I mean ok everyone has their own sense of aesthetics so no shade if that’s what you like, but honestly to my mind everything started looking like shit by the MID-90s—more streamlined, more plastic, more ugly, more like fuckin’ computer accessories. And it just keeps getting blander & blander…
Over and over I think back to that scene in The Matrix where Agent Smith said they designed The Matrix to look like the late 1990s because that was the height of human civilization and it seems more true every day.
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I mean ok everyone has their own sense of aesthetics so no shade if that’s what you like, but honestly to my mind everything started looking like shit by the MID-90s—more streamlined, more plastic, more ugly, more like fuckin’ computer accessories. And it just keeps getting blander & blander…
The Times adjusted it's headlines, but not until after other media started reporting the links as factual using the Times.
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
lol you’re talking about the NYT here, they’re comfortable with ALL of it
And, just a side note, but disrupting the supply chain for addictive drugs does nothing to decrease demand. Addicts have run individual experiments on this countless times, trying to get sober by limiting their own access to their favorite drug. Ask a sober person if that worked for them.
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And, just a side note, but disrupting the supply chain for addictive drugs does nothing to decrease demand. Addicts have run individual experiments on this countless times, trying to get sober by limiting their own access to their favorite drug. Ask a sober person if that worked for them.
beyond everything else happening here that sucks shit, the New Yorker copy desk remains undefeated in making English deliberately less readable. What a bunch of fucking dorks
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar? www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
beyond everything else happening here that sucks shit, the New Yorker copy desk remains undefeated in making English deliberately less readable. What a bunch of fucking dorks
A MAGA relative's new get rich quick scheme is becoming an actor at 50 so on Thanksgiving I learned about AI vertical shorts. His "agent" who charges 10k for 6 months of "representation" arranges his "auditions" He always gets the part. For the in-app price of $25/week, you can watch the following:
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.'
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks