Tim O'Reilly
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"Can you accept that you're both an intellectual and a psychic?" - online tarot
Every rich white NYC twenty-something with a Substack thinks they're Susan Sontag because they think they're the only people who have thoughts.
this is how I know I am gay because I (un)fortunately find a lot of men attractive
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
Yes, and that shift away from teen culture wasn’t accidental. Streaming and social media collapsed everything into the same space. Teens and adults are now consuming the same content on the same platforms, driven by the same algorithms. And those algorithms are not built for niche audiences, they are built for scale, retention, and ad revenue. So instead of developing teen-specific stars, as we saw in the 90s and early 2000s, when MTV actively segmented youth audiences through shows like TRL, and the heavy rotation of teen pop, creating space for teen culture to develop separately from adults, the industry now pushes whatever can perform across all age groups. That is why “teen music” faded and “viral music” replaced it. That is also why it feels like teen culture disappeared. It didn’t disappear. It just lost its boundaries. Teen culture no longer develops on its own. It gets absorbed into the mainstream in real time.
Amy Madigan says she was “knocked out of her seat” watching Conan O’Brien’s Gladys cold open at the #Oscars.
Trip hop has aged incredibly well. Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack sound great today. Name any other niche time specific genre that doesn't sound embarrassing and clunky 20 or 30 years after its heyday.
Studio apartments are kinda just love hotels. Like there’s no space to do anything but suck and fuck
