tanya chen

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”? An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.

Appreciate this essay pretty thoroughly laying out all the ways some of us AI-cautionists feel pinned by the fast adoption of the tech. Either you join to survive and try to salvage the human qualities we can, or be left behind www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Never stop being you, Business Insider

Times are so bad I can’t even chuckle at a classic jason derulo falling or I need a one dance meme

sure she still has her gripes and her personal battles but she says the biggest fuck you to our shared common enemy: oppressive captors holding us down and exploiting our good worth!!!!

Even Beyonce was able to do that!!!!

Not to ~pit women against women~ but if we look at an artist like Hayley Williams and her growth: she just put out a mega good and personal and brave album on her own, literally debuted it on public radio, and it’s her signature thing but she sounds so different and matured. And

That is all #taylorswift #cancelled #lifeofashowgirl #girlboss TikTok video by sophia amoruso

If anyone’s keeping tabs og girlboss sophia amorusa is still on her girlboss kick. This time she’s made taylor swift criticism about her www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AMGGeF/

Sometimes being on social media is like sharing a nice thing ur mom did for you once and getting a barrage of comments telling you that you should actually feel bad that your mom loves u so much because some moms don’t and you’re like oh ok sorry for sharing I’ll go f-ck off now

It was funny to make fun of them when they were just columnists and podcasters…

the fact that The Life Of A Showgirl, arguably her worst album to date (even by her longtime fans), is breaking sales records of albums of all time, should tell you everything about how the mainstream music industry operates

and where the average american priorities lie!!

bari weiss elected to run one of america's biggest news outlets, picked by one of the wealthiest men in the world who has tentacles in tech and media, and who's in trump's pockets. okay! very okay!

I’d also like to add to the swifties post album conversation — EARNESTLY I PROMISE!! — that it’s been endearing and eye opening to hear longtime fans put up a boundary to her money grabbiness ways as of late (but arguably since the beginning)

Oh and duh Bari Weiss being EIC of any outlet. We are entering a phase of let’s pick riff raff star power over anything that makes sense

Olivia Nuzzi hired by VF, Kris Kardashian and her premium nip tucked face as ambassador to mac cosmetics, and Jaden Smith appointed creative director to Louis Vuitton. Y’all are joking at this point

Helmed by tech and AI and the optimization of our human conditioning, we are seeing the enshittification of all our arts at once: film, photography, music, writing

It is concerning and sad and perhaps most concerning that not more of us are concerned and sad about it

Scared To Make A Mistake syndrome

I am today more scared and cautious to express openly, in some ways productive, to interrogate my own projections and biases

But in other ways totally unproductive and stifling my expression and engagement with others

For some, for many

You know what cancel culture has actually done? That maybe taylor can write about in her next album, free material. It’s neutered our ability to express openly and curiously, to make mistakes publicly and learn from them graciously, and to always be scared to evolve

Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.

I appreciate this essay — especially the point made about how “foodie” today almost has a slur connotation www.eater.com/food-culture...

I just feel like in this country and in this lifetime u can make a lot of money or lose a lot of money but we should always encourage our core belief systems and heart operating systems to lean toward the working class

One of my worst fears of this modern era is trying to carve out private time to be a weirdo smoking my sh-t and bopping to my music and being captured as the center or in the background of a viral tiktok is this a narcissistic concern? I feel like many probs feel this way

Can I say? For Taylor Swift and Ezra Klein, perhaps the lack of depth and “getting it” rn in the larger socio-economic conversations, particularly acknowledging how bad it’s been, is largely due to their whiteness and lack of financial struggle

All Too Well (Killatrav Version)

What happens if AI generated evidence is submitted in a trial? And it evades everyone - we know officials are not clocking them or trained to - and then determines the verdict. WHAT IF

Can I say that I don’t like that racial politics (especially among my asian american sisters and brethren) is being handled and discussed by love is blind

Shout out to the tiktoker tell the bees who, in his review of life of a showgirl, pointed out the frustrating all-winning contradiction that is taylor swift: both a mastermind genius and a helpless baby deer. Always the perfect victim and victor. It becomes hard to criticize her

What would reality tv dating be if contestants didn’t feel the need to trauma dump with a complete stranger to forge fast and dangerous whirlwind bonds for our entertainment pleasures

meanwhile the rest/most of us have to sell out to make rent......

this is not so much a personal attack on taylor as using her as the principal example of what happens when there's too much clamor to dominate sales and charts that any artist will invariably produce such subpar art

the only way i wouldn't like it is if you are gushing....in which case i would really really really wanna know why....