when chatgpt was new, ted chiang famously compared it to a blurry jpeg of everything on the internet. I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how that, these days, it’s more like a fictional character that people treat as real. ☠️ (gift link)

🎙️ ON AIR: We're talking to professor Carolyn Chen, journalist @lorakelley.bsky.social and Ramp economist Ara Kharazian about the origins of 996, the grind culture of Silicon Valley, and whether or not this trend is going to stick. 📻 Listen:

have you hugged your job today??? i wrote about the workers clinging to their jobs in a murky market for my latest shop talk column @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

So glad to contribute to the Paris Review's wonderful fall books series with a piece on Helen Garner's footy memoir: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

"Porters were paid by the mile, getting their wages once they hit 11,000 each month. They regularly put in more than seventy hours a week, relying on tips to supplement their low pay." @lorakelley.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I am delighted to be back writing the Shop Talk column for the @nytimes.com Business section! For this week’s, I spoke with Marc Benioff and others about their (still largely speculative) vision for a bot colleague future, where AI is promoted to “digital labor.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

I wrote about Martin Amis for @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about a new book on multi-level marketing, and what this nominally fringey industry tells us about the rest of the economy: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

delighted to be back in the Times Sunday Business section this weekend with a quick look at what the GDP does/doesn’t reveal about the wider economy

As tariffs threaten the cost of synth knobs, wine corks, specialty butters and trading card sleeves, the stuff that makes American life fun may become out of reach. For the NYT Sunday Business section, I wrote about how tariffs will reshape the world of hobbies: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/b...

I have some news: Today is my last day @theatlantic.com ! After two epic years and 200 newsletters, I am going to freelance!! Very excited for projects ahead but will miss my wonderful colleagues so much. So grateful for all I learned here!!!!!

I wrote about the posting that electric-car supporters should “ROT IN HELL” to showcasing Teslas on the White House lawn pipeline for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

good luck out there, tax filers www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Trump administration’s attempts to shake up the IRS could work against its goal of efficiency, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

A sign that the egg-cost crisis has gotten dire came in the form of a sticker on a laminated breakfast menu: Last week, Waffle House announced that it would be adding a temporary 50-cent surcharge to each egg ordered. I wrote about eggs for @theatlantic.com ! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I wrote about a growing community of Christians in Silicon Valley — including Peter Thiel and his favorite commandments, Elon Musk's turn from atheism, and the Bay Area's favorite theologian, Rene Girard. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

Restaurants and grocers are usually willing to absorb a fair amount of price fluctuation in order to avoid alienating customers, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. But the egg-cost crisis is testing this norm.

Wikipedia is full of flaws. But unlike much of the internet, it remains a place where facts still matter. That's a problem for those, like Musk, who wish to control how information is disseminated. More from me here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“Americans understand Americans less because we see Americans less,” @dkthomp.bsky.social told @lorakelley.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily. “I don’t think there should be any confusion about why an anti-social century has coincided with a polarized century.”

sincerely the greatest technology feature of all time

career highlight: interviewed Timbaland for an episode about how AI is changing the music industry! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

this one goes out to my java-drinking followers @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

new year new mouse rug

every book should be 100 or 1000 pages

WE HAVE A DEAL: We are thrilled to announce that we have a tentative, three-year deal with @theatlantic.com, pending ratification by our members. Here are just a few highlights of the deal…

Tech leaders, after years of feuds and rebukes, are donating to Trump's transition fund and heading to Mar-a-Lago to dine with him. For @theatlantic.com, I wrote how the tech Trump taboo is becoming a distant memory: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

For @theatlantic.com Daily yesterday, I spoke with @cwarzel.bsky.social about the internet's frantic search for a narrative in the hours and days that followed the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Kicker here is really good @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“There is no indication in corporate documents that Mr. Boulos, a Lebanese-American whose son is married to Mr. Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is a man of significant wealth as a result of his businesses.” More on the Trump in-laws: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

what's up #bluesky, it's wednesday...let's get it!

And since we published this last night, Kimberly Guilfoyle has been nominated as US Ambassador to Greece! @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

google docs is so amazing. there are all my documents!

It’s been a rocky year for the type of restaurant that served as the setting for awkward lunch scenes in The Office, for the mall spots serving up giant bowls of pasta and sugary drinks. For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the woes of mid-tier dining: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Even if Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy achieve only a sliver of the ambitious cuts they’ve put forth, they could still manage to alter government agencies and services that affect Americans’ lives, @lorakelley.bsky.social explains in the Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/4fJS59AB

next 2024 though, we'll see

tough moment to be a restaurant in a mall! @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

happy friday jr everyone!

On tallow: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

happy tuesday to my bluesky followers

Over the years, Atlantic writers have repeatedly turned to the bean’s revolutionary potential. Small, humble, protein-dense—the bean has the potential to remake American diets, Lora Kelley writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. But it has an image problem.

For all of the airline industry’s very public stumbles in recent years, flying has improved by many measures—but things could soon change. Lora Kelley on how the Trump administration could prove more sympathetic to businesses than to consumers:

Taylor Swift's Eras book came out last Friday. For @theatlantic.com, I looked at what Swift's foray into self-publishing means for the book industry: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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