Arianda Grande has 6 fingers on the latest Vogue cover. No one caught it. We live in hell.

Platforms keep saying they're "democratizing creativity" and "empowering creators." So why is 21% of what YouTube recommends to new users now AI slop? A thread on what the algorithm actually rewards. 🧵

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Big Tech CEOs lined up to write seven-figure checks and sit front row at the inauguration. Now Apple and Google are pulling ICE tracking apps, Meta's blocking organizing groups, TikTok's suppressing protest content.

Dead kids didn’t matter. Endless school shootings didn’t matter. But a single liberal with a firearm? That broke the GOP.

the only good lighting at this Airbnb is in the garage so now I have a bunch of thirst traps with a kayak on the wall in the background

Here’s part 3 of week’s Dot Com Bubble series. I explain how the economics of AI are much worse than the dot com bubble, with far fewer customers, way more debt, and markets with an unhealthy obsession with one stock - NVIDIA. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

I wrote about all the ways we’re being manipulated into spending more at the grocery store.

Scientists should invent a Good Day clock that counts down to everything being fine

ilhan omar is actually one of the bravest people in the world.

The immigrant scapegoat isn't just wrong, it's engineered. And understanding why it works is more important than debunking it for the hundredth time. 🧵

Paper salt tubes from McDonalds will be the collector's item of 2038

Something I keep noticing: The companies most aggressive about calling customers "family" or "community" are usually the ones with the worst policies for actual employees. The warmer the language, the colder the math. I don't have data on this yet. Just a pattern I can't unsee.

The grocery store piece I published yesterday came from a single stat I obsessed over: 9.6-degrees. That's the exact angle cereal mascots look down from boxes, calibrated for eye contact with 7-year-olds. Brand trust increases 16%. Connection jumps 28%. Scientists. Measuring cartoon rabbits.

The weirdest thing about AI in journalism isn’t the tech. It’s how fast editors stopped pretending they cared.

In 2014, researchers at Yale and Cornell measured the exact angle cereal mascots look down from their boxes. Cap'n Crunch. Tony the Tiger. The Trix Rabbit. All positioned at exactly 9.6 degrees. Why? 🧵

After a decade writing at places like NYT, Wired, WaPo—and running the newsroom at TNW—I finally figured out what the best stories have in common: They're not about things that are broken. They're about things working exactly as designed: Just not for you. I started a Substack about it. 🧵

My daily routine is mass chaos held together by one really good playlist. Give me your current jam to add to it?