72% of American teenagers have tried an AI companion. Nobody knows what it’s doing to them yet
On the Process of why my stories always turn into novels
The Ancient Celtic Secrets the Wellness Industry doesn't want you to know about Hydration.
The Ancient Celtic Secrets the Wellness Industry doesn't want you to know about Sleep.
In which the author makes the case that uncomfortable clothing and its attendant mandates are, in part, fueling the forces of misery, both its causes and its effects. It's remarkably funny.
I wrote an essay about how larger bodies deserve to exist without apology.
A Personal Essay and Response to the Met's Most Current "Exhibit" - Why Larger Bodies Belong, and Not as Objectification
Silver Lining #1: You're delighted to settle for bronze
I have struggled with myself for a very long time. I think it’s because I am a Virgo. We are perfectionists, after all. I have tried very hard to be good enough, pretty enough, thin enough. The nineties get glamourized, but if you think people are skinny now, you’d lose your mind at the bone-thin normalization back then. “Heroin chic,” they called it. Jessica Simpson, a size four, was scrutinized. That’s the kind of pressure we grew up with—simpler in some ways, but with far less accountability,
no one is born without the curiosity to learn, i remember when i was little i used to hate studying, i dreaded study time with my mom but i enjoyed going to school to learn. i loved sitting in class and just listening to the teacher explain about how things work, i was fond of all subjects, particularly science, understanding how the world worked and the way things are made made me feel like i was meant to be. it gave me a sense of meaning, it subconsciously gave me a reason to live,
The year was 1756, and Bengal was the undisputed golden bird of the crumbling Mughal Empire. It was a land woven with fine silk, rich spices, and overflowing coffers. But as an old Indian saying goes, where there is sweet jaggery, the ants will soon gather. The true tragedy of Bengal, however.......
Way back in 2001 Marlon Brando appeared in The Score, his last film before he died. The producer of this film was Bernie Williams, who passed away in December 2014. It just so happened that, at the time of The Score, I was also working with Bernie on a sequel to his 1985 movie, The Bounty, which had starred Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino was your average American found herself stuck in Japan following Pearl Harbor. She would become the most famous voice of enemy propaganda and the face of treason in the U.S.
A little kitten and a place that slowly becomes home.
In today's update: Claude Got Hands: Anthropic’s new capability to control your computer: clicking, typing, and running dev tools via phone or desktop. Pip Install Nightmare: A critical supply chain attack on LiteLLM (versions 1.82.7/8). Malware steals credentials; revert to 1.82.6 immediately.
They came with fire.
Project "Acoustic Kitty", launched by the CIA in the 1960s, intended to use cats as spies to surveil and eavesdrop on the Soviets.
The hum of the broken air conditioner in the underground Bangkok clinic sounded too much like a failing mechanical ventilator.
Between 1587 and 1590, around 115 people vanished without a trace in modern-day Outer Banks, NC. Over four centuries later, there is still no definitive explanation as to what happened.
