The "expert problem" speedrun: Year 1: Study topic, become expert Year 5: Realize how complex it is Year 10: Develop sophisticated nuanced view Year 15: Watch someone with 0 knowledge confidently explain everything wrong on Twitter Year 16: Give up and become a beekeeper

The cruelest trick played on millennials wasn't poverty. It was false mobility. Just enough money to move cities, not enough to buy. Just enough prestige to feel special, not enough to command loyalty from employers. Just enough cultural capital to curate taste, not enough to own property. We hover in the in-between. The bookshelf comes with us.

Westenberg.

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

The IKEA Bookshelf and the Death of Arrival

The Bunnings–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people who are good at one thing overestimate their ability to perform home maintenance tasks

"Turns out if you criticise private jets on LinkedIn you make a lot of dudes who don’t own private jets real mad. Which supports my theory that all men secretly believe they will one day own a private jet."

Don’t turn this choice into a think-piece debate. Just say no. And if your child screams at you, fine. Better they scream at you now than spend their adulthood unable to sit in silence, unable to read a book, unable to hold a single thought of their own. https://www.theindex.media/p/if-you-let-your-kid-use-sora-you-re-a-bad-parent

I think it’s fair to say the devil has enough advocates

The only difference between Voldemort and JK Rowling is that JK Rowling still has a nose you can tell because she keeps sticking it in everyone else’s genitals

people keep saying to me “everyone was worried about the internet and TV melting our brains and we all turned out okay” and I’m like HAVE YOU SEEN THE STATE OF THE WORLD WE DID NOT TURN OUT OKAY

More people need to read this post.

OpenAI’s Social App Is Here, and It’s Really, Genuinely, Truly Abominable

Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: OpenAI released a new Sora app Tuesday that lets people create and share AI-generated video clips featuring themsel...

We are increasingly ruled over by a class of glorified used car salesmen who are convinced they’re Steve Jobs