Kyle Chayka
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare
"do not use our superhuman intelligence machine to do anything a professional human should be doing"
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"do not use our superhuman intelligence machine to do anything a professional human should be doing"
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"The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence."
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
my new @newyorker.com column on the allure of low follower counts and niche influencers on social media, in a time of AI and bot traffic www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence."
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
my new @newyorker.com column on the allure of low follower counts and niche influencers on social media, in a time of AI and bot traffic www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
my new @newyorker.com column on the allure of low follower counts and niche influencers on social media, in a time of AI and bot traffic www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Seething with jealousy
She was treated to a tankard of mulled nettle ale and a thick slab of pale gold cheese with chives and apples, with a small farl of hot crusty oat bread.
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Seething with jealousy
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there's finally an asking price on the rachovsky house: $23 million. when richard meier was exposed in 2018 as a notorious sex pest, i suggested painting all his trademark white architecture hi-viz orange as a reminder. well, now's your chance
www.compass.com/homedetails/...
www.compass.com/homedetails/...
8605 Preston Rd, Dallas, TX 75225 | Compass
8605 Preston Rd, Dallas, TX 75225 is a single family home that will be listed for sale at $23,000,000. This is a 2-bed, 6-bath, 9,062 sqft property.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
there's finally an asking price on the rachovsky house: $23 million. when richard meier was exposed in 2018 as a notorious sex pest, i suggested painting all his trademark white architecture hi-viz orange as a reminder. well, now's your chance
www.compass.com/homedetails/...
www.compass.com/homedetails/...
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this is a banger of a column from the bbc www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
this is a banger of a column from the bbc www.bbc.com/news/article...
lmao great Shouts & Murmurs www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
lmao great Shouts & Murmurs www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...
I really think it's possible that 100s of millions of people around the world just shouldn't be using the same technology that delivers personalized content tailored to their preferences and moods. ".15% having conversations about suicidal intent"
In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around .07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and .15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”
Here's How Many People May Use ChatGPT During a Mental Health Crisis Each Week
OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effecti...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I really think it's possible that 100s of millions of people around the world just shouldn't be using the same technology that delivers personalized content tailored to their preferences and moods. ".15% having conversations about suicidal intent"
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a particular pleasure to be involved with this one as a member of the KYE/Sam fan club-- I am a huge admirer of the intellectual expansiveness, moral depth, electric prose and startling humor of his writing/thinking, and can't wait to experience that at book length on a perfect topic
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
a particular pleasure to be involved with this one as a member of the KYE/Sam fan club-- I am a huge admirer of the intellectual expansiveness, moral depth, electric prose and startling humor of his writing/thinking, and can't wait to experience that at book length on a perfect topic
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Blackhead, Monhegan - 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105005
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105005
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Blackhead, Monhegan - 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105005
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105005
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damn, really good New Yorker radio hour on @wnyc.org rn. they've got Zadie Smith, @chaykak.bsky.social, Cory Doctorow, these are all my guys (in the Marc Maron sense)
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
damn, really good New Yorker radio hour on @wnyc.org rn. they've got Zadie Smith, @chaykak.bsky.social, Cory Doctorow, these are all my guys (in the Marc Maron sense)
@joshua.stealingheather.com hi Joshua, hoping to get in touch for an interview for The New Yorker! I emailed your app website form but let me know how I can reach you, my DMs are open
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@joshua.stealingheather.com hi Joshua, hoping to get in touch for an interview for The New Yorker! I emailed your app website form but let me know how I can reach you, my DMs are open
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I cannot actually believe that Cuomo put out this insanely racist AI-slop deepfake ad. In a sane society, this alone ought to be a career-ending move.
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I cannot actually believe that Cuomo put out this insanely racist AI-slop deepfake ad. In a sane society, this alone ought to be a career-ending move.
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“Over the past few years, I’ve found myself relying on TextEdit more as every other app has grown more complicated, adding cloud uploads, collaborative editing, and now generative A.I.” In a new column, @chaykak.bsky.social writes about the bare-bones Mac writing app.
TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software
The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Over the past few years, I’ve found myself relying on TextEdit more as every other app has grown more complicated, adding cloud uploads, collaborative editing, and now generative A.I.” In a new column, @chaykak.bsky.social writes about the bare-bones Mac writing app.
wrote some digital media criticism in my One Thing newsletter, on the need to organize audiences online onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/gathering-...
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
wrote some digital media criticism in my One Thing newsletter, on the need to organize audiences online onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/gathering-...
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This is a really lovely piece of writing by @chaykak.bsky.social about the tech that lives well with us.
for my @newyorker.com column this week, I wrote in praise of TextEdit and extremely simple software that just does what you tell it to in the era of over-helpful AI assistants and automation www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software
The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.
www.newyorker.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is a really lovely piece of writing by @chaykak.bsky.social about the tech that lives well with us.
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It doesn’t redesign its interface without warning, it doesn’t hawk new features, and it doesn’t demand an update every other week. “I trust in TextEdit,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes, in an ode to the bare-bones Mac writing app.
TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software
The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.
www.newyorker.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It doesn’t redesign its interface without warning, it doesn’t hawk new features, and it doesn’t demand an update every other week. “I trust in TextEdit,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes, in an ode to the bare-bones Mac writing app.
is On Language a revival of NYT Mag's old, great First Words column? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...
Are You Resigned to a World of Bad News? Or Do You Need Some ‘Cope’?
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October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
is On Language a revival of NYT Mag's old, great First Words column? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...
for my @newyorker.com column this week, I wrote in praise of TextEdit and extremely simple software that just does what you tell it to in the era of over-helpful AI assistants and automation www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software
The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.
www.newyorker.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
for my @newyorker.com column this week, I wrote in praise of TextEdit and extremely simple software that just does what you tell it to in the era of over-helpful AI assistants and automation www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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I've long been fascinated with depictions of NYC in pop culture so there has never been a more capital F-capital M For-Me article in all of publishing history. Plus it looks great!
@dansaltzstein.bsky.social breaks down our pop-culture obsession with destroying NYC:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
@dansaltzstein.bsky.social breaks down our pop-culture obsession with destroying NYC:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
Why Is New York’s Fictional Future So Often Dystopian?
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I've long been fascinated with depictions of NYC in pop culture so there has never been a more capital F-capital M For-Me article in all of publishing history. Plus it looks great!
@dansaltzstein.bsky.social breaks down our pop-culture obsession with destroying NYC:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
@dansaltzstein.bsky.social breaks down our pop-culture obsession with destroying NYC:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
Ed Caesar's lastest @newyorker.com feature is full of amazing details, read it!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ed Caesar's lastest @newyorker.com feature is full of amazing details, read it!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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“Fears of a permanent underclass reflect the fact that there is not yet a coherent vision for how a future A.I.-dominated society will be structured,” Kyle Chayka writes in his recent column.
Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Fears of a permanent underclass reflect the fact that there is not yet a coherent vision for how a future A.I.-dominated society will be structured,” Kyle Chayka writes in his recent column.