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PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999
Gen X wanted to party so they invented social media. Millennials wanted to soothe their anxiety with efficiency so they invented AI. What will Gen Z invent?
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BRICK AND MORTAR
AI is digesting the secret forums and back alleys of the internet and vomiting them up into a strip mall made of cat hair.back
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AGAINST HACKS
Don't optimize your diet or hack your sleep. Instead of becoming more efficient, take a nap. Stop moving fast, stop breaking things. The whir of constant motion blocks out the voice of God.back
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MANCAMP
Circa 2018 I started a project called MANCAMP. The idea was to ship sun-deprived libertarians and Silicon Valley bros to someplace like Montana and teach them to gut a fish, fell a tree, fix a fence. MANCAMP has not yet happened for various reasons most of them concerning my own laziness.In the decade since, the masculinity discourse has only gotten more boring, serious, and even vicious. While the progressive left is finally copping to the absurdity of slapping the toxic label on anything that's remotely manly, the far right refuses to pry the baby tooth of Being a Man from the MAGA maw. Meanwhile, the bros of Silicon Valley have staged a clown show of manliness --deadlifting, rocket launches, preening manifestos-- while remaining on the inside weak, pallid, cerebral, annoying.back
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