May Patricia Marx write about your earnest harebrained scheme, too!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Thanks @shiraovide.bsky.social. If anyone out there could use a nudge starting an Admin Night — or wants to tell me about their existing one—get in touch!
(That’s just an illustration btw — my face doesn’t look like that and things aren’t dripping around me)
Addictive design and sludge are complementary forces! Easy in/hard out!
If you have a tween or used to be a tween or just saw one once, please drop everything. @annawiener.bsky.social’s latest is beautiful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Wired asked me to learn vibe coding. I, a cretin, DID! Come for the tale, stay for the actually cool app I built to fight the power! Or at least daylight a sliver of the power!
Then use the app please! Is fun and easy. Link in story.
www.wired.com/story/normie...
Happy to be among these friction/non-friction writers! Thx @longreads.com and Courtney!
longreads.com/2026/06/09/f...
Am write book! Hit me with your awful/funny/memorable tales from the trenches of sludge/life admin, or your thoughts on the toll this stuff is taking, or dispatches from your own Admin Night-like group!
See you there SF!
Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office.
Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.
Five stories that explore the risks and rewards of life's little hurdles.
Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”
Aaron Rupar
The real genius in this piece was not the vibe coding, it was this:
"I began having friends over for a ritual I called Admin Night. The idea is to power through your personal sludge in communion with others." www.wired.com/story/normie...
Can a non-coder really code? @chriscolin3000.bsky.social says -- yes! www.wired.com/story/normie...
San Francisco! Help me get the word out to your friends/coworkers.
I am hosting a screening of my PBS nature series LIFE UNEARTHED the day before it premieres. Tardigrades and bison and fireflies on the big screen!
March 31 at 7pm.
Get free tickets here: tickets.arielwaldman.com/events/order...
Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses.
