🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @morgansung.bsky.social, @sfgate.com's Stephen Council, and @kjezermorton.bsky.social about friction-maxxing and how doing things the hard way can bring us more joy, serendipity and human connection. ❓How do you friction-maxx? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/ft7P38H

As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Stop texting me www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Jony Ive is like evil Bon Iver

Impressed that this piece was up for a full 10 hours before someone mentioned calling social services in the comments. America is growing up 🥹 www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Today my 11 year old was like, does the F in F Scott Fitzgerald stand for “fuck”?

last evening my family and I were walking past my childhood home as a guy was coming out the front door. I stopped and said "I grew up here" and he was like "cool" and then he got into his new Audi and left. He should have invited me in to look around right?

Go Habs go ❤️💙🤍

My family is cursed… is yours? Sound off in the comments! www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Euro Deli slice with a lil Caesar salad à côté

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

Because tomorrow is tax day I was thinking about my late father's best friend, Randy Kehler, who refused to pay federal income taxes as an act of protest. I hadn't heard he died last summer. What an inspiration Randy was and should continue to be! www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/u...

I heard that song “bittersweet symphony” the other day and suddenly knew exactly what it would feel like to be a rich democratic candidate riding public transit for the first time in their life

SECOND LIFE "treats digital culture and the internet as it is: a character in our lives, deserving of our sharpest critical engagement, but also part of how we make ourselves at home in the world" - thank you @kjezermorton.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/seco...

Spoke to a bunch of parents about Adolescence www.thecut.com/article/netf...

Hell yeah

Every person with a working brain should be chilled to the bone by the government’s illegal capture and disappearing of this man. And every educator who works on a college campus should be enraged at this institutional cowardice and ready acquiescence.

all the talk about the attention economy etc misses the part about social media being a disciplinary technology, in terms of people's habits tastes behaviours. the book i'm writing is about this and i'm almost finished the first draft

The Florida Project is amazing too. Respect to Sean Baker

Wrote about why gender reveals are not about gender www.thecut.com/article/broo...

/r/PhotoshopRequest is a poignant place

in like the 1998 congressional campaign Bernie's opponents made bumper stickers that said 'Bye Bye Bernie' and so Bernie's campaign made "response" ones that said "Aye Aye! Bernie!" My dad had one on his Subaru Impreza and I found it a bit cringe. In fact in retrospect I still kinda do.

french people like to snack on the end bit of their baguette on the walk home from the boulangerie and that's how i am chugging a lacroix while carrying the box home

has photoshopping family photos become the norm? sincere question thanks

It was cool when last night Canada beat the US in overtime during the big hockey game

First time in the history of humanity that being poor is being used as an excuse for not partying… capitalism is winning kids and you’re letting it www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Anyway that desire seems really powerful and I think it explains a lot of the dumb shit people do

I don't think people who throw gender reveal parties care about the fetus' sex at all. In fact I think these events have nothing whatsoever to do with gender essentialism. It's just a convenient way to make a "surprise" happen at a party. People just want something to "happen". That is all

Sorry to be like this but it’s not cool to auto-subscribe your readers to a new newsletter. Uncool; don’t do it

Brooding goes Coontz mode this week www.thecut.com/article/trad...

u know how there are only 2 plots, "a stranger comes to down" and "someone embarks on a journey"? well there are also only 2 conversations you overhear: "can you believe this guy?" and "turns out I was right after all."

I too wanted ruff Buff to win

“Unable to fetch translation” Sure u can’t

Bars, as the youth say

Yet another good thing about my man JJ Cale is that his voice registers as kind of a sonic opposite to Trumps. Vibes wise

Good www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

oh damn they're trotting out "good bones" again we need new poetry for this next 4 years i'm begging u

This entire TikTok thing is so embarrassing in every way

Sitting at a bar beside 2 dudes bonding so warmly about the Nintendo games they loved as kids. What would my version of this be?? New England ska bands of the 90s that I loved?? Pathetic tbh

This is true as hell

New Brooding www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Just watched the ep of Friday Night Lights where Tammy dresses down the veterans affairs rep for trying to upsell Matt Saracen after his dad is killed… we used to be a country

Influencers are all like “out for 2025? Cheap dopamine hits” good luck w that lads

A good title for a book would be “people are stupid and it shapes our world”

This horse has left the barn

For my in-progress book on how social media has shifted the way we tell our life stories, I'm working on a chapter about exaggeration. It's "the new normal", in many respects!!! Here's an anonymous survey if you're interested in participating. CHEERS forms.gle/vQ4Bx37MHCFZ...

The Alice Munro feature in the NYer will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life I fear

This is me for the next few evenings. In the roof. With quite a lot of stuff in quite a lot of boxes. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

An American article about #DuvetKnowItsChristmas as a UK tradition, and how we should embrace busy Christmas sleeping arrangements: www.thecut.com/article/broo... by @kjezermorton.bsky.social

Last Brooding of the year! www.thecut.com/article/broo...