Ugh

They're trying

Plus: TikTok gets put in the hot seat.

The algorithm is wild

Food is an important part of life. We need to eat to live. It's a necessary part of survival for most living things. But humans have made eating into something of an affair. Somewhere between when we were hunter-gatherers and when we started obsessively Instagramming our meals before eating them, food surpassed its purpose as sustenance. These days, preparing or eating food is a ritual. It's a form of celebration, a way to show love. It's trendy and it's sometimes seen as a status symbol. Peopl…

There's no hope

Bunch of know-it-alls

It's mighty strange

She's not as Oedipal as you might think.

Oh no

A lawless land

It feels like a hundred years have passed since I first watched Mad Men, which, along with The Sopranos, seems to have altered the trajectory of television. I wasn't even 21 when the first episode aired, but it still made me want to swig whiskeys and martinis and chain smoke my way through the workday. The fact of the matter is that the behavior on the show, especially from Don Draper, is problematic. Because it is set in a different era, and I was really young when Mad Men first aired, it was…

Barbz rule the internet

Move fast and break things

Terrible

Also: Cole Sprouse is singlehandedly taking down Big Tobacco.