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Why "maxxing" is made for social media and terrible for real life
Let's try to minimize our "maxxing," mkay?
17 hrs ago
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Mike Elgan
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OpenAI’s first hardware device will be a portable desktop robot
OpenAI’s first-ever hardware device will be a battery powered, “humanlike” AI smart speaker designed to compete in the new Attachment Economy.
Jul 14
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Rise of the 'slop zombies'
Corporate America and the wider world of work are suffering from a pandemic of AI-pilled slop zombies infected with brain rot and unearned confidence.
Jul 10
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Driving in Europe feels like a dystopian sci-fi novel
When you get behind the wheel in the EU, Big Brother is Always Watching You.
Jul 9
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June 2026
Gen Z’s AI problem isn’t about AI
The generation that distrusts everything and everyone found one place to converse without judgement or consequence.
Jun 29
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Our consumer culture has us looking to corporations to supply us with relationships.
Jun 5
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Mike Elgan
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May 2026
Google betrayed the web
Google was built on a Grand Bargain with content creators: traffic for content. Now it wants content without giving traffic. It’s time for a post-Google…
May 23
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Mike Elgan
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We’ve entered a golden age of idea thieves and liars
It's normal now to pass off other people’s ideas as your own. Even Google is doing it.
May 20
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Why everybody is talking to nobody
Ditching the keyboard for voice-to-text AI is called “voicepilling.” Will everyone stop typing?
May 12
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The chance that AI will warp your mind: 100%
New data suggests that for active users, the psychological and behavioral impact of chatbots isn't a possibility—it is a mathematical certainty.
May 8
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Want to keep dating the person who dumped you? There's an app for that!
Young people in China are creating AI versions of exes and carrying on the relationship with a digital twin of the other person. What do you think…
May 6
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Mike Elgan
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Want to keep dating the person who dumped you? There's an app for that!
Young people in China are creating AI versions of exes and carrying on the relationship with a digital twin of the other person. What do you think…
May 6
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Mike Elgan
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