Charli xcx talks about how her struggles with fitting in, both as a mixed race woman and as a musician, “allowed” her to make BRAT:
“I never felt accepted where I went, whether that was in school for being half-Indian and not blonde, or not fully relating to my Indian self because I was half-white. There was this weird, displaced feeling, where I couldn’t quite fit into either place. Then with music, being outside of the mainstream and wanting to be in that world, but also really wanting to reject it. It created this concoction that allowed me to [make Brat].”
AI has so quickly sucked the joy out of everything I encounter online. I completely resent it, and it’s going to make everyone stupid and drain our lives of art and beautiful things
Ozempic exists because scientists studied Gila monster saliva.
The exact kind of basic research this Administration would have cut without hesitation.
Breakthroughs like this happen only if we choose to fund science even if the outcome is impossible to see at the start.