Ep. 1: Our Brains are Broken: On Being Terminally Online in 2025
This week: A deep dive into a May 2025 piece in the New Yorker titled My Brain Finally Broke- written by everybody's favorite cool girl author Jia Tolentino- on what it means to be terminally online in 2025.
Tangents include: Dune, Creepypasta, Dan Rather, Grok, cursed phrase "the NFT Community", and going to casinos with your grandparents. (It all makes sense, we promise.)
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• Jia Tolentino, "My Brain Finally…
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