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One of worst bits of the Epstein files, is that it’s so batshit crazy, it has you doubting your sanity believing any of it. This is late night conspiracy radio shit that you laughed at in the past.

Hey so I know this is probably a joke, but for the sake of those trying to make an honest living in the industry as well as the overall integrity of the American media ecosystem, let's not say shit like this, alright?

If America was a country filled with people where the contents of the Epstein files could take down a president we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. He was elected AFTER access Hollywood, child separation, covid, being found liable for sexual abuse etc.

Insane how much better 2026 is for mainstream pop than 2025 just two months in (to be fair, the last two months of 2025 were already turning things around)

Truly living like it's the 2000s rn. We have Gnarls Barkley announcing new music and the American government talking about Iran having weapons again.

This decade sucks, but the music is fine.

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

Has everything on the internet gotten 500x dumber this week or is it just me? No platform seems immune. Not quantifiable but I can almost visibly see the radiation coming off the poison I'm injecting into my eyes now.

Three years from now, there will not be a single 18-year-old freshman entering college who has living memory of hearing "Like a G6" on the radio.

The end of the bridge of "Californication" is one of the slickest key changes in rock history, goddamn...

I feel like we don't talk enough about the impact of "Circles" by Post Malone on 2020s pop music.

You know that whole thing of "why do animals keep evolving into crabs?" For the first half of the 2020s, the question really was "Why do pop songs keep evolving into Circles by Post Malone?"

This one hits hard.

This is a really good debate format for like 50 different reasons, but especially at this moment. There's a lot of equivocating over stuff that is not that complicated.

I honestly just made that thing in 20 minutes as a sanity check for myself as everyone was talking about what a hero he was, I didn't expect it to travel anywhere outside my circle whatsoever... the Internet works in mysterious ways, I guess.

It's insane to me that probably the single furthest-reaching thing I've ever put on the Internet is that goddamn Charlie Kirk list.

Like I've seen that list I made, or a screenshot of my post, in a bunch of different forums, some of them with millions of interactions, that's absolutely WILD...

Unless something insane happens, it's basically guaranteed to be Fate of Ophelia for the year-end #1

I just heard "Stir Fry" by Migos for the first time in a while... easily one of the best hip hop hits of the 2010s, truly great song there.

I really hate that "Man I Need" is looking like the answer to this question.

Yes, yes it is. The state should not have the power to execute people, period.

Also let's be real, the cruelest fate we can give to the Epstein class is to lock them in bare, isolated rooms with no sunlight and let their demented brains eat themselves alive until they finally rot into the dirt.

When you remember that the two biggest names in music of the early 70s were Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and both of them were damn near nonexistent on the singles chart, the 70s pop scene makes a lot more sense

See this is why doing music criticism is so great... when a song is good, I've found awesome new art that enriches my life, and when it's bad it's like "woops guess that's three minutes wasted lol"

I feel like the only reason "Eenie Meenie" by Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber hasn't gone TikTok viral by now is because the chorus has the word "shawty" in it.

The close I get to the age of 30, the more strongly I feel that "peaking in high school" is one of the most fundamentally horrific concepts in the human race.

Pop music in 2026 so far definitely doesn't feel as grand or important as it did in 2020 or 2024, but it does feel quite... comfortable, you know?

It feels like a smaller & less powerful ecosystem that not as many people care about as 2024, but it's doing its job well for those of us who do care.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

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My 2023 year-end ranking honestly has some of my favorite lines I've ever written in it

Is it fair to call "Ordinary" by Alex Warren the "Party All the Time" of the 2020s?

You know, a wretchedly overplayed piece of stale cheese from a celebrity cashing in on the zeitgeist in the most obvious, low-creativity way possible?