Cultural Signals

It’s about] letting go of that character, letting go of the manufactured and serious image, wanting to just make tunes for the fun of it and not having to pretend to be someone you’re not.”

LLMs are word-prediction machines, and good writing is not one of the ways that human beings are predictable.

Searches for British courses have surged following the US president's assault on Ivy League institutions, data shows.⁠

The emotional tension rises when we try to reconcile these free-to-use chatbots with the endless media hype around AI, the philosophical polarisation between doom and abundance, the thinly veiled shilling on X and tasteless slop almost everywhere else

“In the past, the club was a space for connection and emotionality, however synthetic those bonds were in reality,” Yalcinkaya explains. “It’s unsurprising that ketamine has taken over as the ‘drug of choice’ for young people, because of its disassociating effects, which allow you to be close to one another, while being isolated in your individual ... See more

It’s almost as if, in the 15 years since Skrillex debuted, the world appears to have grown tired of music that takes itself too seriously.

as TikTok users begin to flock back to an obsession with thinness, the message behind the so-called encouragement seems clear: it’s about making weight loss mean again.

Being online these days is a sensory overload of visual and sonic stimuli that flood our brains through incoherent phrases and soundbites. It’s no surprise that we’re seeing music reflect this chaotic landscape,” says internet expert and Dazed contributing editor Gunseli Yalcinkaya. “Combine this with remix culture, with young people accessing all ... See more

Last year, anti-tech activist and writer August Lamm predicted that abstention would be the next big thing. On X, she wrote: “I’m calling it right now, abstention is the new big thing; sobriety, celibacy, digital minimalism, dumb phones and religion. The age of hedonistic hyper-consumption is over. We are moving into a new peaceful age marked by mo... See more