Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
21st century privacy : Why do teens have so many randos on Find My Friends? Do CCTVs work? Who ought we most fear surveillance from: corporations, the government, or each other? Should I tell Claude my secrets? Should I use a period tracking app? How much will people trade privacy for safety and convenience? What is being lost, and how might we... See more
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Any avid self-deprecator immediately understands this logic: if we believe that the worst version of ourselves is the true one, weâre protected from being ambushed by our own inadequacy. Better to overestimate our flaws than to fail to see them in the first place. But this strategy is fundamentally isolating, leading us to create a brittle carapace... See more
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Whether it be sex with exes, dirty rhyme schemes, or being hot, a clown, or the other woman, Carpenterâs surprisingly long career has been seriously devoted to never taking things too seriously. With an SNL appearance on the horizon, and her airy track looking to be the inescapable song of summer â on Friday, May 17, Carpenter released an âEspresso... See more
Sabrina Carpenterâs âEspresso,â the song of summer, explained
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman âą Thinking, Fast and Slow
Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell âą 31 Jul 2025
When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photography (the tagline was, if I remember, âThe future of art but we donât give a fuckâ). I think that was the first self-made project I put out into the world, and it taught me one of the most important
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Sip your coffee in peace
We usually pair coffee with speed-of-light emailing. But it goes better with: porches, stoops, sidewalks, parks, friends, dog walks, phone calls, books, newspapers.
We usually pair coffee with speed-of-light emailing. But it goes better with: porches, stoops, sidewalks, parks, friends, dog walks, phone calls, books, newspapers.
The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again
âHot girl foodâ is about a sense of romanticizing simplicity; like the act of cracking open a can of smoked fish, âhot girl foodâ is seemingly effortless. But of course, even the things that are portrayed to us as âeffortlessâ require effort; this is the myth of âno makeupâ makeup, or the âeffortless dinner partyâ that can be flung together with... See more