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It’s easy to start drinking Feel Free, a kratom-infused beverage sold as a ‘social tonic’ in over 30,000 stores. But it can be hard to stop. Withdrawal from Feel Free is "absolutely comparable" to getting off heroin, according to one woman who used both.

Has AI slop reached the pulpit? It's complicated. Interestingly, Christians seem to have stronger opinions about AI-assisted sermon writing than Jews.

AI writing is everywhere— including the pulpit. I talked to pastors and rabbis where they draw the line. Underneath it all, I found something else: hunger for a good old-fashioned church scandal.

On gay twitter if you post physique and write about your vacation ennui they baselessly accuse you of being a secret racist

I go back to the Bay (where I grew up) every summer. Every year, things feel a little more distant-- I thought I was just getting older. This summer I realized something else was happening, too.

New longish essay from me about the closure of Silicon Valley’s only amusement park, the history behind the region’s weird optimization fetish, and how AI turned the Bay Area into a real-life episode of the Twilight Zone

Theme parks are suffering from the same K-shaped economy that has come to define so much of American life these days—feast for the top dogs, famine for everyone else.

California's Great America, the amusement park of my childhood, is closing to make room for more AI. This summer, I went to say goodbye.