exactly. these are just skills at the end of the day

annoys me how strongly people believe in (and reinforce) the false stem/liberal arts binary. I've seen plenty of engineers fuck up some math and writers struggle with grammar

great insights here and a great reminder to watch Bugonia, which is essentially about this www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Meet the voracious food mappers trying to make it easier to find Pa.’s best eats https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03/hot-dogs-fish-fries-best-philadelphia-foods-maps-lent-guide-pennsylvania-local/

the chainsaw man ending is brilliant. salute to fujimoto, a true original

I reviewed the new ELUCID pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

straight heat youtu.be/amxXGtbaa38?...

jlin was truly painting on air on black origami

van leeuwen's crimes against gelato must be stopped

spoke w GENA, the duo consisting of Liv.e and Karriem Riggins about love, the healing power of Martin, and the art of going outside for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social. And yes, the pleasure was mine

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing 2) lol

the wayback machine was definitely a mcdonald's ice cream machine in a past life

reading this, I realized I was not as deep in the adult swim trenches as I thought www.vulture.com/article/best...

Local Man Keeps Writing: "Feels Good, Ya Know?"

NEW: Wall Street is rapidly embracing prediction markets. We're watching a speedrun of what happened w crypto: www.wired.com/story/predic...

I always feel vaguely smug after breaking down a box, somewhere between a dad who was right about an arcane car malfunction and a mom who was right about the weather calling for a coat

every participant in the whats poppin remix is now a certified clown

harlow really tried to make blue-eyed soul without the soul lol dear lord

great story. tangentially, this issue has been really devastating in health care (which anna also follows closely) a friend of mine that's an ob-gyn has hella stories of patients developing bad complications because of grifter misinfo and algo-driven spirals that make them wary of all meds

still pretty proud of this one www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

magic city discourse has made me realize I might* be the only atlanta novelist to feature it in a book

can't make this shit up "Shideler called Signal a 'hallmark of antifa' before adding that he uses it himself." theintercept.com/2026/03/09/p...

I wrote about the NBA’s cancellation of the Hawks’ magic city night and what makes Atlanta different from everywhere else defector.com/the-atlanta-...

I clicked a diesel ad in like 2013 and those mfs have been in hot pursuit ever since

I reviewed the wonderful new Arima Ederra record pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Don't even try to get into publicly predicting where Chainsaw Man is headed. You will lose.

felony murder is so bogus www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

there's a version of this that doesn't get out over its skis, but the deeper issue is that it takes booktok at its word when booktokkers gripe about POV (or praise it), they aren't really thinking about style, mechanics or storytelling. they're regurgitating jargon slate.com/culture/2026...

today at @pitchfork.com i wrote about TIGRAY FUNK, sideshow's haunted, worn-out masterpiece. it's some of the Best New Music you'll hear right now

great piece. the erosion of search has made finding old music journalism even more frustrating I use proquest through a friend's NYPL card to access a lot of mag and newspaper archives, but pdfs aren't as easy to share as links (and what if my friend moves?!?)

I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes

truly pathetic www.ap.org/media-center...

I do not understand the (audience) appeal of the celebrity letterboxd account

why does this administration love to initiate its imperial fuckshit on weekends

Consider the Bow Wow pitchfork.com/thepitch/bow...

tbqh 50 cent and TI beefing wouldn't have been interesting even in 2006

what is the gambling industry's nickname? I've been saying Big Slot

that Bojack bit about "AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's" is hitting pretty hard today

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

appreciated this ending on prediction markets and the gambling creep more broadly www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

very thoughtful review pairing here www.npr.org/2026/02/19/n...

realizing 2.5 years later that this was a proto 'weird girl lit' roundup betches.com/books-for-un...

maga was always a jim crow vision, but it's still brutal to see it realized day after day

most words sound more interesting when roc marciano is saying them

"The real asset each of us is playing with is time. The economic culture of finance capital has long been to borrow from the future. Look through the most recent bubble of “prediction markets” and you can see the clock ticking is attached to a fuse"

always nice to be reminded of angie stone's brilliance www.hearingthings.co/joni-mitchel...

instead of debating whether the tech company chose the correct "new leaders of hip-hop," i think it's more germane to dissect why it, and pundits, and fans, are so invested in stardom as a proxy for the genre's health www.complex.com/music/a/mark...

"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop" I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

apologies are a type of a performance. the audience decides whether you can it or nail it if you apologize from a sincere place and it's not accepted, that sucks, but real accountability is accepting the audience's decision. and real sincerity is working to earn forgiveness—even if it never comes

this is 16 years old, but the ether still burns www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...