tanya chen
@tanyachen.bsky.social
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writer / editor / sometimes social media consultant / i'm online but i know how to touch grass / and then to forage and roll that grass from time to time clips and contact: tanyatianyichen.com
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A small but significant downside of everyone putting songs on their ig posts is my music is interrupted EVERY TIME I’m in a post
This comment on a video about why poor and otherwise disenfranchised people keep voting for parties and policies that benefit the rich and ruling
I feel like a war or catastrophe we’re still not prepared for, but certainly headed toward, is a major cyber attack where our most sensitive identifying info like our ssns and bank account info are breached
CNN news alert the two skinny hot blonde alexes of all spellings and denominations are beefing
Small talk about the weather really slaps when the weather really slaps. Yes Jeanine it is a perfectly breezy crisp day today I too hope you find salvation on a lil walk
When kobe died

When diane keaton died

When anthony bourdain died

Celebs of great veneration whose deaths are a chokehold on america we all remember where we were when we found out!!!!
Appreciate this essay pretty thoroughly laying out all the ways some of us AI-cautionists feel pinned by the fast adoption of the tech. Either you join to survive and try to salvage the human qualities we can, or be left behind www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.
www.newyorker.com
Never stop being you, Business Insider
Times are so bad I can’t even chuckle at a classic jason derulo falling or I need a one dance meme
sure she still has her gripes and her personal battles but she says the biggest fuck you to our shared common enemy: oppressive captors holding us down and exploiting our good worth!!!!

Even Beyonce was able to do that!!!!
Not to ~pit women against women~ but if we look at an artist like Hayley Williams and her growth: she just put out a mega good and personal and brave album on her own, literally debuted it on public radio, and it’s her signature thing but she sounds so different and matured. And
If anyone’s keeping tabs og girlboss sophia amorusa is still on her girlboss kick. This time she’s made taylor swift criticism about her www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AMGGeF/
That is all #taylorswift #cancelled #lifeofashowgirl #girlboss
TikTok video by sophia amoruso
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Sometimes being on social media is like sharing a nice thing ur mom did for you once and getting a barrage of comments telling you that you should actually feel bad that your mom loves u so much because some moms don’t and you’re like oh ok sorry for sharing I’ll go f-ck off now
It was funny to make fun of them when they were just columnists and podcasters…
the fact that The Life Of A Showgirl, arguably her worst album to date (even by her longtime fans), is breaking sales records of albums of all time, should tell you everything about how the mainstream music industry operates

and where the average american priorities lie!!
bari weiss elected to run one of america's biggest news outlets, picked by one of the wealthiest men in the world who has tentacles in tech and media, and who's in trump's pockets. okay! very okay!
I’d also like to add to the swifties post album conversation — EARNESTLY I PROMISE!! — that it’s been endearing and eye opening to hear longtime fans put up a boundary to her money grabbiness ways as of late (but arguably since the beginning)
Oh and duh Bari Weiss being EIC of any outlet. We are entering a phase of let’s pick riff raff star power over anything that makes sense
Olivia Nuzzi hired by VF, Kris Kardashian and her premium nip tucked face as ambassador to mac cosmetics, and Jaden Smith appointed creative director to Louis Vuitton. Y’all are joking at this point
Helmed by tech and AI and the optimization of our human conditioning, we are seeing the enshittification of all our arts at once: film, photography, music, writing

It is concerning and sad and perhaps most concerning that not more of us are concerned and sad about it
Scared To Make A Mistake syndrome
I am today more scared and cautious to express openly, in some ways productive, to interrogate my own projections and biases

But in other ways totally unproductive and stifling my expression and engagement with others
You know what cancel culture has actually done? That maybe taylor can write about in her next album, free material. It’s neutered our ability to express openly and curiously, to make mistakes publicly and learn from them graciously, and to always be scared to evolve