Taylor Lorenz

Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk. But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk. Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right

SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.

I think one big impediment to this is that Substack offers far and away the best publishing/analytics tools. I've been on Patreon a few months now and it's shocking that the company can function, they don't even show you the most basic revenue breakdowns! Wish we had better platform offerings

Andrew Cuomo is going all in on MAGA influencers, ghost posts, Bestie Epstein, Gen Z's 'going out top,' Razzlekhan released, anti-facial recognition glasses, a new streamer award show, Eric Adams on Ziwe, goth girl autumn, real estate's slop era, and MORE in today's newsletter!!

Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court, and MORE in today's newsletter

Oh dear!!

CDC numbers show teen girls, especially those w drug/alcohol abusing parents, have LOWER rates of suicide & self-harm the MORE they use social media, once again showing that the entire anti social media panic underpinning phone bans harms young ppl/girls mikemales.substack.com/p/ill-consid...

10 things that will get you labeled as a terrorist by the government, Taliban influencers, H00pify's Airbnb fiasco, statue-maxxing, MrBeast banking, Cava's dating show, Heineken vs AI, ByteDance's chatbot, an intimacy coordinator film festival-- and MORE in today's newsletter!

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.