Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College: ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. [NY Mag]
Why Some Young People Are “Quitting” Music: From no-buy years to dumb phones and social media detoxes, people are rethinking their consumption. Now, some are questioning their relationship with music – is tuning out the next step in a wider movement of self-reclamation? [Dazed]
Man Bitten by 200 Snakes Helps Scientists Create a Super Antivenom [Gizmodo]
Lena Dunham – Why I Broke Up With New York [The New Yorker]
How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation [Politico]
The Tide Is Turning: After 100 days of chaos, I think we can finally declare that America realizes what is happening—and cares enough to stop it. [Slate]
Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’ [TechCrunch]
How the Internet Left 4chan Behind: The anonymous forum thrived when edgelord content wasn’t acceptable on more mainstream social media. Today, it can be found most anywhere. [New Yorker]
When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business: Evan Lee, better known as EvanTube, still had his baby teeth when he became an influencer. Now 19, he’s ready to reflect on what that kind of exposure meant. [New York Times]
What Porn Taught a Generation of Women: It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art. [The Atlantic]
I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal. Here’s What I Learned. [Cosmopolitan]
Young People Are Making Up to$36K a Year Renting Their T-Shirts and Speakers: Rental apps like Pickle and Yoodlize are helping millennials and Gen Z-ers turn their closets and tools into extra cash. [WIRED]
An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers [Aftermath]
Are We All Living Beyond Our Means Now? With rising costs of living, debt, and the doomscroll-to-checkout pipeline, we’re overspending more than ever. [The CUT]
Borys Musielak, a Polish researcher, created a fake passport using ChatGPT-4o that worked well enough to pass standard digital identity checks used by major financial platforms.
The Dangerous-Son Problem: Netflix’s Adolescence has upped the panic over teen boys’ internet brain rot. [theCUT]
A League of Their Own: A cottage industry has sprung up at Harvard, Penn, and other Ivy League colleges, providing nepo babies and children of the ultra-wealthy a luxury alternative to campus living [AirMail]
She Was a Gen Z Influencer for Kamala Harris. Now She’s Running for Congress [Vanity Fair]
QVC, the original video shopping network, is pivoting to TikTok [Fast Company]
Declassified CIA Documents Reveal Search For Adolf Hitler, 10 Years After His Supposed Death [BroBible]
