just vibes

Vibes are everywhere. Disillusioned Labour voters are “picking up bad vibes”, reports this paper. The Bank of England gets “wrong-footed by a vibe shift in the economy”. In the US, a “vibe-cession” – a downturn in economic confidence at an impressionistic level – was a key electoral issue. Google Maps will not only give you directions, but “vibe ch... See more

Vibes are a field of study that deserves more attention and funding. In the most fun version, Scanlon would be gifted a $50 million pot of money for her to let loose on the trading markets. If vibes are as predictive as I think they could be, she could make all sorts of fun trades. The trading strategy would be something like:

1. Create a vibe measurem

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Scanlon is immensely talented and onto something important. I wish she had devoted multiple chapters exclusively to vibes. Her editor should have given her the confidence to go for it and write the definitive book on the vibes-based economy. Don’t bother with the explainers or Taylor Swift, just go straight into why emotions deserve to be a field o... See more

You know that gut instinct? That visceral hit, that fuzzy chill that shows up uninvited — a warning, or a sudden go for it, even when nothing's clear. We’ve all felt it. Sometimes we trust it. Sometimes we shove it under a pile of airtight reasoning. But it always comes back. Stubborn. Unsettling. And often right.

‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics

As everything becomes automated, as machines take over, what remains — is us. The revolution isn’t technological. It’s human. It doesn’t just ask us to reason. It asks us to resonate. To enter into harmony with the living

The em dash has become an unexpected flashpoint in the AI discourse, with Gen Zers calling it the “ChatGPT hyphen,” a supposed tell of ChatGPT-generated writing.