my latest story for @WIRED is about the insane world of tech bro matchmaking, and how they're all looking for "traditional" wives. "They don't want a bossy bitch lady. They want a woman who knows how to respect a man," one told me. wired.com/story/matchmakers-…

The thing about the skeletonification of girl celebs right now is that it’s connected to ozempic - it’s not enough to simply be skinny when anyone can supposedly achieve it. Extreme anorexia becomes a status marker.

The filmmaker seems like a decent enough guy but this completely misses the point of the cultural boycott. It's not about the individual. Lapid's work, no matter how self-critical, is still perceived as a cultural export of Israel. It normalizes a place that is anything but normal! The film's mere existence gives the impression that there's some possibility of a complex societal debate going on within Israel when in fact the filmmaker himself has literally abandoned the country as completely hopeless! It ultimately serves to humanize and center the anguish of the Israeli perpetrators while treating its victims as faceless plot devices; the most Palestinians can ever aspire to be in this sort of cultural production is nothing more than, as Tareq Baconi puts it, "the canvas upon which the Jewish psychodrama takes place".

Robin Byrd, the original free-speech hero of late-night cable TV, returns with the documentary ‘Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story’ at the Tribeca Film Festival. vulture.com/article/robin-by…