Kevin Nguyen

love the lincoln michel!

[harmonizing] sloppers.... SLOPPERS....... 𝓼𝓵𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼

[Bluto subtweeting after getting his ass whooped] I don't know who needs to hear this but spinach isn't a personality

everything andrew cuomo says

at least everyone on this roster is easy to root for

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

this is proof AI was trained on my text messages

Weapons turns our deepest anxieties into a potent horror masterpiece Zach Cregger’s latest film is another brilliant nightmare.

Thing I love about Weapons is that, while Cregger is definitely back in his weird and goofy horror bag, the movie is also a straight-up call for some critical thinking about how people conjure up and wield the specter of violence against children. My review:

Brazil is as prescient as ever 40 years later and newly restored in 4K.

Revisited one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time and found it disturbingly relevant to what’s happening in the US

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Some personal news: I’m back in the newsletter game.

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Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes

i’m supposed to believe Alfredo Linguini is French?

ADL Musk

I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found.

ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)

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if you showed me the first sentence, i would not have guessed the second one after a million tries

too disgusting to look at

a good run so far!

hair is 🔥🔥🔥

don’t need irl women when you habe an anime avatar named kimiko who will listen to you talk endlessly about league of legends

let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex

go birds

Hideo Kojima: The Creator Inside the mind of one of our greatest living world-builders.

I profiled Hideo Kojima for SSENSE. He was funny and also very, very confident.

it’s not even 10am and we’re talking about the zootopia comic at work

send them to me and i will give them a wedgie

can only speak for the verge but readers have been asking for newsletters and our reporters have wanted a place to get a little weirder

collabubu

yesss huge congrats to Katie!

the atlantic: chatgpt asked us to perform a satanic bloodletting ritual

wired: lol that is from warhammer 40k

bloomberg businessweek dedicated an entire issue to it—worth seeking out, good spread of stories

“Only I can see the demons coming to destroy you all” ok this is Death Stranding

NYMag should do this as a daily newsletter!