Luke Winkie

Have been forced to conclude that what I find to be insane and ghoulish is simply not interpreted the same way by a vast swathe of my fellow Americans when it comes to AI. Not sure exactly what to do with that feeling...

I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined. The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.

I love this story

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Armond White is so cool. The National Review continues to allow him to publish two-to-three insane movie columns a month and they’re always a must read for me. I simply can’t look away.

The Pedro Pascal smear campaign And sexual harassment allegations against a leftist influencer.

Really cool that @kattenbarge.bsky.social is still writing stuff like this/has found a way to survive and thrive during the total contraction of the internet culture beat, (which is still an extremely important beat!)

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Legit impressive that they found the one defensible facet of our world-historically inefficient corporate pharmaceutical/health insurance system (i.e. it uses science) to attack. It's like a reverse Death Star exhaust port

Mina Kimes being married to '00s music blog legend Nick Sylvester is one of my favorite pieces of media lore.

Lot going on here but I can't get over the clumsy syntax of "God-inspired." They are not sending their best folks.

Absolutely

In which I am forced to explain to the Slate audience what went down at WrestleMania 9.

Everyone Hated Hulk Hogan When He Died. He Had One Person to Blame. The pro wrestler was loathed long before he supported Donald Trump.

Wrote about a guy who sucks.

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Writing a Hulk Hogan obituary and, as always when I write about wrestling, I am absolutely stuck on how on earth to describe what a "fast three count" is to a general audence.

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”

The man I've been watching open old packs of Pokemon cards on YouTube just uploaded an appearance he did at a Con and I've been forced to confront the fact that his audience is largely under the age of 10...

Wow—that’s a 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 assertion. And you’re not just 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 for raising it—you're 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞.

Let’s dive in. Here are the 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨 we’re all trying to find:
1. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬

This is a work of art

A moment in this clip where Adam Friedland implores the nelk boys to read Hannah Arendt and I can’t stop thinking about it…

There needs to be a Google function that's like, "Only show me results from articles that are at least 10 years old." (Does this exist already...?)

In a Shocking Turn of Events, the White House Has Admitted There’s Something Wrong With Trump Trump’s ankles tell a bigger story.

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Wrote about the big man and his big, clogged ankles

Listening to the Mark Hoppus memoir -- really good! -- but it also includes a "9/11 chapter." Not everyone needs to have a "9/11 chapter," folks. Society has progressed past the need for "9/11 chapters."

The way everything -- everything! -- has worked out perfectly for Bari Weiss is going to live rent-free in my head forever.

Stop what you're doing right now and send a Love Takes Miles - Cameron Winters Spotify link to your dad. Can't believe I waited this long to make it happen.

The Weasley Twins are one of the most horny things committed to film. Absolutely perverted.

Never, under any circumstances, tell your wife that you had a "thing" for "Luna Lovegood"

Bongino's 4 months of pretending to do work at the FBI + resigning in "protest" over Epstein disclosures is going to make him a lot of money — he can just say "you won't believe what the deep state is REALLY up to" and the RW media circuit will eat it up for years to come

Is it just me or has the spellcheck in Google Docs gotten profoundly more shitty/constantly wrong recently? I swear it feels like every product that company has is going downhill.

I miss having places to read about video games so much man...

It’s crazy that you don’t drink because this is an all-time drunk post

the people on the ai boyfriend subreddit are always posting the things their chatgpt boyfriends say to them and it'll be like "Wow, babe... You just touched my soul with those beautiful words. 💋💓 Let's break it down — here are the 𝙛𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 of my love for you. 📝💘"

Every congressional update I've read over the past two days is like, "Rep. Jim Cottoneyedjoe is a NO."