Full list: [[Articles - 2025]] ### Notables **[[The Enshittifinancial Crisis]]** ([[Ed Zitron]], *[[Where's Your Ed At?]]*) **[[Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI]]** ([[Tommy Craggs]], *[[Wired]]*) **[[We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.]]** ([[Joanna Stern]], *[[The Wall Street Journal]]*) **[[Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations]]** ([[John Herman]], *[[New York Magazine]]*) People will remember 2025 as the year of AI hype, eye rolls and all. The people who pushed hardest will be the first to distance themselves from it. Ed Zitron’s writing this year crystallized my skepticism and then deepened it. Joanna Stern’s article about letting Anthropic’s Claude take over the WSJ vending machine is hilarious. John Herman documented how Silicon Valley started to lay the groundwork for moving the goal posts. **[[The Settlers Bursting Tel Aviv's Bubble]]** ([[Lisa Goldman]], *[[New Lines Magazine]]) **[[The Gaza Family Torn Apart by IDF Snipers From Chicago and Munich]]** ([[Hoda Osman]], *[[The Guardian]]) **[[Why American Jews No Longer Understand Each Other]]** ([[Ezra Klein]], *[[The New York Times]]*) Israel and Gaza were top of mind, but Lisa Goldman’s writing about settlers in the West Bank was a grim reminder of the intractable domestic situation dictating a future without peace. Hoda Osman’s account of an IDF sniper’s distorted justification was truly shocking. **[[Who Goes Nazi?]]** ([[Dorothy Thompson]], *[[Harper's Magazine]]) Thompson’s article from 1941 still relevant today. **[[The Cultural Ascendency of the New Right]]** ([[Brock Colyar]], *[[New York Magazine]]) A good example of why I keep track of what I consume throughout the years. There were so many articles like this in early 2025: Trump’s election signaling a new era, a right-ward vibe shift taking over the culture. Looking back from the year’s end, these feel ridiculous. **[[Drones and Decolonization]]** ([[William T Vollmann]], *[[Granta Magazine]]*) Thank you Granta for sending Vollmann to the front lines of Ukraine with a camera and a pen (and letting him blow past his word count). **[[She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It's a Sensation.]]** ([[Dennis Zhou]], *[[New York Times Magazine]]*) This profile about [[Solvej Balle]] was great, especially in how it frames her environment and isolation around the novel. **[[The United States is Southern Now]]** ([[Amanda Mull]], *[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]*) Amanda Mull’s profile of the American South’s rising cultural influence was excellent.