7+ hour, 27+ min ago  (361+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz Hasan Piker On The Next Big Internet Battle + Inside tea on Peter Thiel's secret society, doom trolling, Edikted, Streamer U mania, dopamine sites, Whoa Vicky's literary era, GR00 T, Footy Addicts, and a Polymarket podcast Happy Friday…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (245+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz The Bounty Economy Is Breaking Reality + Liminalism, poorface, Goopified drone warfare, the Oliviannisance, weekday phones, Fable 5 tea, Silicon Valley's nerd escorts, Lauren Oyler's AI boyfriend, and a 24 year old AI guru's cult following Last week, Pump....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (103+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz An Open AI/a16z-affiliated super PAC is linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts that have been attacking and parodying their opponents with lewd and offensive memes. By Taylor Lorenz & Tyler Johnston But in October, around the time…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (147+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz Stop Feeling Helpless About AI + 'Screenagers', Bottom G, Labububot, armpods, pew-tubers, Richard Dawkins' AI gf, ASMR subliminals, luxury micro dramas, young Wikipedians, The Clippening, & the rise of the young founder-influencer Happy Friday! I'm starting a Free…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (52+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz A pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me Omoggle, grandma watches, rage workouts, startup cowboys, Spirit Air 2. 0, snuggleable robots, CORE boys, Ben Shapiro's You Tube freefall, podslop, and why so many influencers are speaking at…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1748+ words) In March 2025 an alleged debate between Elon Musk and Keanu Reeves went viral on Substack. The post amassed 25, 000 likes and nearly 5, 000 reposts. Even today, it continues to spread. But the debate between Musk and Reeves never happened. The Substack post…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (45+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down + Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront, You Tubers vs Apple, Claude Code whips and fairy wands...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (198+ words) I'm in San Francisco all week for an A. I. conference called Human X. I'm looking to connect with AI founders and anyone at the big AI companies who'd be up for grabbing a coffee while I'm here. So if that's you, get…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (863+ words) Amidst the moral panic about social media that's leading to incredibly dangerous censorship and surveillance laws, the media continues to make outrageous claims about "dopamine." The Guardian has called for mass online ID verification to break kids out of "social…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (221+ words) User Mag | Taylor Lorenz The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial + LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a Kit Kat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and against the smartphone theory of everything Everyone…...