Molly

Sitch, founded by Nandini Mullaji, just raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by A16z Speedrun to bring personalized, swipe-free dating to a wider audience. Users pay up front for setups — $90 for 3, $125 for 5, or $160 for 8 — vetted by a chatbot trained on Mullaji’s real-life matchmaking experience. If they're ghosted, they get a refund.

a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones.

A religion of emotive intuition, of aestheticized and commodified experience, of self-creation and self-improvement and, yes, selfies. A religion for a new generation of Americans raised to think of themselves both as capitalist consumers and as content creators. A religion decoupled from institutions, from creeds, from metaphysical truth-claims ab

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Despite helping Trump win in 2024, young men are quickly souring on him: 59% of 18–29-year-old men now disapprove of Trump, and 47% believe he’s hurting the economy, according to a new Harvard IOP poll. While economic anxiety and anti-Establishment sentiment drove their initial support, 56% of young men say they’re fearful about the future. They’re... See more

Lebron James Songs

Lebron lovers are rejoicing in yet another unhinged way - custom covers/remixes of popular songs to instead be all about Lebron and his gameplay, talent, skills, and literally anything. These fans are bordering on rabid with the way they pump these memes out tbh.

But when the stopwatch stops, we flip. We crave other people. Leisure is a hall of mirrors, and only another mortal can polish the glass. A robot could throw perfect strikes forever, but no one would pay to watch. We want the thrill of potential failure. The human tremor that turns repetition into story. Stockfish calculates deeper than Magnus Carl... See more

Her concept has more depth than those theories. I would characterize economic vibes as collective feelings in the digital age. Almost all previous versions of economic theory around consumer sentiment have been formed in a pre-internet world. Until now, no one had updated those frameworks for the age of algorithms. When I emailed Scanlon about how ... See more

While the general rule in fashion is that trends and items begin to reappear after two decades, at this point teenagers — who were too young to participate the first time around and who are some of TikTok’s most ardent users — are already remixing styles that were popular just five or ten years ago, as is the case with the 2014 Tumblr aesthetic.