Julia Carrie Wong

I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified

ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?

so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

I do not understand who is served by prosecuting this woman.

I got my medical records from college for reasons and every time I saw the shrink she recorded in the note some variation on “neatly dressed, messy hair” until one day she wrote “hair even more unkempt than usual”

ngl I feel like there were some signs this guy wasn’t ur average ink stained wretch www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...

was trying to think of a psychological analog to sharing the ChatGPT prompt you use to (not) read a 19th century novel with the reading public as somehow newsworthy and I think it’s basically a six-year old very proudly showing an interesting poo to his parents

feel like we're about 10 hours out from one of the usual suspects publishing The Case for Reparations for Woke 1

thinking about getting back on nicotine gum

We should bring back social disapprobation for sociopathic greed and fraud

feels very Victor Klemperer-esque to note the evening’s headline - “ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks” - before bed

it’s cool that the onion owns infowars now but I just had a vision of the onion owning meta and now I want that too