"Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses."
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• Krista Stevens
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• Carolyn Wells
Are We There Yet?
"A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas."
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• Peter Rubin
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
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• Krista Stevens
Strangers Rent My Home, Sleep in My Bed, Play My Guitar
"Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse
"As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?"
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• Arizona O'Neill
“Aren’t the Organs a Silver Lining?”
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Roadside Attraction
"The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am."
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I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone
"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."
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• Seyward Darby
Whither the Nerd-Bully?
"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."
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• Peter Rubin
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Meet the Sad Wives of AI
"Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."
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The Guadalupe Swept Us Away. This Is the Story of All That Came After.
"In the days after last July’s historic disaster, I wrote about the tragedy that befell my family. But crawling out of the river was only the beginning."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Consider the Sister
"Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle."
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• Maggie Slepian
Failure To Lawn
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The Chinese Whiz Kids of Silicon Valley
"Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they’re superstars."
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Reality Check
"AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up."
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• Seyward Darby
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
"Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting
"I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and more—everything short of directly stating intent to kill."
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Wish You Were Her
“Aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise.”
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• Carolyn Wells
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
"For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Clippening
"'Clippers' cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can they ride the algorithms?"
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• Courtney E. Martin
‘This Was Our Life’: A Reading List on Multigenerational Caregiving
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The Desert Safety Net
"Every winter, tens of thousands of Americans migrate to public lands in the Arizona desert. For a growing number, it's not a vacation—it’s the only housing they can afford."
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The Hiding Man of Griffith Park
"A guerrilla artist has made the Eastside his canvas. His medium: Strange signs."
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My Life as a Sex Worker at a Nevada Brothel
"Men come to me for sex, yes. But in an age of profound loneliness and disconnection, they turn out to be looking for so much more."
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How Everest Has Changed Since Into Thin Air
"Scaling the world’s highest mountain is a very different experience than it was when I climbed it."
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ISpyForGood
"On any given day I was seen as both valuable and disposable, sometimes oscillating between these in the same hour."
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The Life and Times of an American Tween
"In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats."
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I Want to Live Like Costco People
"Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco."