great stuff from @maxread.info on the boys and their formats

Amazing piece by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social on JD Vance's new book, and the whole phenomenon of the "convert to Catholicism for trad" trend of which Vance is a (particularly unpersuasive) advocate. thebaffler.com/latest/catho...

@johnsemley3000.bsky.social drove 40 minutes to get to a sold out 8 am screening of The Odyssey—the movie is not going to fail but the reactionary backlash sure did. www.wired.com/story/the-od...

This is very funny throughout but this line really sent me "They’re purchased at airports, thoughtlessly, as last-minute gifts for grandparents, who smile, and pat the cover mock-appreciatively from the hospital bed before depositing them in a shoebox, to be ferried to a charity thrift shop."

and now i got a catholic block inside of my head...

Read and reviewed JD Vance's new come-to-Jesus memoir, COMMUNION, for @thebaffler.com. With thoughts on the weird new alchemy of catholicism and American conservatism, the vexing rise of the adult catholic convert, and the Little Free Library publishing ecosystem. thebaffler.com/latest/catho...

Is there some spiritual element to Vance’s conversion to Catholicism? Or is it, as @johnsemley3000.bsky.social speculates, part of his “slithering belly crawl through the corridors of American political power?”

“The idea that J. D. Vance is nurturing some rich, inner religious life, which might be worth writing or reading about, is frankly unbelievable. And not in this sense of it being incredible or mind-boggling. As in: I literally cannot believe it.”

For the past few months, I've been keeping a log--call it a diary, sure--of weird, fun, sad, sinister observations as America counted down to its big 250th birthday bash. Today, @thestar.com published them. In print tomorrow! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

J.D. Vance’s long, boring conversion to performative Catholicism is now the subject of a memoir coming soon to a free bin near you. @johnsemley3000.bsky.social reviews “Communion.”

Read and reviewed JD Vance's new come-to-Jesus memoir, COMMUNION, for @thebaffler.com. With thoughts on the weird new alchemy of catholicism and American conservatism, the vexing rise of the adult catholic convert, and the Little Free Library publishing ecosystem. thebaffler.com/latest/catho...

This essay describes a trade-show culture built around Ozempic, Zepbound, and newer compounds, with pharma money and investor attention shifting toward a market expected to reshape medicine and consumer life. By @johnsemley3000.bsky.social in @nymag.com

The Spirit of 1776 is alive and well on the streets of Philadelphia.

All the whey up! A dairy byproduct is now the star of the ‘proteinmaxxing’ boom – but is demand too high?

In the @theguardian.com today, I wrote about proteinmaxxing, the cultural hunger for whey powders, and how it's changing the US dairy market. With some insights on how much protein is TOO much protein. Exciting stuff! www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

It’s quite simply too empty. There’s nothing to even render surreal under the influence of psychedelic tincture. It would be like tripping in a storage locker. A nightmare.

They should flip the World Cup games so Canada plays today and USA Saturday. And they should do it NOW.

the U.S. approved like 10 million visas. this line that everyone should be disgusted to here—while the charity and natural openness of the American people is doing much needed PR for a nation whose reputation was globally damaged by Trump—is insane to me.

comedy actually ages incredibly well. WC Fields taking a year to tee up a golf ball is still, and will always be, funny. Bride of Frankenstein is 4000 years old and still hilarious. Duck Soup? come on.

"Now that New York state and Erie County have spent $850 million in taxpayer dollars, it's time for the next important step in the process of opening the Buffalo Bills' new stadium: kissing owner Terry Pegula's ass." defector.com/what-does-it...

For the @thestar.com this week, I wrote about the (frankly hilarious) drama around the D.C. Reflecting Pool, and how it serves the monument's promise to reflect--and refract--the U.S., and its history. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind's $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood. www.wired.com/story/a24-kn...

I love getting daily emails from every hotel i've ever stayed at over the last decade.

was a delight to be interviewed for this article by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social about Google's AI investment deal with A24 and what each side is getting out of it

A24 is collaborating with Google DeepMind as AI companies are deepening their ties to Hollywood—and struggling with a crisis of taste. We asked the studio about the backlash: www.wired.com/story/a24-kn...

Once known for research on blood sugar and insulin, the American Diabetes Association’s conference has become a main stage for billion-dollar weight-loss drugs. John Semley reports on what he saw and heard when the industry gathered in June 2026.

Hiring someone to follow me around and forget my sunglasses everywhere so i don't have to worry about it

I recently read and reviewed Vance’s new book, and also entertained this thought. Then I remembered that VP is famously a do-nothing role. HBO did a whole sitcom about that very fact!

Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s epic—the first by a woman—was called a woke “abomination” by online reactionaries. Christopher Nolan’s film is facing similar critiques. www.wired.com/story/the-ne...

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

Once known for research on blood sugar and insulin, the American Diabetes Association’s conference has become a main stage for billion-dollar weight-loss drugs. John Semley reports on what he saw and heard when the industry gathered in June 2026.

A few weeks back, I attended the annual American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans. The world's top diabetes meeting, it has, of late, also become ground zero for weight loss science. My dispatch on the post-fat future, for @nymag.com. nymag.com/intelligence...

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

I get the joke. but running coverage for pedophiles is the most Catholic thing about him.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

In March, a telehealth company took $866 from me, for drugs I didn't even want. I called for a refund. no dice. I emailed and escalated. Nada. So: I went to their office, unannounced. I was told to leave. Wrote about this maddening saga, for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/i-was-...

Customers have complained that a telehealth network selling compounded GLP-1s has been ripping them off—even after it had to pay $5 million to clients as part of a settlement with the US government. www.wired.com/story/i-was-...

The Wu-Tang halftime performance is proof that rap music, shorn of swears, slurs, and denigrating language, can still uplift and inspire.

"Some users have signed up for these services, submitted credit card data for a relatively modest membership fee, and woken up to massive credit card charges for GLP-1 meds they did not request."

Telehealth websites offer customers cheap, easy access to weight loss drugs. then…charges mount. cancellations and refunds seem impossible. help is nowhere to be found. I know, because it happened to me. On the telehealth scam labyrinth, for @wired.com.

Insane that “grub” rhymes with “pub.” What are the odds?

Hand-made, homespun, conspicuously DIY: is a new aesthetic emerging in the age of AI? For the @theguardian.com, I looked at the rise of "Anti-Slop." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Teaching the boys about puck.

I'm not one of those people who can picture an apple in their mind.. the closest i can come is a red bell pepper

AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.” www.wired.com/story/ai-has...

AI is going serif mode: warmer, more authoritative, more human. But AI can claw Times New Roman from my cold, dead, and actually human hands. On the serif-cation of Artificial Intelligence, for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/ai-has...

Just imagine Carolina and Vegas are other teams.

Do I know anyone in the Toronto film/TV industry who worked on the aborted Mr Beast show? Would love to chat with your for a story. (Feel free to RT for visibility!)