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trump’s world cup karma + gen z hates your name
‘overturn this’ The rest of the world is on their feet for Belgium and the poetic justice they doled out last night. The Red Devils may not be a patch on their golden generation of prime Hazards, Mertens, and De Bruynes from the 2010s, but they had all the smoke for the host nation anyway. Clearly amped up by the political shenanigans leading up to the tie, they strolled to an easy...
Is your perception of sleep quality why you’re really tired?
A UCLA study has built on research suggesting that our belief of how well we sleep has a greater impact on cognitive performance, tiredness, and general mood than how many hours we actually get. If there’s one thing this generation loves martyring itself over, it’s how ‘exhausted’ we are and how little we sleep. We’ll go to bed at gone 2am, set an alarm for 7:30am, and wake up ready to...
HR teams are constantly battling AI generated grievances
HR teams are reporting being bogged down by overly lengthy grievances framed around legal precedents that don’t even exist. Rearing its head on a daily basis, the culprit is generative AI. Have you ever felt so aggrieved you couldn’t articulate yourself properly? Maybe you considered letting AI be angry for you? If the answer is yes, and your choice of battleground was email, you may be one of a growing number...
Is Gen Z earning more than millennials at the same age?
At 24, Gen Z workers born in the late 1990s are apparently being paid more than any cohort since those born in the 1950s. The bigger picture isn’t quite so rosy, however. Gen Z’s early careers are more financially rewarding than those of millennials, according to research from the Resolution Foundation, a British thinktank. It says that those born between 1997 and 2012 are experiencing a ‘mini rebound’ in pay packets,...
world cup surveillance secret + uk boots u-16s from social media
tsamina mina, eh eh, they’re raiding your apartment, eh eh. You’d love to be in the thick of it, sure, but there is an upside to watching the World Cup from afar… and it’s not just the thousands saved on tickets and drinks. The thing about a global event that wraps millions of people up in tribalism and sheer spectacle is, it’s a hella-effective distraction. Trump probably couldn’t point US talisman Christian...
Is Gen Z’s obsession with ‘mogging’ becoming toxic?
Gen Z streamers have brought ‘mogging’ into the everyday vernacular of young people. Is the trend dumb and fleeting, or does it have the potential to cause lasting harm? If your algorithm isn’t full of streamers in their early 20s telling people they’re ‘low-key chopped’, consider yourself lucky. I’ve clearly lingered on clips from Kick streamers like Clavicular, Marlon3lg, and Drago just long enough for their content to...
Phones will soon have a ‘kill switch’ to deter muggers in the UK
Phone theft has been rife in London for over a decade, but Apple is planning on equipping iPhones with a ‘kill switch’ that will render them inoperable if stolen, effectively making them unsellable. The Metropolitan Police has struggled to get a grip on phone theft for years, and as a London resident, I should know. The capital has long had the unwanted reputation of being the world capital of phone...
The UK under-16 social media ban is now official
It’s official. As early as spring 2027, social media will be banned for under-16s in the UK. Keir Starmer is also planning online curfews for under-18s to be announced in July. Touching grass is now mandatory. As expected, the Prime Minister briefed on Monday morning that a social media ban will be in effect for under-16s in the UK by this time next year. There are 10 major platforms in question: TikTok,...
viral loneliness + dating for self-improvement
Recharge your social battery, and your TikTok ring light. Here I am playing games and napping like a dumbass, when I could be going viral. I always associated alone time with being alone: drinking tea, watching Peep Show for the 1000th time, resisting Pornhub. Nothing about wearing cheap pyjama bottoms or wolfing down a chicken Big Mac has ever made me think it could be content. Never while scooping up washing with...
entry level: error 404 + YouTube runs cinema
they’ll still need us to run the AIs, right? By the time you have five years’ experience for that entry level job, AI might just render it obsolete anyway. It’s no secret that companies are looking to automate admin roles in the near future. An algorithm isn’t going to book two weeks off in Marbella, or send a message saying it’s got the shits 10 minutes before its shift begins. It’s not going...
