[SIC] Day 430

Vol. 4, No. 10. Unlocked. 🔓

[SIC] Day 430

Reviewing

• The Year in Slop. This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment / The New Yorker

• The 20 Worst Things On The Internet In 2025 / Garbage Day

Psychologies

• Corollary: The Shock IS the System. The Establishment is Transgressive, The Counterculture is Relatively Tame / Cross Current

• Apropos: Why We Should All Be Worried About “Crusadercore” / Hyperallergic

• The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charlie Munger / Ritzholtz

• Related: Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? / The New Yorker

Consumptionary

• Speaking of dissonance: A $600 Suckling Pig? Wagyu for All? On Menus, It’s a New Gilded Age. In Manhattan and across the country, restaurants are trotting out ever-pricier dishes and luxury upgrades / NYT

• Maybe time, then, for The years’s best new snacks / Takeout

Moving Media

• The Ringer picked the best film shots of 2025 / The Ringer

• Golf Wang’s Marty Supreme Collection Is Next-Level Movie Merch / Hypebeast

• How brands earn cultural currency: Use tension to capture attention / The Sociology of Business

Let’s Have It

• Tension Corollary: This Dance Party Has Everything. (It’s at a Supermarket.) / NYT

• Speaking of having it all: Deadlifting in Your Nineties. In “Strong Grandma” An elderly powerlifter trains for competition, in Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s short documentary / The New Yorker

• The Happiest Man in Music. Zane Lowe has made a career out of relentless positivity. Is there anything he doesn’t like? / The Atlantic

Careering

• Less happy: BofA had one of those “reply all” epidemics that caused its Outlook to crash / IG

• More corporate shenanigans: Ben & Jerry’s cofounder says Magnum is ‘destroying’ the ice cream brand / QZ

• Corollary? Most of world’s largest wooden structure to be burned as “chips for fuel” / Dezeen

Business Art

• More ‘recycling’: Gustaf Westman creates chunky 3D-printed shelves based on interlocking puzzles / Dezeen

• Also ‘modular’: In 2025, new ‘independent and nimble’ art fairs began redrawing the market map / The Art Newspaper

• Do Artists Make Better Dealers? / Artnet

[SIC] Day 430