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some great bits in this article about LA’s burgeoning anti-woke literary scene. no doubt Nutcrankr is an impressive work of fiction

After years of being tacitly driven underground, the “anti-woke” arts scene in Los Angeles is ready to blossom in full view. “We have been in hibernation. We have been in the cold. We’ve been hiding. Now we’re out in the open." rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Me and the Trump-voting Downtown LA alt-lit girl who calls my writing “retarded”

The hipsters are mad.

Today I learned there are YouTubers who read entire articles to their audience, like a kindergarten teacher reading a flip book to her class. Except in this case, the host runs out of steam half way through my article and tells his viewers to read it themselves.

I can get Rolling Stone to let me write about right-wing trolls, but I can’t convince any publication to let me cover the Chess960 tournament in Vegas next month. Strange times.

People doesn't realize how revolutionary this is for competitive chess. Chess has been perfected by A.I. bots and the top-ranked players are so bored w/ traditional chess that they are rewriting the rules of the centuries-old game to make it more challenging.

Say what you will about Twitter/X under the Musk regime, but the old Twitter would have never been able to serve me a random tweet showing the neighborhood bar from my hometown.

I chatted with Disgraced Propagandist and Adem Luz Rienspects about my Rolling Stone article on L.A.'s anti-woke literary scene. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Like all great contemporary public intellectuals, Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸) went to the University of Illinois, a public state school.

I'm obviously qualified for the job.

Once again, my chat privileges on chess.com have been revoked.

This is 100% true, but it was mostly due to the perverse business incentives of 2010s VC-backed, millennial-focused digital media. The only goal was to get as much as traffic as possible, so undertrained young writers relied on inflammatory political takes.

The problem with tipping culture is you’re all spineless cowards. You can just hit “No Tip” when getting counter service. But no, you’re scared.

All these "Where Have All the Good Men Gone?" articles neglect to acknowledge that dating apps + hookup culture have created a real-life fantasy for high-status men where they can have a roster of women 5-7 deep and drop one the moment they get bored. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…

Zoomers have no idea that Stephen Colbert was funny once. Sad.