Lauren Sarner
@laurensarner.bsky.social
TV reporter & critic at The New York Post. Past bylines: HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Inverse. TCA member. Views my own.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Here’s my interview with Stranger Things costume designer Amy Parris nypost.com/2025/11/26/e...
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here’s my interview with Stranger Things costume designer Amy Parris nypost.com/2025/11/26/e...
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If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
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It's a holiday weekend. You're going to hit up a townie bar and need a break from family soon enough. Why not read [EDITOR'S NOTE: if you're on *Bluesky*, it's reread] our good friend Tim's now 10.5 year old story on arguably the greatest jukebox goof of all time www.vice.com/en/article/i...
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's a holiday weekend. You're going to hit up a townie bar and need a break from family soon enough. Why not read [EDITOR'S NOTE: if you're on *Bluesky*, it's reread] our good friend Tim's now 10.5 year old story on arguably the greatest jukebox goof of all time www.vice.com/en/article/i...
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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I'm now at the part of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein where the creature, like many young men, has decided, "A girlfriend will fix my identity crisis"
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm now at the part of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein where the creature, like many young men, has decided, "A girlfriend will fix my identity crisis"
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"It'll be fine," I said. "I only need to know enough about these people to make jokes," I said.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"It'll be fine," I said. "I only need to know enough about these people to make jokes," I said.
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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Anyone: How are you?
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Anyone: How are you?
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
Even in nyc, a dog will always find a comically large stick
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Even in nyc, a dog will always find a comically large stick
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I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
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This is pervasive over the last ten years, and I think it's genuinely really bad for all of us! It feels shitty to be angry & anxious and to also feel like other people aren't. But in reality most people are just taking turns with it, and it's unhelpful & unkind to interrupt someone's joy.
I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is pervasive over the last ten years, and I think it's genuinely really bad for all of us! It feels shitty to be angry & anxious and to also feel like other people aren't. But in reality most people are just taking turns with it, and it's unhelpful & unkind to interrupt someone's joy.
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Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
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Writing a whole book about how you, ostensibly a human, fell in love with a sentient charbroiled baseball mitt, technically counts as romantasy.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Writing a whole book about how you, ostensibly a human, fell in love with a sentient charbroiled baseball mitt, technically counts as romantasy.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Michael Shannon has a couple "funniest things he's ever done" contenders. Impossible not to conjure this up when I think of him.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Michael Shannon has a couple "funniest things he's ever done" contenders. Impossible not to conjure this up when I think of him.
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This means WAR
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This means WAR
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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i am so ready for the eight-part docuseries about all of this
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
i am so ready for the eight-part docuseries about all of this
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“in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light”
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
“in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light”
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in my heart I know that Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to play Zohran Mamdani on SNL so bad it physically hurts him
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
in my heart I know that Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to play Zohran Mamdani on SNL so bad it physically hurts him