This essay rules. So smart, so rooted in current reality, and so kind to a general understanding of autism. Which is a sidebar to the main point but “as an autistic person” I appreciated it so much. Articulated everything better than I could have. thebaffler.com/latest/overm...

Overmedicalization and Its Discontents | Nima Bassiri

The MAHA camp turns to psychiatric reform and the alleged problem of overmedicalization.

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Sometimes I think writing is the art and function of litigating the lived experience, unpacking good v bad morality, defining codes of ethics. Challenging status quo and status itself. What else

We need a rebranding of "soft skills" cause that labeling is both offensive and diluting to a really necessary skill that quietly keeps work offices in tact - if not from falling into a sterile, psychopatic hell hole. It's as "hard" of a skill as technical ones - just more covert and unseen at times

Media - or astute media, most well represented by the NYTimes institution and many people under it - has a class issue. it affects its ideologies, culture, and steering of popular conversation. When most ppl have only known financial and class/status comfort, you will inevitably get a

This shows media in a scramble as much as these events feel scary and shady. The media industry has taken a hard hit and now we’re witnessing the catastrophic results.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?

I wrote about the "tiktokifcation" (I know, I know, pls let us have one more go at this trend phrasing) of autism-affirming language online (I'm autistic) www.bustle.com/life/tiktok-...

The TikTok-ification Of Autism Language

On TikTok, creators freely use terms associated with autism and neurodivergence: stimming, vocal stims, hyperfixations. As an autistic person, I wondered what to make of it.

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I wrote about the waning momentum of Bluesky, the challenges it faces to stay afloat while not compromising on its ethos, and the limitations of ideological synchronicity (even if they are of ideals I/others are aligned with) www.fastcompany.com/91528304/blu...

Bluesky set out to fix social media. Now it's running into familiar problems

Early momentum brought in power users and journalists. But slow growth and a loud monoculture are making the platform feel narrower than it intended.

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I feel like if workers have to take standardized personality and competency tests c-suite execs and other managers in charge of workers should take sociopathy tests

Shout out to brave workers pushing against AI - even when it means compromising their own good standings at the company. I understand having to play ball to stay fed on payroll. So it’s extra brave to compromise it to stay principled.

Hey psst your overlords need you to keep blaming yourself for why you’re not financially or vocationally where you think you need to be so you keep working harder and taking more personal responsibility (and off the responsibility of your overlords) hope this helps

Let’s not participate in the forced fusion of news and betting. It’s strange and completely unnecessary

Can I say. Among the out of touch hollywood gaggle who compulsively put their own image and likeness and needs first above all else I've been so heartened to hear from big names like Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Stewart about preserving the actual virtues of the arts and film-making and writing

Kanye and his music used to stoke so much realness and creative inspiration. I can't believe he has single-handedly and systemically sabotaged his artistry, legacy, and his day one fans. College dropout changed so many things internally for people. It's so sad and frustrating.

I ranted about how we've all become assholes online (free-writing, didn't edit or care about punctuation sorry) tanyatmoneychen.substack.com/p/we-live-am...

We Live Among Assholes; We Are Assholes

It's always the spidermen pointing at one another meme. We are all internet warriors. We all fall victim to the algorithm delusion. We all want to be right more than connected.

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Have we verified the sales and numbers surrounding the reports of alix earle’s skincare debut? I ask only because the kardashians have normalized inflating figures to build hype and reputation

This is a smart observation by @tanyachen.bsky.social, and worth paying attention to since entertainment press is usually at the bleeding edge of these things

The 'bestie-fication' of media is doing a disservice to everyone

Jake Shane's awkwardness on the Oscars red carpet showed the shortcomings of using influencers as stand-ins for real journalists.

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This, by @tanyachen.bsky.social, is really smart www.fastcompany.com/91512917/jak...

The 'bestie-fication' of media is doing a disservice to everyone

Jake Shane's awkwardness on the Oscars red carpet showed the shortcomings of using influencers as stand-ins for real journalists.

fastcompany.com

I've only known Mr. Nice for two minutes but if anything happens to him I will kill everyone in this tiny city and then myself.

This man is building a whole tiny city for his cats, and honestly I think we should give him a shot at the real thing.

Sorry y’all I’m not double duty tweeting you will have to find my other bangers on the og cursed platform

Iran midterms missiles AI surveillance social media surveillance tech oligarchs pedophile oligarchs tariffs rising costs job scarcity decline of intellectualism and focus and reading comprehension mass shootings (still happening!) unsolved homicides (still happening!) what else

perhaps the most tragic thing about looking around the new webscape in our year 2026 is knowing the very habits and cultures started by young internet creatives are now being eroded by shill-slop-flexing-sameness. and early internet adopters are burnt out and fleeing the web

I think the most dangerous lie women were once sold but we continue to uphold is that if we learned how to control and chisel our bodies that it could lead to ultimate salvation

AI will show the flaws of capitalism, even as capitalists are blindly pushing AI. When workers are replaced to continue to pinch margins, there will be not circulated income to rouse the economy. Money hungry efficiency flawed oggresses are helping in the collapse of capitalism

I love my online friends, forktoasteroven69 and hottiethottiebrokebloke. Excellent theologians, both of them

I do think britney's "downfall" (mistreatment on a systemic level) - and the way people diminish addison rae, right now, for example - has to do with people hating and exploiting innocence, specifically feminine innocence or sweetness. when it should have been/should be protected

We need a referendum on what “American values” are in this country. That my immigrant parents, and maybe yours, once so believed in. And risked everything to be a part of.

tanya chen@tanyachen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The fact that our tax dollars are not funding health care supplemental initiatives, or preservation of our parks, or to improve public schools for YOUR CHILDREN. but to ICE and its detention centers that sound like modern torture experiments.

The fact that our tax dollars are not funding health care supplemental initiatives, or preservation of our parks, or to improve public schools for YOUR CHILDREN. but to ICE and its detention centers that sound like modern torture experiments.

What AI can help reporters with (responsibly)- Giving a very general but good top-down summary of a source or subj matter. That should be fact checked. But it helps scour and pull info from across the web, cool Transcribing long interviews. This does save us hours, days even

giving Clavicular press and biz opportunities just proves to his real young men followers (many of them in and upholding the alt right pipeline) ALL of their harmful ideals about looksmaxxxing and why they are perennially victimized and they should be entitled to the same - great