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"You *felt* like you read a ton of books because you digested 200 context-free Baudrillard screenshots on Twitter, name checked 5 American poets during a dating app convo, read some meta-meta-Substack piece criticizing a New Yorker piece criticizing Jia Tolentino, and mainlined YouTube book talks at "
"I keep thinking about the STEM-ification of modern life, thanks to r/RSP. Decline of humanities majors (e.g. that New Yorker article about Harvard students struggling to read the Scarlet Letter), ChatGPT, DALL-E, gamified dating apps, rise of neuroticism, pop-psych lingo, etc."
"The TV writer Lila Byock told my colleague Michael Schulman this spring that the streamers are most eager for "second-screen content": shows to have on in the background while the viewer presumably scrolls through their phone. In a recent interview, the actor and director Justine Bateman said that n"
"In short: Lupone was interviewed by the New Yorker and called an actress, Kecia Lewis, a bitch."
"The ones that showed up to the dates wearing New Yorker or Trader Joes totes couldnt get hard or finish"
"my interest in outlets like the New Yorker has just completely evaporated in the past few months. I hate the currently dominant elliptical writing style that places such a priority on suggestiveness and navel-gazing emotional explorations over real insight."
"A thread going through the important stuff from the New Yorker"
"Progressive liberals have complete institutional control of the avenues of creative 'legitimacy'. Someone's making the memes and fashwave edits and all that; it's right-wing creatives. They can't publish a book or get art showcased in a gallery but they can make memes, and they do, and they make a l"
"The negative reaction to the New Yorker article is interesting that questions the conviction is really interesting, the fact we'd even think to question a decision they seem up in arms about"
"I would say this trend got started in 2013 or so. I thought it would die with the end of the Trump presidency, but it keeps on trucking, especially in the New York Times, New Yorker, etc."
"In a recent New Yorker blurb, he was still on about 'New York hipsters' being mean to him in the 90's"
"Some New Yorker columnist made this exact point more eloquently than you ever could in nineteen fucking eighty five."
"I am enjoying lording it over the Daunt's, Shakespeare & co, and New Yorker totes."