Damon Beres
@damonberes.com
Senior editor at The Atlantic, focused on tech //
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I had a blast with this piece, interviewing such talented jingle writers—including the man who is literally the reason Blue Öyster Cult put more cowbell on “Don’t Fear the Reaper” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT Needs More Cowbell
AI struggles to write a good jingle.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I had a blast with this piece, interviewing such talented jingle writers—including the man who is literally the reason Blue Öyster Cult put more cowbell on “Don’t Fear the Reaper” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
There is something ineffably human about commercial jingles that AI doesn’t seem able to replicate; people just seem to know the difference somehow. Fascinating and fun piece by @nancywalecki.bsky.social
ChatGPT Needs More Cowbell
AI struggles to write a good jingle.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There is something ineffably human about commercial jingles that AI doesn’t seem able to replicate; people just seem to know the difference somehow. Fascinating and fun piece by @nancywalecki.bsky.social
“This particularly cursed holiday week kicked off in earnest last night when my father turned his iPad in my direction.”
The Epstein Files Only Get Worse
America is in for a confusing, troubling holiday.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
“This particularly cursed holiday week kicked off in earnest last night when my father turned his iPad in my direction.”
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In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.
America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory
It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.
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Happy holidays!
Sent from my iPad
Sent from my iPad
The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here
Do your parents have a screen-time problem?
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Happy holidays!
Sent from my iPad
Sent from my iPad
"Why is any of this okay with so many of those who once claimed to be free-speech champions or absolutists? Because, quite obviously, they were not." @adamserwer.bsky.social
The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy
What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Why is any of this okay with so many of those who once claimed to be free-speech champions or absolutists? Because, quite obviously, they were not." @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Went into deep inside AmericaFest 2025. Met some Nick Fuentes fans, Watched Ben Shapiro and Tucker fight, talked to Jewish kids and Christian zionists getting badgered by Groypers and TPUSA chapter leaders about groyper infiltration, etc. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Charlie Kirk’s Movement Is at War With Itself
Turning Point USA’s annual convention turned into a four-day referendum over Nick Fuentes.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Went into deep inside AmericaFest 2025. Met some Nick Fuentes fans, Watched Ben Shapiro and Tucker fight, talked to Jewish kids and Christian zionists getting badgered by Groypers and TPUSA chapter leaders about groyper infiltration, etc. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Opinion | 600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Emergency pod about the combing through/making sense of the Epstein Files What’s in them, what’s not, and where we go from here. feat @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social and @adriennelaf.bsky.social
What Is Actually in the Epstein Files?
The heavily redacted trove of documents is shocking, disorienting, and—most important—incomplete.
www.theatlantic.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Emergency pod about the combing through/making sense of the Epstein Files What’s in them, what’s not, and where we go from here. feat @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social and @adriennelaf.bsky.social
EMERGENCY PODCAST
weeooweeooweeoo 🚑
It’s @cwarzel.bsky.social, it’s @adriennelaf.bsky.social, it’s @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social, it’s a million redacted Epstein documents, it’s a good listen
weeooweeooweeoo 🚑
It’s @cwarzel.bsky.social, it’s @adriennelaf.bsky.social, it’s @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social, it’s a million redacted Epstein documents, it’s a good listen
Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release
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December 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
EMERGENCY PODCAST
weeooweeooweeoo 🚑
It’s @cwarzel.bsky.social, it’s @adriennelaf.bsky.social, it’s @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social, it’s a million redacted Epstein documents, it’s a good listen
weeooweeooweeoo 🚑
It’s @cwarzel.bsky.social, it’s @adriennelaf.bsky.social, it’s @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social, it’s a million redacted Epstein documents, it’s a good listen
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Wrote about the Epstein Files.
The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away
The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away
The Most ████ Administration Ever
The Epstein files are here, and they are too redacted to satisfy anyone.
www.theatlantic.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Wrote about the Epstein Files.
The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away
The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away
What is happening to people...
Everyone Wants to Know What Gen Z Republicans Think. We Asked Them.
Twenty GOP Zoomers on Trump, Hitler, dating, racism, politics, the economy, and more
www.city-journal.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
What is happening to people...
School shootings now common enough that two students at Brown yesterday had experienced one before
2 Students at Brown Witnessed School Shootings as Children
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
School shootings now common enough that two students at Brown yesterday had experienced one before
My child named our snowman Max. Hello Max.
December 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My child named our snowman Max. Hello Max.
Great dispatch from the opulent AI parties surrounding NeurIPS by @alexreisner.bsky.social—who asks, “How much longer can the industry keep the ceviche coming?”
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferences
www.theatlantic.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Great dispatch from the opulent AI parties surrounding NeurIPS by @alexreisner.bsky.social—who asks, “How much longer can the industry keep the ceviche coming?”
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For your weekend perusal: An attempt to explain how Youtube ate podcasts and how everything is television now feat. NPR's Rachel Martin, Bloomberg's @ashleycarman.bsky.social, and @dkthomp.bsky.social
How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV
Short-form video is taking over everything (including reading).
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
For your weekend perusal: An attempt to explain how Youtube ate podcasts and how everything is television now feat. NPR's Rachel Martin, Bloomberg's @ashleycarman.bsky.social, and @dkthomp.bsky.social
Spencer missed Ego Dissolution by Ancient Death but assures me he is updating shortly
The Best Albums of 2025
This year’s most interesting artists invented their own grammar and tunneled in idiosyncratic directions.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Spencer missed Ego Dissolution by Ancient Death but assures me he is updating shortly
Mourning childhood this morning because of what @ibogost.com wrote about “6-7” …
‘Six-Seven’ Is Over
Grown-ups killed it.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Mourning childhood this morning because of what @ibogost.com wrote about “6-7” …
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an excellent piece
and yes, the decision to depict the CEOs of AI companies as laborers, while they sit atop the single most prolific theft machine ever created is 𝓪 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮
and yes, the decision to depict the CEOs of AI companies as laborers, while they sit atop the single most prolific theft machine ever created is 𝓪 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮
December 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
an excellent piece
and yes, the decision to depict the CEOs of AI companies as laborers, while they sit atop the single most prolific theft machine ever created is 𝓪 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮
and yes, the decision to depict the CEOs of AI companies as laborers, while they sit atop the single most prolific theft machine ever created is 𝓪 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮
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big day for me. for *us.*
I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
So are you. Congrats!
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December 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
big day for me. for *us.*
Congratulations to ALL of us Time people of the year
I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
So are you. Congrats!
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Congratulations to ALL of us Time people of the year
I’m surprised to see that Disney appears to be bowing to OpenAI here, rather than the other way around
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Agreement to Bring Disney Characters to Sora | The Walt Disney Company
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform.
thewaltdisneycompany.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’m surprised to see that Disney appears to be bowing to OpenAI here, rather than the other way around
"OpenAI has become the world’s most valuable private company under the assumption that it will always set the pace. But its ascendance no longer seems inevitable."
OpenAI Is in Trouble
The start-up is falling behind in the AI race.
www.theatlantic.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"OpenAI has become the world’s most valuable private company under the assumption that it will always set the pace. But its ascendance no longer seems inevitable."
Merry Christmas from this banner ad I was just served
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Merry Christmas from this banner ad I was just served
An entire thesis about the consequences of the digital attention economy could be written based on this post alone
We first started this story after noticing streamer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy playing Stake casino games while doing his "pedophile catch" videos, where he would sometimes play on his phone *with* the alleged predators on stream.
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
An entire thesis about the consequences of the digital attention economy could be written based on this post alone