Culture

The grift we deserve

On spiritual bankruptcy, tech spectacle, and why we’re all complicit

Jul 8 •

The extremely online report: June 2025

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

Jun 28 •

The extremely online report: May 2025

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

Jun 1 •

The extremely online report: April 2025

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

May 3 •

Is it a product or a performance?

On friendship, performance, and the app collective treating software as culture

Apr 11 •

The extremely online report: March 2025

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

Mar 30 •

Everything is Ghibli

When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing

Mar 27 •

The extremely online report: February 2025

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

Mar 3 •

The extremely online report: January 2025

A month of chaos, comebacks, and AI culture wars

Jan 31 •

The extremely online report: December 2024

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

Jan 2 •

The extremely online report: November 2024

A monthly digest of discourse, drama, and digital ephemera

Dec 8, 2024 •

Spotting machine-made prose

Talking with Elizabeth Goodspeed on linguistic patterns, writing gyms, and why ChatGPT loves tapestries

Dec 5, 2024 •

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