here's the thing, guys — you have to read the whole article, all of the words. i know it's hard

for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

My last word on the matter

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare

"do not use our superhuman intelligence machine to do anything a professional human should be doing"

"The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence." This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically

my new @newyorker.com column on the allure of low follower counts and niche influencers on social media, in a time of AI and bot traffic www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Seething with jealousy

there's finally an asking price on the rachovsky house: $23 million. when richard meier was exposed in 2018 as a notorious sex pest, i suggested painting all his trademark white architecture hi-viz orange as a reminder. well, now's your chance www.compass.com/homedetails/...

this is a banger of a column from the bbc www.bbc.com/news/article...

lmao great Shouts & Murmurs www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

I really think it's possible that 100s of millions of people around the world just shouldn't be using the same technology that delivers personalized content tailored to their preferences and moods. ".15% having conversations about suicidal intent"

a particular pleasure to be involved with this one as a member of the KYE/Sam fan club-- I am a huge admirer of the intellectual expansiveness, moral depth, electric prose and startling humor of his writing/thinking, and can't wait to experience that at book length on a perfect topic

Blackhead, Monhegan - 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105005

damn, really good New Yorker radio hour on @wnyc.org rn. they've got Zadie Smith, @chaykak.bsky.social, Cory Doctorow, these are all my guys (in the Marc Maron sense)

@joshua.stealingheather.com hi Joshua, hoping to get in touch for an interview for The New Yorker! I emailed your app website form but let me know how I can reach you, my DMs are open

I cannot actually believe that Cuomo put out this insanely racist AI-slop deepfake ad. In a sane society, this alone ought to be a career-ending move.

“Over the past few years, I’ve found myself relying on TextEdit more as every other app has grown more complicated, adding cloud uploads, collaborative editing, and now generative A.I.” In a new column, @chaykak.bsky.social writes about the bare-bones Mac writing app.

wrote some digital media criticism in my One Thing newsletter, on the need to organize audiences online onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/gathering-...

This is a really lovely piece of writing by @chaykak.bsky.social about the tech that lives well with us.

It doesn’t redesign its interface without warning, it doesn’t hawk new features, and it doesn’t demand an update every other week. “I trust in TextEdit,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes, in an ode to the bare-bones Mac writing app.

is On Language a revival of NYT Mag's old, great First Words column? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...

for my @newyorker.com column this week, I wrote in praise of TextEdit and extremely simple software that just does what you tell it to in the era of over-helpful AI assistants and automation www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

I've long been fascinated with depictions of NYC in pop culture so there has never been a more capital F-capital M For-Me article in all of publishing history. Plus it looks great! @dansaltzstein.bsky.social breaks down our pop-culture obsession with destroying NYC: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...

Ed Caesar's lastest @newyorker.com feature is full of amazing details, read it!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

“Fears of a permanent underclass reflect the fact that there is not yet a coherent vision for how a future A.I.-dominated society will be structured,” Kyle Chayka writes in his recent column.

for my @newyorker.com column this week, I wrote about the meme and the reality of the AI-induced "permanent underclass" — will automation freeze the economy and mean you can never make money again? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

RIP this bathroom www.curbed.com/article/rei-...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this

Two people whose original claims to fame were that the other staffers at the New York Times thought they were whiny weirdos. One felt "ostracized" because he liked Chik fil A, the other quit because she was "bullied" there. They're the poster children for self-imposed cancel culture martyrdom.

$150 million for a media business with sub 200k paying subscribers and a circulation business of sub 2m readers is 100% a “you gonna get fired in 18 months” type of move for anyone else… (Yes I know the why here but also it’s worth sitting with the absurd economics of this deal)

homogenized brainrot!

“If the playbook Doctorow describes involves promising benefits to people only to erratically renege on, and degrade, existing services, then Donald Trump is the enshittifier-in-chief.” @chaykak.bsky.social

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

"If the playbook Doctorow describes involves promising benefits to people only to erratically renege on, and degrade, existing services, then Donald Trump is the enshittifier-in-chief." Think @chaykak.bsky.social is onto something in applying the "enshittification" standard beyond business.

I'm reading a biography of Hirohito right now and it's scarily relevant

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

soon we won't need humans to generate content at all!

Finally, a social media platform for AI agents to post funny videos for other AI agents to watch.

From @matt-levine.bsky.social today...

I thought it was interesting and significant how Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates delineated their roles as public voices in that podcast episode. Coates took pains to say that he was a writer, and his bottom line was producing writing that communicated his beliefs and reached his audience...

one of the really worthwhile digital media subs!

I'm launching "vibe living" — just kind of hanging out

Perfect, 10/10 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

deeply bizarre but very apt line