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The "Friend Test" for AI Use

The "Friend Test" for AI Use

This one weird trick could help you stop destroying society It is good for the bad people that the people interested in the quality of human life would rather do anything else than write and talk more about AI. I really do not want to be writing this – I have

By Stephen Lurie 27 Sep 2026
Recolored image of Jock Jams Vol. 1 cover

We Are All Jocks Jamming

How did sports and music get so entangled? Prelude: Let's Get Ready To Rumble Let’s say you are an alien, perhaps even a Monstar: a creature sent to earth to steal the prowess of this planet’s athletes, just like your forebears leeching NBA talent in order

By Stephen Lurie 28 Apr 2026
Is this what power feels like?

Is this what power feels like?

Is this what power feels like? Inside the Zohran Mamdani Election Night Party The wild diversity of New York packed into Zohran Mamdani’s election night party, but as I walked the floor of the Brooklyn Paramount all of them started to sort into three kinds of people.  The first

By Stephen Lurie 06 Nov 2025
Will Jewish leaders atone for their sins next year?

Will Jewish leaders atone for their sins next year?

Falsifiable fearmongering and the Zohran Mamdani election. Maybe because they’re clergy so bad behavior takes on an fancier form, or because their worst conduct has played out in the shadow of the High Holidays, or because a Satmar sect in Williamsburg went so far as to say that “portraying

By Stephen Lurie 03 Nov 2025

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