The Rubesletter - The enshittification of gate lice...
This is the Rubesletter from Matt Ruby. I’m a comedian, writer, and the creator of Vooza. Every Tuesday, I send essays, jokes, and videos to your inbox. You’re on the free plan, for the full experience, sign up for a paid subscription. ABL! Always be learning. Here are some new-to-me terms I’ve come across recently… 🔖 enshittification - how digital platforms become worse and worse The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok:
🔖 public solitude - the ability to behave like you're alone when you're in front of a room full of people staring at you (source) Constantin Stanislavski in An Actor Prepares:
🔖 specieist - prejudice or discrimination based on species (also: the term that split up Elon Musk and Larry Page) Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit:
🔖 prosoché - the attitude and the practice of attention, also mindfulness Great ideas are always floating past you.
🔖 moralistic fallacy - assuming that an aspect of nature which has socially unpleasant consequences cannot exist. Steven Pinker: What is the Naturalistic Fallacy vs. the Moralistic Fallacy?
🔖 chalked - graffiti made by vandals who lacked spray paint The Return of the Big Lie: Anti-Semitism Is Winning:
🔖 overharvesting - exploiting a natural resource until its supply is so diminished that its exploitation is no longer sustainable (in terms of media, the damaging that the investor class has done to the chain newspaper marketplace) A journalism professor blames Wall Street for the newspaper industry’s collapse.
🔖 gate lice - what airline employees call passengers who get in line before they’re called Why do ‘gate lice’ line up early for a flight? Psychologists explain.
SupportDo you like this here newsletter? Then please subscribe and/or share with a friend. Subscribers get bonus content and good vibes. (If ya can’t afford it, just email me and I’ll comp ya.) Quickies🎯 Kinda crazy that being a celeb now ain't enough - you gotta also run a vineyard, make skin cream, or sell some other iffy merch. Then: "Artists don't sell out!" Now: "Music is how I sell my $80 bottles of tequila." 🎯 "Show me a beautiful woman and I'll show you a man who's tired of sleeping with her." Well, that's how I feel about all these people born in America who complain about it constantly. I need these folks to travel more so they realize just how good we’ve got it here. 🎯 Gal I met tied a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue which is so hot because my kink is having my 🍆 tied in a knot. #soulmate 🎯 A big problem with dating content is women keep taking advice from other women and men keep taking advice from other men. The whole point is for us to complete each other. It's like no one out here's ever seen Jerry Maguire. 🎯 Fun game: Try explaining "love bombing" to any man over 60. 🎯 I shudder to think how many of these things I ate as a teen. We just didn't know. #labtotable 🎯 People used to just leave the babysitter at home with the kids. No cell phone. No nanny cams. Nothing. We just let these nannies run wild. They were probably drunk on power (or just drunk). 🎯 Social media gives us the same tribalist mindset jail gives prisoners. Twitter etc. are basically the prison yard: Better find your gang because it’s a jungle out there. 🎯 The pricing on Apple accessories is wild: 🎯 It's weird how much people who love the environment constantly try to deny the realities of human nature. Us destroying everything around because it fires serotonin in our brains couldn’t be more natural. 🎯 Network TV gave us nonstop sanitized happiness for decades and then we whipsawed to social media which gives us an infinite scroll of outrage p0rn. How about we get a little something in the middle? 🎯 So lemme get this straight: Everyone who is excited about AI feels that way because it will let them fire a bunch of people. But also, none of them actually want to consume anything that AI creates. Is that right? Sounds “great.” 🎯 Gotta admire the chutzpah of comedians, a bunch of narcissists incapable of healthy relationships, giving dating advice on podcasts sponsored by BetterHelp. What's next? A MasterClass on ethics from the Fyre Fest guy sponsored by SimpliSafe!? 🎯 “Go woke or go broke,” they say. But I’ve met a lotta not woke people and I can tell ya: It’s not exactly a glide path to caviar and Prada either. 🎯 "My grandparents had a satellite dish. They were the first ones, like, in 1961. It was like a Jewish one: it picked up problems from other families.” Comedy🃏 I post clips of my standup (and more) at Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and YouTube. 🃏 NYC: Catch my usual weekly shows at Comedy Cellar (HOT SOUP is every Tuesday at 10:30pm) and NY Comedy Club in East Village (GOOD EGGS is every Wednesday at 8pm). 🃏 I’m doing shows in Europe! Stay tuned for ticket info but here’s a look at where I’ll be...
5-spotted🗯️ On Boring Problems: Tim Kreider discovers a middle age pleasure.
🗯️ On the Reverse: Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado recently put on an exhibition that featured the backs of works of art.
🗯️ Trump Is the Leading Man: It’s not that people love him as much as they hate the people who hate him.
🗯️ Are We Sunsetting @ss and Entering a Golden Age of B00bs? Discusses the reason(s) men love Sydney Sweeney over other starlets (beyond the obvious).
🗯️ The spherical solution. Did orange peels lead to the Sydney Opera House?
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