Gen-X guys¹ love to say Nirvana was the last canonical rock band, whatever that means. However, here are some of the latter-day rock acts with more monthly Spotify listeners:

• Oasis
• Coldplay
• The Goo Goo Dolls (!)
• Arctic Monkeys
• Radiohead

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1. I don’t really hold Chuck Klosterman in high regard. ↩︎

The main differences between Trump and Romney’s presidential campaigns were Trump’s greater moderation on abortion, gay rights, Medicare, and Social Security. Indeed, that’s probably why he won.

One reason I struggle to get into any modern fiction is that most major novelists now have MFAs, and so they’ve all learned the same techniques and want to dazzle you with trauma.

People lose perspective with time. For example, Obama didn’t think Ukraine was worth fighting for against Russia, didn’t support same-sex marriage his first run (and only belatedly the second time), and signed the legislation that repealed the 40-year ban on petroleum exports.

Wanna feel old? Trent Reznor is only 8 years younger than Johnny Cash was when he recorded his version of “Hurt.”

I’ve been selling on eBay to try and declutter but I can’t bring myself to sell my 90s Magic: The Gathering decks

Sometimes I can’t believe I still get to text every day about Greek and Latin lit with a woman who walked up to me sitting outside a cafe listening to Joy Division on a Discman in 2004. A friendship for the ages.

One of the most distasteful forms of 9/11 apologism from the left was that there was a legitimate grassroots beef with the U.S. being in Saudi Arabia, a country that requested said presence and otherwise would’ve been flattened in the Gulf War and/or destroyed by Iran.

People will unironically post stuff like “having ADHD means hitting someone with your car and not realizing it til a year later,” as if it’s some sort of flex about how quirky they are

Just realized that Mark Carney looks like Duck Philips from Mad Men.

Finished reading: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 📚

A tough and funny as hell novel you’ll never believe was written in the 18th century (it’s got footnotes, tons of digressions, fourth-wall breaking, and more).

Quite the paragraph here

It’s so fitting that if people know anything about Theodor Adorno, one of the most annoying and self-regarding writers ever, chances are it’s that he hated jazz in such a way that it makes you dismiss all his other ideas.

Very good chance that Donald Trump is the last U.S. politician who has unbridled public enthusiasm for AI.

All the most plausible “AI will kill us all” scenarios, by far, involve it being too dumb rather than too smart.

I’m guessing the Sun City Girls will just never reprint Dante’s Disneyland Inferno.

Still amazed at how accurate a parody of mid-2000s forum posters this is

One reason working-class people distrust academia is that it doesn’t reward work. This feels especially ridiculous in the humanities.

Some much-needed perspective on basically every video clip you see online:

when you see a “date gone wrong” video where the party in the “right” is the one filming, remember that whoever filmed it is a psycho who films arguments with their dates

This is the best piece of art made about 9/11. The backstory is incredible.