Taylor Lorenz

+ Nathan Fielder BoyThrob conspiracies, Musk's courtroom flop, red carpet prom sendoffs, Biblical eating, Trisha Paytas K pop era, and the Chinese app that puts Instagram to shame

Over the past several weeks, campaign disclosures have revealed that California Gov candidate Tom Steyer has been paying hundreds of thousands of

Lonliness influencers, death of YouTube face, Airbnb robot cleaners, Suno addicts, George Santos Kalshi crimes, VidConization of Hollywood, why Alex Hormozi publishes 250 videos a day to social media

+ Liminalism, poorface, Goopified drone warfare, the Oliviannisance, weekday phones, Fable 5 tea, Silicon Valley's nerd escorts, Lauren Oyler's AI boyfriend, and a 24 year old AI guru's cult following

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

+ Inside tea on Peter Thiel’s secret society, doom trolling, Edikted, Streamer U mania, dopamine sites, Whoa Vicky's literary era, GR00T, Footy Addicts, and a Polymarket podcast

This week, the UK announced a wide-ranging ban on social media that will soon block users from communicating or accessing information on apps such

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+ Corporate girlies, X psychosis, UGC mania, a tech swag fashion show, Minionese Idol, Machinic Taste, the secret history of Polymarket, and how VidCon became a cancelled YouTuber apology tour

Chinese dreamcore, Claudefishing, swipeflation, Clavicular's Israel trip, humanoid robot fingers, a tokenpocalypse, the Pod Save patriarchy, why the trillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta doesn't add up