means we are in a culture of slop.
slop ecology
and literature review
downgrade your priors
why do we need to know things?
our reality is glitching
I don’t usually notice that I’m wearing glasses.
field notes from a phone-free future
There is a countercultural revolution spreading across the United States.
the monsters hiding in your algorithm
Did you know Kehlani released a fifth album?
you don’t know where anything comes from
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an excellent investigation exposing how the United States Mint buys its gold from Colombian drug cartels, despite a law that it should only purchase legally mined American gold.
the big leagues are calling
We get more calls than we used to.
moloch and the machines
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brainrot, gooning doomscrolling bedrotting,