Scogs

NYC. Product. Books.

[Scogs @mscogs]

‘Summer bod is over. Autumnal abs are in.’ - my pitch to The Cut because i didn’t lock in and am still chonk.

[Scogs @mscogs]

Hiding behind my futon from a masked killer, when suddenly my phone vibrates with a push notification.

[Scogs @mscogs]

Hanging on to the top line of this K-shaped economy like

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Scogs @mscogs]

My hands look like this so my children’s can look like this

[Scogs @mscogs]

Sometimes I see a color blue so nice I’m moved to near tears. No other color comes close.

[Scogs @mscogs]

@Cibolan2000 I can imagine, FB is a whole different ball game...

[Scogs @mscogs]

Just 'locked in' for an absolutely riveting 30 mins of LinkedIn stalking people from my past.

[Vincent Barone @vinbarone]

A visualization of people having a great day each month.

[Scogs @mscogs]

In SF for the weekend and it can be tough to have guilt-free lazy days here in this climate.

Like o cool I had 4 afternoon pints at Radhaus instead of vibe coding and now I’ve doomed my family to the permanent underclass.

[Scogs @mscogs]

Another day, another viral, partially-AI-written article depleting my net worth. As a young boy, i thought the robotic revolution wud look a bit more like "I, robot" humanoids dragging my family out into the street, not 7,000 word screeds on why my email job is fake.

[Citrini @citrini]

JUNE 2028.

The S&P is down 38% from its highs. Unemployment just printed 10.2%. Private credit is unraveling. Prime mortgages are cracking. AI didn’t disappoint. It exceeded every expectation.

What happened?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/JzzwCrbJgS

[Scogs @mscogs]

When did everyone start flying with the windows down. 7:30 flight you’d think it was 4am. Im on the night bus in the sky. Wake up people let me read.

[Scogs @mscogs]

Jesters on this plane snoozemaxxing, while I’m watching the latest Katheryn Bigelow on my iPad™️…built different I guess…

[Scogs @mscogs]

I think that the planet least spoken in the English language is Venus.

No one talks about it. Saturn is a horoscope thing. Elon loves Mars. Pluto is a punchline.

Someone just said Venus and stopped me in my tracks. It was like hearing an ancient tune whistled in a dense woods.

[Boots, 'with the fur' @afraidofwasps]

"Duhh I couldn't understand any of Bad Bunny's lyrics" Oh well did U consider that music begins where the possibilities of language end? Dumb ass. To which speech can give no utterance? 😂 And it clothes experience with a power words cannot impart? 😭 Dumb ass 🫵

[Scogs @mscogs]

Plan to sell a book to A24:
Create plot that hits on horny, rich, and sad

[Duffyevsky ☦ @TheIllegit]

Right-wing art doesn't exi-

[Scogs @mscogs]

The characters in Industry are ludicrously intellectual this season - a character ad-libbing into a work call the words ‘potemkin village’ and ‘ouroboros’ and no one batting an eye is crazy.

[Avery Edison @aedison]

You’re not imagining things—the plums that were in your icebox are *gone*. Here’s why that’s bad news:

• They were *your plums*, that you were saving for breakfast. That makes this personal for you.

• They were *sweet*, so whoever ate them *enjoyed* them. That’s unforgivable.

[Scogs @mscogs]

Dunkin’ Donuts medium coffee lids absolutely blow any other lid out of the water. You could go on Kingda Ka without spilling a drop, with that reseal tech.