Good Millennials (pre-1990 births) were followed by Bad Millennials (post-1990 births). There were two different generations. And I’m the only person who’s willing to say it.
modern travel is increasingly flying 10 hours to experience a slightly different version of the same globally optimized lifestyle.
same third wave coffee. same natural wine bar. same brutalist menu. same sourdough. same beige hotel. same tasteful ceramics. same instagram lighting.
what a ridiculous convergence.
All social science Core classes at UChicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors.
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My experience of life so far:
You enter a tunnel at ~15 & it shoots you out at ~35 & the rest of your life is largely determined by the choices you made & the luck you had in the tunnel.
My dream weekend day:
- Fly to Dallas Ft Worth Airport
- Get a rental car and drive 90 minutes to a suburb
- Find a random slop bowl place
- Eat a delicious slop bowl out in the unshaded parking lot while it's 105 degrees out
- Enjoy the soulless slop suburban sprawl while I eat slop
One way you can recognize AI slop is when the ideas and the diction don't match — when the ideas are completely ordinary, but the diction is that of someone announcing a brilliant discovery that they're really excited about.
Ethan Hawke explains why you can't see how good your own era is until it's already gone
"My kids and stuff, some of my kids are older, so 27 23 and they're like"
"Oh back in the 90s, my son showed me the other day like 5 movies that came out some weekend in 1994 something and they're all amazing"
"He said what a time I wish i lived in that time and I was like wow I remember being nonplussed that weekend
and I remember wishing it was 1974"
"So we're in this ongoing thing which make it really easy to be critical and negative about what's happening"
"Cause usually time is the great curator, time will reveal what's good about what's happening right today cause it's harder for us to see it"
Fuck it. Let’s do it. President McConaughey. Better than AOC, Vance or Little Marco. It’s all a sham anyway. Might as well have an all time chiller as El PresiDENte, ya feel me