.Ben Wofford with an essential exegesis on the ascension of Joel Kaplan and the shifts afoot at Meta. businessinsider.com/joel-kaplan-se…

The discourse this week revealing once again that New York remains the best capital M Magazine in America, by a good margin.

The children of billionaires had one weekend to give away $100 million. But first, karaoke. businessinsider.com/inside-retreat…

Daily affirmations in the boys chat.

IMMEDIATELY CANCELED MY VASECTOMY.

In dating, the job market, & beyond, many zoomers are getting rejected more often in a week than many boomers have been in their adult lives. delia goes deep on what the new scale of rejection & the rise of the ghosted generation means for all of us. businessinsider.com/gen-z-most-rej…

Just gave a reading to my 1-year-old’s daycare class and they all fucking booed me out of the room that I brought Elmo’s Pop-Up Peekaboo and not Abundance.

they had plenty of warning businessinsider.com/modern-etiquet…

“Whipsaw” has to be at a world historical usage rate this month

businessinsider.com/cheating-tax-r… sleep-deprived with our second kid, I cheated on my taxes last year. then I entered a surreal game of chicken with the IRS.

"Bannon takes his hands off his ample belly and points to his black sneakers. 'These are my prison shoes,' he tells me. 'I wear them every day.'" businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-p…

“Ninety-nine percent of the people who go to college are fucking dumbwits.” businessinsider.com/gen-z-college-…

hehe

best thing I've read so far this year. shattered and then lifted me again about 8 times over. nytimes.com/2025/05/18/mag…

THE SHIRTAIN

one of many surreal moments in Jacob Silverman's must-read dispatch from the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Vegas.

"In the era of the internet, if you have to go to college, it is probably because you're mediocre."

holds up today

"People aren't defending just Maguire, the executive said. 'They're defending the privatization of western defense. They are defending the privatization of global citizens data in the form of Palantir and the massive ICE budget. That's what this debate is obscuring.'"