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29 June
From one piece The generic style of AI web design 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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this kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.
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Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.Their words
You have to work very hard, against a lot of friction, to get anything remotely original out of AI.
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AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.Their words
If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.
12 June
From one piece Everything on the internet is a "show" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Social media no longer works for writers to reach an audience; newsletters are a better channel.Their words
As discussed, social media doesn't work for writers anymore. Newsletters are way better.
Everything on the internet is a "show"kylechayka.substack.com
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Most digital creators are converging on parasocial 'show' formats built to gather and monetize audiences.Their words
This is the "show": everyone is trying to build parasocial multimedia franchises that gather audiences, and then sell ads, or subscriptions, or spon con on them.
Everything on the internet is a "show"kylechayka.substack.com
28 May
From one piece RIP Millennial lifestyle brands 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
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The globalization of generative AI models and tools has caused a kind of leveling, as any aspiring creator anywhere can work in the same visual idioms.
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"Slop" is fast becoming the central metaphor for the cultural output of the late twenty-twenties.
26 March
From one piece Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.Their words
Another conclusion might be that the online ecosystem has become so polluted-so fragmented, deceptive, overstimulating, ersatz-that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
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Tech's embrace of 'taste' is an attempt to dress anti-humanist technology in humanist branding.Their words
We might call what's going on now "taste-washing," an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
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AI companies promote themselves around 'taste' because their products are unappealing outside tech circles.Their words
A.I. companies need to associate themselves with taste precisely because their tools are not very palatable, much less cool, to anyone outside of Silicon Valley.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
27 August 2025
From one piece How to survive a TikTok hit song 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's very relatable; the internet is so toxic but we kind of have no choice but to interact with it if we want to be heard as musicians / writers / artists / citizens.
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The band told me about the pressure of creating content in order to promote their music and the ways in which the audience now has power over how songs sound.
20 August 2025
From one piece Labubus and the brainrot aesthetic 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.
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I think this slop-adjacent realm of dupe products and Instagrammable potions points to our increasingly desperate need to manipulate our own images, and an acceptance of the fact that we're kind of hybridized monsters ourselves in this post-A.I. human-machine moment
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But the underlying ideology is familiar from Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg's dictum to "move fast and break things" and replace the messily human with frictionless technology, built by elite engineers who are supposed to know better than anyone else.
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From one piece 'Filterworld' explores how social media algorithms 'flatten' our culture (Fresh Air, NPR) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Fashion is for saying something about yourself, not for conforming to a data-driven standard.Their words
distorting the purpose of fashion, which is actually to communicate something about yourself, not to conform to some data-driven standard.
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My feeling is that algorithmic feeds and recommendations have kind of guided us into conforming to each other and kind of having this homogenization of culture where we all accept the average of what everyone's doing.
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taste gets a bad rap sometimes as something that can be pretentious or elitist, but I think we all have taste.
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The VulnerablesTheir words
Sigrid Nunez's novel The Vulnerables: Nunez's most famous novel, The Friend, was what you get when you take autofiction from a well-established NYC writer and add a big, friendly dog.
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Family MealTheir words
Bryan Washington's novel Family Meal: Bryan is the great millennial fiction writer of food, among many other talents. His descriptions of cooking and meals are fantastically rich, as much for the food itself as for the social and emotional exchange involved.
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Stay TrueTheir words
Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True: This book is now out in paperback, and you probably don't need me recommending it (it won a Pulitzer), but it is fantastic.
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ZojirushiTheir words
Turn on the rice cooker for normal or quick cooking (I have a Zojirushi, either setting works).
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