Morgan Clendaniel
@mclendaniel.bsky.social
Digital executive editor at Fast Company
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In the past two months, two companies have launched controversial print ad campaigns in the NYC subway system. It begs the question: Why are brands trying to piss you off? f-st.co/WeSJLf5
Why so many brands want to piss you off
Nucleus IVF testing, Friend AI, American Eagle: We're in a 'quiet part out loud' era, and guess what? It's working.
f-st.co
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In the past two months, two companies have launched controversial print ad campaigns in the NYC subway system. It begs the question: Why are brands trying to piss you off? f-st.co/WeSJLf5
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season
Was recently driving with a Republican who said they would never buy a car that beeped at you for not having your seat belt on and I was like “well I don’t think you’re buying a car then” but I guess they’re having the last laugh.
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Was recently driving with a Republican who said they would never buy a car that beeped at you for not having your seat belt on and I was like “well I don’t think you’re buying a car then” but I guess they’re having the last laugh.
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[the hold steady voice]
They’re getting rid of the Frank Sinatra music at the dancing fountain in Las Vegas. At the Bellagio casino. And they’re replacing it with Jelly Roll. They’re going to make the water red, white, and blue. And every night they’ll pick one kid to go into the fountain and wave. I’ll be there. Will you?
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
[the hold steady voice]
No one can ever remember this guy's name
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
No one can ever remember this guy's name
This is happening in every corner of "content creation" and I don't understand why the people who are letting it happen aren't able to see the two steps ahead to how it will eventually also collapse the audience for their AI business.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is happening in every corner of "content creation" and I don't understand why the people who are letting it happen aren't able to see the two steps ahead to how it will eventually also collapse the audience for their AI business.
It remains fascinating that a cabinet secretary's (alleged) extramarital affair has been salacious national news again for several weeks and as far as I can tell, he has not been asked about it at all—after getting no questions about it during his confirmation hearings?
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It remains fascinating that a cabinet secretary's (alleged) extramarital affair has been salacious national news again for several weeks and as far as I can tell, he has not been asked about it at all—after getting no questions about it during his confirmation hearings?
Very simmilar contours to how MAHA/wellness content thrives on these platforms by blasting people with health and food pessimism.
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Very simmilar contours to how MAHA/wellness content thrives on these platforms by blasting people with health and food pessimism.
Just a few hours in and my child has already gone largely feral. A mere 168 hours until school starts again.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Just a few hours in and my child has already gone largely feral. A mere 168 hours until school starts again.
Funny contrast, a great lesson in how much the actual “being a good politician” part of politics matters.
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Funny contrast, a great lesson in how much the actual “being a good politician” part of politics matters.
REALITY BITES (1994)
one thing I have come to believe, as someone who grew up deeply skeptical of the "authentic expression / sold out" dichotomy is that however true or false it was objectively, the taboo on "selling out" was societally load-bearing
Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
REALITY BITES (1994)
I did recently get a head injury that erased the previous 48 hours of my memory, so yes, happy to offer some tips to any disturbed readers.
Is there a head injury I could hypothetically give myself to unread that
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I did recently get a head injury that erased the previous 48 hours of my memory, so yes, happy to offer some tips to any disturbed readers.
If you rest more than 5 minutes between sets in the gym you should go to jail, thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you rest more than 5 minutes between sets in the gym you should go to jail, thank you for your attention to this matter.
Imagine being Bill Cassidy and having to go about your day after being embarrassed like this day after day (not to mention not knowing you were going to be embarrassed like this from the get-go).
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Imagine being Bill Cassidy and having to go about your day after being embarrassed like this day after day (not to mention not knowing you were going to be embarrassed like this from the get-go).
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i talked to three deepfake experts about those AI anti-Mamdani videos. here's what they said:
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
New anti-Mamdani AI videos and the deepfake generation of astroturfing
'In the last election cycle, hiring human influencers to spread a particular message was all the rage. Now, teams don't even need those personalities.'
www.fastcompany.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
i talked to three deepfake experts about those AI anti-Mamdani videos. here's what they said:
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
You’ll know ChatGPT has gotten really smart when it knows which voice is the perfect one to answer each individual question. I can’t have ScarJo flirting with me all the time!
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You’ll know ChatGPT has gotten really smart when it knows which voice is the perfect one to answer each individual question. I can’t have ScarJo flirting with me all the time!
So annoying when a guest comes to your house a reads your kid a book that you've been secretly abridging to make bedtime go faster and they reveal there are whole parts that have been missing the whole time.
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So annoying when a guest comes to your house a reads your kid a book that you've been secretly abridging to make bedtime go faster and they reveal there are whole parts that have been missing the whole time.
Unclear why there seems to be no repercussions yet from Harvard for Elisa New? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Unclear why there seems to be no repercussions yet from Harvard for Elisa New? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
An interesting bit of juicelessness is that Trump is constantly saying the U.S. is “HOTTEST” COUNTRY and it hasn’t become a meme-ified catch phrase at all.
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
An interesting bit of juicelessness is that Trump is constantly saying the U.S. is “HOTTEST” COUNTRY and it hasn’t become a meme-ified catch phrase at all.
Pretty funny to not force Alan Garber out of the presidency for letting this happen after what you forced Claudine Gay out for.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Pretty funny to not force Alan Garber out of the presidency for letting this happen after what you forced Claudine Gay out for.
I like how the chorus rhymes bait with both obey and then also bait.
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I like how the chorus rhymes bait with both obey and then also bait.
3x bodyweight deadlift two days ago. No problem. Coughed too hard today: back destroyed. The body is a complicated machine.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
3x bodyweight deadlift two days ago. No problem. Coughed too hard today: back destroyed. The body is a complicated machine.
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I'm so mad I didn't think of "selling electronic cat speech buttons to mentally ill people" first, I could be retired by now
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I'm so mad I didn't think of "selling electronic cat speech buttons to mentally ill people" first, I could be retired by now
Overheard a guy sitting near me at the Detroit airport say to his wife “he put up a second post” and I immediately checked Ryan Lizza’s substack even though they’re both in head to toe Michigan gear.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Overheard a guy sitting near me at the Detroit airport say to his wife “he put up a second post” and I immediately checked Ryan Lizza’s substack even though they’re both in head to toe Michigan gear.
Indeed, many vocal AI critics I meet seem to have never played around with it at all. They don’t want to learn enough about it to figure out how they might stop or reform it, they just want to occupy a moral high ground.
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Indeed, many vocal AI critics I meet seem to have never played around with it at all. They don’t want to learn enough about it to figure out how they might stop or reform it, they just want to occupy a moral high ground.