Amanda Mull

It’s very funny to watch people who everyone on this app specifically and individually hates because of their stated public opinions and who they are as a person run into that and go “well this must be a universal experience of using this app, I’d imagine”

I wrote about the Labubu Dubai chocolate Love Island matcha latte of it all. There really has been a material change in how trends are produced and which ones are capable of catching on with huge audiences. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My incident was that a kid vaulted over a low shelf in the library directly into the giant novelty sheet cake that was being set up for the school’s anniversary. My little brother’s was that his English teacher beat her mother to death with a hammer.

For this month’s Buying Power, I wrote about a trio of nascent backlashes that are really all the same backlash: to influencers, to Botox-and-filler Instagram perfection, and to AI. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Mad Men is a show about how it’s actually a great burden to be hot

I have known David for a really long time at this point and still I am surprised by how much he can find out with a laptop and wifi and no employer

Lugged a book all the way to work on the train with the belief that I'd read on the way home and then they drop this

I am not always great at this but one thing I have learned from years spent trying to communicate my opinion online is that your experience improves immeasurably if you can just say "oops my bad" when you're wrong and when you can give up the dream of being perfectly understood when you're right

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult