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chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: [email protected]. Ava is a sloth cake.
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shouting into the void, but you can't even look at your own instagram account without a button that says VIEW INSIGHTS blocking part of every image. Where is the Bluesky insta!?

Congrats to @bsky.app and all the users and team that make it unique ! 32m users is real !

Francis Bacon, Figure in a Landscape, 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129116

Top London restaurants are trying to deter “reservation-squatting” and freeloading social-media influencers by imposing deposits and minimum spends - rpt by @joshspero.ft.com @bryce.lol www.ft.com/content/2d39...

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

We can't ingore the BS! Engagement in the emerging society destroying issues crucial. But it can also be soul destroyng. Needed: Strategic & focused content consumption! See: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi... by @chaykak.bsky.social

the UK government should take pity on us and produce a new season of GBBO right now for world peace

Put this one towards the top of your listening. #AI #technofascism #robotics #goverment #policy #fascism #CEO podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I went on New Yorker's The Political Scene podcast yesterday, breaking down the Muskian vision of AI government podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

The next Bond movie will be titled "Time to Die Mister Bond, Handcrafted Artisanal Film Movie for Men – Perfecf Christmas Gift and Funny Realistic Spy Gag, Harmless Entertainment Prank for Kids and Adults, Realistic Vanilla Scent 7.9 Ounce Motion Picture (Pack of 1)"

enshittified James Bond www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...

my latest @newyorker.com column: Doomscrolling is more pointless than ever during Trump 2.0. People are seeking distraction through streaming TV and cutting down news alerts. All social media platforms are politicized, no matter where you are www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

I haven’t posted about it recently so I will say that if this recipe has 1 million fans, I am one of them, if this recipe has one fan then it is me, if this recipe has zero fans then I am no longer of this Earth, if the world is against this recipe then etc etc smittenkitchen.com/2017/10/quic...

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

Kaitlin Phillips on the existence of art advisors: "Imagine being so rich you can’t have the pleasure of spending your own money?" giftguide.substack.com/p/reading-wa...

when I saw this White House X post, I dug around for a while because I couldn't believe it was real: x.com/WhiteHouse/s... it absolutely is

Very cool job

this is amazing news from my publisher and book editor!!

I need to find more shitposters and fun people on Bluesky, any suggestions?

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

I give you 5,000 words on Hasan Piker, who is one of the few lefty personalities on the internet with any cultural salience. Will he ever be marbled into the larger Democratic messaging apparatus? That’s what drew me to his house, the day before the inauguration. slate.com/news-and-pol...

«Ultimately, though, Musk’s push for A.I. in government may be best understood as a marketing tactic for a technology that Silicon Valley sees as an investment too big to fail. A.I. is meant to be powerful enough to rule the world, so rule the world it must.» @chaykak.bsky.social on the #AICoup

Congrats to two of the greats at @newyorker.com, Jane Mayer and Rachel Aviv, for winning Polk Awards. www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...

“Everything that can be machine-automated will be,” one government official told the Washington Post. “And the technocrats will replace the bureaucrats.” @chaykak.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency

couples should share one Instagram account like email addresses in the 90s

These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles

We knew Big Tech would keep pushing Gen AI hard - bias and hallucinations notwithstanding. Did we expect it to be shoved down our throats? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

most things are bad but they let @chaykak.bsky.social do a Grub Street Diet and that is very, very good www.grubstreet.com/article/auth...

just sent out my personal newsletter for the first time in forever, recapping my New Yorker column etc. Social media is crumbling so we need to build our own channels for everything!! it's here if you want to sign up kylechayka.substack.com/p/elons-ai-c...

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In Angel’s Care by Paul Klee, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137617

I wrote this week's @nymag.com Grub Street Diet! Through a trip to Madrid for a book talk, with jamon, tortilla, and vermouth, then to Brooklyn for Surf & Turf & Sky and Super Bowl snacks. Also 100 coffees www.grubstreet.com/article/auth...

Is this the first mainstream AI chatbot Valentine’s Day

they should make a tv show out of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

everything right now (tm) makes me wish we had a parliamentary government where your coalition can fall apart at any second and force another vote..... like maybe tomorrow....... I'm sure everything will be fine in 4 years though

initially messed up the year on One Thing's link dump newsletter today, sorry to the fans onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/taste-note...