In this provocative investigation into OnlyFans—the adult platform where subscribers around the world spent more than $7 billion in 2024—journalist Leon Neyfakh teams up with comedian and OnlyFans creator Gracie Canaan for a one-of-a-kind exploration into the current state of human connection.

Throughout, they discover that the site originally built for spicy adult content has quietly and surprisingly become something more complicated—an emotional marketplace where desire, performance, care, fantasy, and vulnerability seemingly blur together.

Fascinating anthropology.

In 2004, historian Thomas Frank proposed a theory about the rightward drift of the white working class. Was he a prescient king whose work presaged the rise of Trump — or a bumbling fool with a broken thesis? Unfortunately it turns out he is a secret third thing that takes one hour and six minutes to explain.

Racism makes people vote dumb. RIP.

A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.

The conservative network goes hard.

In 2013, education reformers tried to help poor students the using the best tool at their disposal: The 16th most popular Ted Talk.

Man, I hate social psychology now that I actually have a good understanding of stats and critical theory under my belt. I swear to God: if I see one more personality scale, I’m gonna flip a table.

The Rusty Bever

• Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)
• A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)

• End with kindness. But isn’t that determined too, so isn’t he saying everything else is determined but we can still choose to begin with kindness, which he’s saying is not determined

I preordered the Light Phone III because my Nokia was crashy and bad but then the LP3 took a year to arrive and by then I had figured o†t how to system update the Nokia, fixing the crashes. I switched to the LP3 anyway and when I wanted to switch back (because my contacts were gone; the LP3 could not read the ones stored on the sim card) the Nokia no longer booted. Long story short, I think maybe I could’ve gotten this podcast app to work.

Complete hypothetical now since I’m no longer on a KaiOS phone.

Echo

The Apple Podcast Transcript Viewer is a niche web tool designed by Alex Beals that allows users to view transcripts of Apple Podcasts directly in their browser, although it is explicitly noted to only support macOS.

The simplest way to capture insights from podcasts. No App. No Login. No Subscription. Just a screenshot.

Some climate optimism was just what I needed today.

Excellent deconstruction of the book that birthed the self-help industry and the deeply insecure man who wrote it.