Spotify Wrapped 2025 It was in 2015 that Spotify users were first subjected to the digital summary of their year’s listening habits now known as Spotify Wrapped. Since then, Spotify Wrapped has marketed itself into a semi-global cultural event, dissected in the Op-ed section of the New York Times, advertised on the Paris metro, and endlessly re-posted on social media. This year, I even heard someone refer to the planned release date of Spotify Wrapped 2025 as ‘Wrapped day’. Before I rip into...

Artwork by Chassidy Stephenson What happens when there is no longer any ‘food’ to supply the thought?  In 2015, two of Silicon Valley’s sweethearts, Sam Altman and Elon Musk (sigh), teamed up to spawn a love child from their shared hubris that the hard task of making the world a better place was vested upon them. This love child is generative AI, and in December of 2015, OpenAI was born.  Generative AI, which we are now unfortunately all too familiar with, is defined by Merriam Webster as:...

Art by Chassidy Stephenson A few days into moving to New York, I found myself walking around lower Manhattan in search of something I could tack, or tape, on the naked walls in my apartment. I was shopping for posters. I ended up going to a place called 'Bungee Space’ near Chinatown that I – yes – found online. This was the kind of store that, although attempting to defy categorization, ironically fit very neatly into that particular type of space so coveted by those working in, or adjacent...