Kyle Chayka

yes!!!

I'm back from parental leave for a while; if you emailed or messaged me in the last ~3 mos please try again!

Bienvenue dans l’ère de la transe consumériste : galette cookie, mini-Labubu et « charms » de chaussure Portée par les réseaux sociaux et des engouements aussi massifs que passagers, la consommation est entrée dans un stade épidémique. Qu’il s’agisse d’acheter une barquette de riz et de poulet, de mange...

fraise géante, labubu miniature et tasty crousty 🍓
pour @lemonde.fr, avec l'éclairage de @chaykak.bsky.social

Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB

The Year in Slop This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.

This was the year that AI-generated images and videos became, sometimes, indistinguishable from real ones. But as @chaykak.bsky.social writes, “if 2025 marked the mainstreaming of slop, it also ushered in an accompanying slop backlash.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

check it out

For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.

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The Year in Slop This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.

THE YEAR IN SLOP, 12 beautiful months of 2025 AI garbage, from the viral to the violent, the random to the racist www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

Why Video Podcasts Multiplied Beyond the Man Cave Whether you’re a pundit, a politician, or an A-list comedian, the best media strategy these days is a D.I.Y. stage set and a microphone.

I wrote a @newyorker.com column on 2025 as the year of video podcasts and multimedia pundit personality cults, faces, voices, outfits, and all www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

a pleasure to be put in the same sentence as Yanis!

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by David Ostow. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.

I love that anyone called in about this topic!

I do not think that!!

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American.

very very good @kevinlozano.bsky.social review www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

WNYC from this morning!

A Holiday Gift Guide: The Newest, Strangest Gadgets and Apps Our columnist on digital culture suggests technology—or anti-technology technology—to give this holiday season.

From mini projector to an anti-technology app subscription, @chaykak.bsky.social breaks down the newest, strangest gadgets and apps to get your tech-savvy loved ones this holiday season. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aLVJfw

I bet it is available around the globe! try alibaba haha

I'm on the Brian Lehrer Show later! Discussing this AI music piece www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

the patron saint of my @newyorker.com gadget / tech gift guide is the $18 Swype disposable touchscreen vape with weather and social notifications, which makes for a great stocking stuffer www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...

People coming to bluesky because twitter is broke

Cloudflare's outage seems... bad? X, ChatGPT, multiple other sites down

It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.

''As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet...''
by @chaykak.bsky.social
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I do not dream of weeknight meals

then you have to think: the writer of this article has documented a small slice of reality; what do I, a human with a brain, think about the material that has been presented to me? the result of that process is your opinion, which is different from the article.

here's the thing, guys — you have to read the whole article, all of the words. i know it's hard

ah the old "if you don't say it's bad you must think it's good"

That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I. Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.

for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter